Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-07-09
THURSDAY, JUNE 80.
FarD4r, jury i.
In the sum and over III refecting knrface Of m

In the sun, and rejecting &rface OF fresh
vegetation the naked bulb thermomeer kept pace with
that in the observatory after 10 o'clock Thursday Over
the ordinary earth surface to l06n the sun In
the shade Of tree Of moderate sze and open to the gem
eral reflection from the surface the mercury 1882
On background Of black WOOL or epveloped in black
wool and full in the suns rays, it rose to 1872
The whole Of DIR al the surface was 50 intensely
heated that the temperature Of open grounds was much
greater than that of shaded places in the city with less
circulation of air Such eaperatures IRE impossible ex
cept in very dry atmosphere and after gcontinued
drought They upknova on the Gulf coast even the
maximum at Key West being 90o and Mobile $40 from
several years Of hourly dissertations at United States
coast survey stations Thnteror Of Texas and other
arid districts towards the Pacific give the highest air
temperatures often of Toto 1852 for days together at
the midday hours.
AT o'clock of Thursdal the thermometer fell more
than two degrees caspin the bulb with both hands
firmly, and rose again on removing them This was
tried with several thermometers and though very clear
of solution the blood is 960, three degrees lower
than the air at that time it novel and somewhat
exciting experiment. Dr. Franklin was the first, in
1850 to remark atmospheric temperature above that
of the BLOOD and to notice the power of the human body
to retain it's temperature while all nanmae substances
grew STEADILY warmer. President Madison of William
u MARY ooleSc, siISii, IN lii9, gives tue ioHoWlhg
curious remark and quotaion
81 do not recoect everto have the thermometer
here Mt more than 95 though Dr. Franklin mentions that
in june 1850, it stood at00 in the shade Phadel-
phia, when he observes
expected that the natural heat Of the body 1869 added
to the heat of the air 00 oud jointly have created pro-
duced much greater degre Of heat in the body but the
fact that body grew hot the air that
rounded the inannat bodies immersed in the same;
for remember well that tn desk when laid my it,
the chair, when sat down it. all felt exceeding to
me, as if they had been warned before the fire. And
dead body would hav acquired the temperature of the
air, though living by continual sweating and by TIE
evaporation of that sweat, WA kept cold
81 have been more particular in transcrbing this pas
sage from the works of tb philosopher it certainly
shows to whom the merit Of certain late discoveries which
have made SO much noise in the philosophical world,
most justly belongs. mem that power which the hui
man well all animate bodies have of counteractng
the heat OF an atmosphere in which they placed For
what do all the experiments ipon heated evnce
farther than had before been published by the Doctors 1t
is thus that Franklin, sitting his chair, like Newton
reasoning on the figure of tie earth, could show what
must cost others infinite labor and fatigue"
We hope the instances may be in which the air
and the earth alike fail u.s. ard persons remain the
only refrgeratng bodies which may rely to keep
cool