The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-06-29
The Hot Weather.

When that mirror OF courtesy. and exem-
plar of good breeding, the HIDALGo Don
QUIXOTE DE LA MANcHA, was Undertaking
his Quire, the ever aforementioned, SAM
CHIC PANzA, with certain rules which he was
to observe in hall and at board, in his new
government ofrBarataria, the latter interrupted
the lecture by complaining that he had con-
tracted an awkward habit Of "belching'' while
in the act of feeding. "Thou shouldst say
eruct' not 'belch, friend SANCHO," replied the
knight. In the same way we believe the word
.'sweat" has been long since banished from
genteel society," not having been able to ac-
complish successful lodgment, even under
the auspices Of the accomplished Miss CARO-
LINE WILHELMINA AUGUSTA SKEGGs, who
made bold onset for that purpose, as we are
informed by the veracious historian OLIVER
GOLDSMITH, swearing "by the living JINGO,
am all over a muck of SWEAT Where such
high authority failed, we suppose, of course,
it is too Ruch presumption for US TO think,
even, of aspiring. And yet We know not how
TO describe the corporal condition of one half
the town yesterday, if we be not allowed the
use Of the prescribed term. To say that they
Aperspired'-which we believe is the genteel
phraze-were to describe the facts Of the case
very insufficiently. It were to conjure up "a
vision Of rose.water, by the use OF rose
water term, when most assuredIy there was no
rose-Water in the case. Excuse MS, gentle
reader, we feel compelled to call a spade q
spade. There was NO perspiration in the case.
We s,ceated yesterday most awfully, and SO
did everybody around and about US. Let
those perspiYe who sit in shady bowers, amidst
breexes and perfumes, the waving of fans and
the rustling of foliage, and let the pearly
dew that comes upon their brows. be taken for
ottar of roses worth guinea drop, by Slip
shod novel writers, and small.beer poets
Everybody around rs ssceated, and the streams
that poured down their faces suggested no
idea of anything very delightful either in
odor or appearance. A few more such days,
and we fear not grease.spot will be left Of
" big Richmond LAS our provincial friends
are in the habit Of styling this great metropo-
lis-or at least Of the inhabitants thereof
They must all melt of, and flow down the
cutters, like last years snow.
1t is said that everything was made for
some wise purpose. We do not doubt it in the
least; but still we should like to know what
this hot weather was made for 4! What good
use can all the phenomena 1t produces be put
to OF what use, for instance, are these flies.
that torment us within an inch Of our lives
while we are writing! We are told it Is to
try our patience. Alas! we have no patience
to try. We are counselled to remember JOB
jon never was the prey of flies, in close
room, with the thermometer up to 90 deg
We are told to take to the shade. So we do,
and we find it hotter than the sun. The air
seems to be on fire. We inhale it like the
blast from fiery furnace 1t is fit for nothing
but Salamanders. 1t is too hot even
for the flies. They stick to you like leeches.
and bite like so many distinct applications Of
the moxa. They have not the resolution even
to hy. 1t II too hot to eat, 1t fs too hot to
drink, it is too hot to sleep. it is too hot to
wake, 1t Is too hot to lie down, it is too hot to
sit MP. 1t 10 too hot even to think.