Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1864-07-01
---- "abhuminous and wan.
Iikc fat snuab On a CHM q ladY's

Like fat SQUAD Oh a Chinese ady's f.u."
At length it was generally voted that the
| thermometer was the cause If the cancuIar
heat under which the community was fam,
ing, and it was felt that something must DE
done to abatc the intoleratle fcrvors Of the
sun. We will let our contempt rary tell the
remainder Of this vera -iotls history and
point the moral Of the tale.
. At last the owner OF the thermometer.
Michael by name, having duly reflected on
the subject, determined to put an end to
the convenience which his ncighbors were
suffering, and taking down the ,hermonc
ter from the place where il hung b, the side
II his door, he packed it in cotton and hid
it IN little drawer, the kcv Of which, he
kept in his pocket. Nov, said MirtI 10
hi. cishbors We shall have cooler weather
| haze put out Of the way the rascaly Their
| raometer which marked the Temperature
two or three degrees higher c.cr, dav.
and YOU viii be no more troubled With great
heat
The story goes that from that time to
the end Of dog days the good people Of
katzcnwinkel where Michel lived, were d.
si,,ed into two parties, those who maintained
that since the disappearance Of the tl:e.mo-
meter The heat had greatly abated and those
who Insisted that it had grown more in
tense They per,pircd and painted a, be-
weather was almost cold enough for fire,
while other, were positive that the a;inos-
phcre was nearly at blood heat They had
no thermometer to settle the question. and
20 the dispute went on
A short time since We had the means IF
measuring tic pie q; gold py the sales
! made at the meetings Of the Board Of Brok
crs in this city. II was an index of the in
fiation Of our currency, which told how its
volume was expanding from day to iav
The eoll bill, Is it is called prohibiting al!
sales Of gold except n those eases In which
the contract was followed b the instant de
livery Of the eotn.ao'iity. has iusi h"~-
rassc'. " the House at Washington. and
needs only the concurrence of the senate or
resident to become a law. Then there
viii be no sale, "f gold a, the Board Of
.'foscr.. Mlclel viii have taken away and
hidden the thermometer by which we have
hitherto observed TO what degree til. at,nos
pherc was heated. The weather will be
Just as hot. the air as snltrv. the perspira-
't'ii ~ 'oIiousS oit ttclt Will he room to
| "ranglc about the precise degree of the pre-
| valing warmth To form some tolcrably
| accurate notion Of it. We shall be obliged t.
90 about dipping onr fingers into standing
water, wherever W. see it. an to observe
how thinly people are clad, to what degree
they affect the shade, and in " hat ,,uan,i-
ties they consume Ice water
\ few days ago, when the people of the
country had the thermometer bv which to
| measure the temperature Of our monetary
atmosphere, they fell down in swound,
becausc 1t stood at 1915. To-uay, when they
are Obliged 10 go about dipping their fin.
gers into standing water wherever they see
it, in order to guess how warm it is. they
find little relief to their feelings by discov-
eting that il is several degrees hotter with
out thermometer than with olu.
T.. S.--Gan the Post tell us whether there
is still any little town in Germany where
the people are as wondrous wise as the
natives of katzcnwinkc, and where the
thermometer is still supposed to produce
- heated tcrms:'