Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-06-23
"HIDING THE THERMOMETER"

q The New York Evening Post pertinently recalls,
as appropriate to the history of the illuminated age
of political wisdom through which we are pass
ing, the pleasant story of the little man who
in the days when the thermometrical tube was a
curiosity, became the sole possessor Of that tetale
instrument in little town of Germany. As the
dog-days came on and Sirius grew more and more
ascendant, the thermometer marked higher and
higher grade of heat, until each worthy burgher,
IS he consulted its dial plate, was transformed into
picture Of despair,
.a -- abdominOus and wan,
Like fat squad Chinese lady's fam"
At length it was generally voted that the Their
mometer was the cause of the canicular heat under
which the community was fainting, and it was felt
that something must be done to abate the inolera-
BILE fervors of the sun. We will let our contempc-
rary tell the remainder of this veracious history
and point the moral of the tale:
the owner Of the thermometer Michel by name
having duly reflected the subject determined to put
end to the Inconvenience which his neighbors suffer-
ing and taking down the thermometer from the place
where hung by the side Of his door, he packed it 10
ton and hid It in little drawer the key of which he
in bis pocket .Now, said Michel to his negbbors we
shall have cooler weather have put out of the that
or three degrees higher every day, and you will be
more troubled with the heat
rhe story goes that from that time the end Of dog
DAYS the good people of KatzenwInke. where Michel
lived divided into two parties those who maintained
that since the disappearance OF the Thermometer the heat
had greatly abatd and those who insisted that had
grown more intense They perspIed and painted before
cold enough for fire, while others were positive that the
atmosphere nearly at blood heat. They had no Their
mometer to settle the question and the dispute went
ain had tha r. meaa
the price gold the sales made at the meetings of the
Board of Brokers in this city 1t index of the
expanding from day to day The gold BILL is called
prohibiting all sales gold except in those cases in which
the contract followed by the instant delivery of the
commodity has just been passed by the House at Wash
ngtoD and needs only the of the Senate
President to become law Then there will be sales
of gold at the Board OF Brokers Michel will have taken
away and hidden the Thermometer by which have bth
erto observed to what degree the atmosphere heated
The weather will be just hot the air sutry, the per-
SEPARATION copous; but there will be to wraugle
about the precise degree Of the prevailing warmth To
form oleraby accurate notion of it shall be obg
cd to 90 about dipping fingers into standing water
wherever it, and to observe how thnly people
Glad TO what degree they affect vhe shade and 10 what
quantities they consume ice water.
A few days ago, when the people of the country
had the thermometer by which to measure the tenn
perature of our monetary atmosphere, they "fell
down in swound" because it stood at 1876. To-
day when they are obliged to go about dipping
their fingers into standing water wherever they
it, in order to guess how warm lis they find little
relief to their feelings by discovering that it is
veral degrees hotter without thermometer than
with one.
P. S-Can the Post tell US whether there is
still any little town in Germany where the people
are as wondrous wise" as the natives of Katzen-
vinkel. and where the thermometer is still sup
posed to produce " heated terms? 7"