The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-08-22
THE HEATED TERM.

THE HEATED TERM.
hos'ss' Of the sess~-
"o"oe' -, On q New Plnu-Cou-
verfibiu,S Yer Than Fiuauci., D..an.
atrateds
| =. W. oSs A"ect'e USED TO be acknowledgement
| always spelf 1t with d ana a dash and An n-nut
on the whole, there Is no difference In def Ina ton
between the expietve ciertcaiiy speaking anu the
,xpletive speaking profanely joey B.. ON the
9th sr hand used to prefer devish by way Of empba
sis. I'd as between Joey B. and II. w. D. there Is
little TO Ne said on either SIDE except that in some
resuec,s oey's expletive IL the more emphatic Of
the two. 80 ue copied the phraseo0gy of the one
Yesterday ann ONE that Of the other and ali made
~ a condition nre, sdent of the little word shot,
..vamned hot. ~ an nobody spelled the expietiys
with . dash By any me. Us; devlish nQt." and here
everybody laid o maliclo - stress on the devish;
"hot as 49," and here every '0dy used WORD which
clergymen spell with an and - dash and double I;
'ten degreeS hotter'n -" and hSte sdey put In the
same strong Nimile and so went round the phrase
all day. the PIVOT on which 1t turned being the word
hot with endless variations Of very stkOug and
sometimes rather suphur0us expiettves The truth
Is, the public justified IN the use OF strong ex-
pietige two, Or hi,f dozen. L0wells essence OF
pure cussedness exactly expressed the state of sns
weather; and as to TIM, poor mercury, II went up 40
tube aud abscOnd. Nobody said alt Is very warm.U
which would have been sosurd; poboiv said ~ ss
also Everybody spoke short or did not speak o.
al-words Of two sylables being TOO long for use,
Of liquidation W It was otherwise than financially
illustrated. People whe had never been known
70 ~ 20
point Of view-in word, people Of all classes ana
conditions betook themselves to spontaneous liqul
dalton, and did 1t with empresssnent that denoted
york babe fair to be reduced TO nuids altogether.
penseS single cenner Soobss vent
up to twenty cents, which had been but ten cents
he o and s New armed VITA n &
not Keep ' oooeouid no. n1"s V oSo
AT nine O'Clock Friday morning the Thermometer
had risen to eighty IN the shade, and was still, Like
stocks infected with strong upward tendency.
speaking 1t too hot to ioii is9ily; too hot to
browse; too hot for anything except TO trouble
s Peor q
ity he may have Undertaken TO book--bee pardon;
celestial angels are not OF the same gender a. ter
restriai-he was unable to book 1t legbly, espe-
ciaiiy II he had happened to bend az oil over The
books; for beads OF Precipitation blot badly and
whatever he undertook to record was blotted llle
gbiy IN the process OF recoraIng Was So II the
recording angel ilquldated yesterday as poor hu'
ceaasa upward ia dense Volumes ro the heated
CITY; and for the nonce all New York was
humid. The first member OF the climax was Fri
day, when at noon the thermometer threatened the
ninety and there was no stirring except az immi-
nent rlsk OF beng reduced to liquid form and evap
expressed wish In their bones and get cool,
aud really would have been nothing but bones mad
sun did more than shine; che sunshine was some.
thing more than sunshine, IL was Is II the great
central iuminary drlpped fire-dripped heat, dead,
on the shady side Of the street. and collars when
had started down town fresh, prim and white and
three all forlorn. The had liquidated aud
the whole caty for the day had been one process Of
perspiratdon-a dra-headed Illustration OF exces-
New Workers are patient peOple-padent with
lizards Of politcspstisns with ali Sorts Of abuses
anything. true, That part OF New YORK which had
rally speaking, the remark was, s.Itn be cooler to.
morrow" remark which was repeated so often
fact. But there Is never one day OF Inferno with.
out TWO. and seldom ere there two without three.
hot with H. W. BIS expletive-t, dtas d'IJerno
already, and no more to come for this time
wiS the profound CONVICTION that would he cooleT
the next day, slept uneasily aud slept not at all in
spots shook loose from Notwithstanding |
luxury to lie still, for even lying st could
not prevent perspiration, and at che aghtest move
ment Of muscle beads o0zed from the cuticle and
Thermometer began high and went higher standing
was ten degrees IN excess Of the supe At the same
hour, same date last year. There was. however, O |
slight stir Of wind, and the heat. though more sx-
Cessve, was less SILENT sultry and deadly oppressive.
At four p. n Q haze began to appear and overcast
the heavens aud tbunder-heads were visible in the
By the DOZEN and ps
be busy-busier than usua-fOrging thunderbolts
s s DC
than the day before, because tribe more brpeBy.
The most oppressive part OF the day was from
to have begun exactly where Friday lefi
on. Along IN the afternoon vapors yelled the q
tribe and the heat was less direct. The sun, IN a
word, did not seem to drip fire. bliserng. singing
Are. as 1t had done In the morning; and though the
aS was @ ss psp r os
comfortable. The heat OF the morning was smuggling
uncomfortable, externally felt; the heat Of tho sitter
cesses-prOved that 1t was by the reeking perspira
on that 1t induced rather than by what is trmed in
with less inclination to coup de sotea. At three
O'Clock there had been manifested visible molina
had been hotter than Friday, in the afternoon 1t
one degree ess-the thermometer standing at 81 at
three r. NJ Friday and at 93 AZ three r. . YESTERDAY
Al nine in the morning tue mercury had gone an
to 81, with obscured sun at noon Il
was only 81, with some observation OF the
sun by thin film of haze, and from noon there
q malt In the advance AZ, compared with the pre-
Inc following record Will show the changes in tn.
temperature for the past twentyfour hours Ia c0m
parison with the corresponding day OF year. as
indicated by the thermometer at Hudnuts pharmacy,
HERALD Building Broadway, corner Of Ann street.
1858, 1869. 1858. 1863.
a. 81 NJ NJ: s s $ g g NJ. 3 g
IL M.....,.... SIS oil IL p No.. IA 50
Average temperature yesterday. ...s6A
Average temperature for corresponding date last
year. '''''''N,h
The mercury stood at g5 at two p. NJ
CASES OF sUNsTR0xE.
The following reports OF cases that came under the
notice OF the police made to the Central Poles
once by telegraph
Az twenty-five minutes past eleven A. NJ. Charles |