Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-08-28

a SHANGHAI SUNNER.-Mr Brooks IN
his agreeable narrative of a trip around
the world, discourses Of the temperature Of
Shanghai in way to make the victim OF
our American summer content with his
situation.
The thermometer is the biggest liar that
ever lived 1t is only ninety five or
ninety ght degrees here at night and one
hundred or one hundred and three degrees
By day, aud yet it Is hotter intensely, hot
ter, than | have felt it in the Napa JCal-
ifornia1 Valley, coming from the Geysers
in July, at one hundred and eighteen
degrees, or on the sands OF Egypt Their
mometers, Therefore | have no hesitation in
but In spirit, in substance In cal0ric al
least. am sufocating here | cannot
get breath enough What would [ give
TOR a puff, and how much more tor
.typhoon, even if destructive one ? There
is no air, night or day and if possible, it Is
hotter by night than by day. There Is no
sleep in this oven bed, and il there We're
the mosquitoes would eat YOU UP. if YOU
did not throw over you the well-reticulated
net. \ mattress Is unendurable a
mat has to be laid on that, or your per
-piration would stick you TO the mattress.
Never. never. Yankee pilgrim, enter here
in June, July, or August They say YOU
can breathe, and live and sleep, in all the
other months of the year but if you will
be such a fool as | am, and come. drink.
and drink deep, not exactly of the Pierian
spring-n0t watsr, for hat Is poison here
but cleret, hook, champagne, porter,
beer, and eat ice, Snd little else, except
bread and meat. Shanghai is nearly in
the latitude Of Northern Florida but
amid low lands rs it is. on which are
boundie,s fields of cotton. near the mouth
Of the great Haug-tze, doubtless. the eli
mate is ike that Of New Orleans, on the
Mississippi, with the thermometer ranging
higher. What [ know for q certainty Is.
YOU will never catch me here again in July.
If there be any way of getting around it,
or over It, or under it,
The foreign residents Of Shanghai suffer
not q little this season OF the year but
here, then, they must stay, for now Is the
season Of"tea' and "silk," the great ex-
ported staples of the country In winter
they can play, but never in the summer.
They prepare themselves for being roasted
as well as posSible-not exacnlY in our
Georgia, or the japanese, natural costome,
but as near TO it, as civilization will permit
They 20 without shirts, to begin with \
white flannel trock-coat. closely fitting to
the body, somewhat lancitully made with
white linen trowscrs, Is the costume. No
dIckey could stand the drippings OF per-
spiratiOn here over FIVE minutes, if one
They live thus, and do business with
punka or wind flap, flying over then, ever
kept going b6 a haltsleeping eoolie Chi
naman.l We breakfast by punkas We dine
by punkas Heaven giving u no breezes
men raise as many artificial winds a. pos
sible No one ventures out, il it can be
helped, till the sun is going down. \
great two-story, long tailed pith hat Is then
sported They ride out toward sunset in
traps, low-hung carriages, drawn by one
pony, or In a California made carriage.
with California horses, where that luxury
can De afforded or they 20 in sedan
chairs, or are wheeled by a Chinaman,
two at time, on a wheel-barrow, dos-cheap
for such rides as that-the vilest invention,
by the way, for going, have ever seen
yet worse, if possible, than The japanese
cango-