The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-07-12
TERRIBLE HEAT.

This is a world OF compensations.
The man who has nothing is not
troubled by burglars or gathers.
The lazy man enjoys his laziness as
much as the industrious man his wealth.
The poor laborer gets as much comfort
out Of his pork and beans favored with
hunger, as the epicure does out of his
German wines and French cookery,
favored with the dyspepsia. So with
climates. Last winter we thought moth
ing could be more terrible than the long
continued and intense cold. But now
while we are enjoying the most delight
iul Summer climate on earth, with
breezes like balm and an atmosphere
that exhilirates like wine, the regions
south of US are smothering IN the most
deadly heat heat that makes life a
misery heat that debilitates and breaks
down the constitution heat that RACES
through all the long hours of the sic, p
less night We quote from tie Phla-
delphia Times OF July 18th as follows:
The beat OF the last foul days as ever, body
knows has bven intense, but lew know that ii
has been almost unprecedented. and that the
memory OF the oldest lnhabitani who couo b.
found hy Il reporter OF The Times rumeih not
back to Il period when it was greater. Human
itv has suffered intensely On Thursday, as :.
careful inquiry reveals, there were three or four
cases Of prostratOn 10y the heat, on frida, AN
o. ar Saf1 low lt1 t,-f
Was nearly doubled, and yesterday although
no cases of sunstroke were admitted to tn.
pennsylvania Hospital, gentleman who ougl
| to know estimated that the number OF persons
who died directly from the consequences qfthe
heat numbered at least score, and admitted
that the general mortality of the city woul
indirectly show a frightful increase. Among
children, and particularly among those be-
tween the ages OF and years, the dealt rate
Increased last week with frightful rapidity, and
not less than three hundred ,nnocemts, it is said
"a will be shown by the weekly report OF the
Board OF Health which will be published to
| mori ow, fell victims during the last seven days
to the sudden ana awful al gment ton of the
suns heat. TO give our readers an idea in fig
ures. which, like facts, never lie it is only
necessary to reproduce here the records which
have been kept at the observatory OF the
United States Signal Office in this city. The
observatory, it must be remembered, is one oil
TIC Cooiesl spOtS III fHll DEL pnla. IL Is located
In the lottiest story of the Western Union Tel
egraph COmpanv's Office, at Third and Chest
nut streets, and its average temperature has by
/ experience been found to be six degrees less
than that OF the street below The figures are
as follows:
During 1874 the mean temperature of June
was three degrees higher than it was in 1873
and the higher point reached was 81 degrees
With the continuance Of TIE present heated
term the mean temperature of June, 1875. will
be at least degrees higher than that of tie
same month last year. Yesterday the ther
mometer at Borheks establishment, on Chest
nut street, below Seventh, registered ga de
gre at ten O'Clock A. NJ, 9SH at noon, ana
SO at sercn o'clock p NJ
Now, good friends, remember next
winter when the wind howls over the
snow and the thermometer goes crawl.
ing around away below zero. that in.
tense heat is just as uncomfortable and
a hundred times more deadly than in
tense cold. Let us try to conquer the
discomforts of our climate and turn them
| into comforts, and let us above all re.
memoer and be grateful Tor the great
blessings we enjoy.