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

This is world OF compensations.
The man who has nothing is not
troubled by burglars or tax-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
full 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 rages
through all the long hours of the sic. p
less night. We quote from the Phia-
delphia Times OF July 2Sth as follows
The heat OF the last four days as every body
knows has bven intense, but lew know that il
has been almost unprecedented, and that the
memory OF the oldest lnhabitan, who could bt
found ny Il reporter OF The Times rlMneih not
back to Il period when it was greater Humans
ltv has suffered intensely. On Thursday, as Il
careful inquiry reveals, there were three or fuul
cases of prostration 10y the heat, on Frida, an
equal or iargrr number, OH Saturday the list
Was nearly doubled, and yesterday, although
no cases Of SunstrOke were admitted to tn.
Pennsylvania Hospital, gentleman who ought
to know estimated that the number OF persons
who died directly from tho consequences qftht
heat numbered at least score, and admitted
that the general mortality of the city woul
indirectly show frightful increase Among
children, and particularly among those be-
tween the ages OF and years, the deatl rate
increased last week with frightful rapidity. a nd
not less than three hundred ,nnocentS, it is said
a. will be shown by the weekly report of tl,t
Board Of Health which will be published to
mOrl ow, fell victims during the last seven day.
to the sudden and awful a, gment ton Of tn,
suns heat. 70 give our readers an idea in fig
ures. which, like facts, never lie. il is oni,
necessary to reproduce here the records which
have been kept at the observatory OF tn
United States Signal Office in this city. TIL
observatory, it must be remembered, is one o
the coolest spots in Phil .delphia It is locatet
in the loftiest story Of the Western Union Tel
sgIarh COmpanv's ONCE, at Third and Chest
! nut streets, and its average temperature has b,
experience been found to be six degrees les
than that OF the street below. The figures ar
as follows
During 1874 the mean temperature Of jun
| was three degrees higher than it was in 1873
and the higher point reached was 81 degrees
With the continuance of the present heatet
term the mean temperature of June, 1875. viii
be at least degrees higher than that Of til
| same month last year. Yesterday the ther
mometer at Borhek's establishment, on Chest
| nut street, below Seventh, registered 81 de
gre at ten o'clock A. NJ, 9SX at noon. an,
| 80 at seven o'clock p. N.
Now, good friends, remember mex
winter when the wind howls over tn,
snow and the thermometer goes crawl
ing around away below zero, that in
tense heat is just as uncomfortable an,
hundred times more deadly than in
tense cold. Let us try to conquer tn
discomforts of our climate and turn then
into comforts, and let Us above all re
memoer and be grateful tor the grea
blessings We enjoy.