Weekly Trinity journal., 1878-11-30
A LITTLE TOO WARM.

ness, aJ-o.u.e Jigid.Y. Why, back. in
lS4S, il the people would when lived .ou
in The Cauniaal Islands, see the thermo-
meter alI to one hundred degrees 10 the
shade, they'd get olt their skates and
begin to consider the probability Of an
lee crop.
"Geroallyup TO four or FIVE hundred
in ths shade. They never did their
cooking with fires out there. Always
baked their bread in the sun. Lay \
s,eal, oo the window sin, and it would
be done on one side before you could
stick fork into it 20 turn it over The
water was hot, too. People never
thought Of getting cold water to drink.
Put leg of mutton down a well and it'd
come up boiled, ana you could pump
mutten soup out OF the,wol Cor three or
four days, The first time | went to swim
in the ocean out there didn't know about
it, and ! was nearly scalded TO death. :"
"In the ocean,"
"Yes Sir, in the Pacific Ocean. Why,
a dog in That country couldn't put down
four legs at time. lie would 60 on
three legs SOS to give the othera chance
to cool. 1t was common thing for
horses to get their shoes red-hot and
one summer remember the pavements
got SO warm that several horses had thoir
legs burned of clean up 10 their knees
Did they have no cool weather Mt
an?"
ooh yes, Of course lut that was in the
rainy season. Then it would ret very
cold sometimes, and this caused cur
ioas phenomenon. The island l lived on
was about eight miles long in the wintor
time, but the heat Of the summer was so
intense HAT it would expand the island to
the extent ofabout four miles and so she'd
go, expanding and contracting from year
to year in the most extraordinary man
ner. know jn.t after ! went there ]
bought place of twelyeacres Of "a man.
II was summer time and paid him 50
much nm acre. When TIE cold weather
Gam / found Chat il wasn't more chan
halfthe ize 1T ought to be, and the
trees were crowdiag upso close together
that vou couldn't walk through them.
Took advantage Of me The man dill I
ought to have bought it in ths winter"
We it n prolific soiI"'
"Wen, yes, WHOM the season was good
In roal hot weather things were slow Of
growing. But ordinarily my corn would
be between three and four hundred feet
high, ard the stalks from six to nine feet
in diameter a tbe base. We cut it with
axes. The cars were generally alaut the
size of a large lobster. There was a man
ever On one or the island named Smith
who used to raise one turnp year, and
that was enough, because "a single tur.
nip woald cover three quarters an acre.
But one good growing seas0n Smiths tur
nip gr7wci SO fully chat it covered
the island, and Smith lad to move Off
and 20 up On the side ofa volcano back
CT his place. However, Tie tulnip would
grow; couldn't Be stopped you enow; and
it did grow until finally got SO heavy
that it sunk the island"
Did Shat?'
"Sunl The entire island, and that You
know let the ocean into The volcano. This
geaeratcd steam So fast that the whole
tAing cXpIoded. and Smith was blown
sixty-tAree miles out to sea, and picked
up, discouraged, by San Fanci-co ship
He tod a r,udo,miu. uat that VA.
the hst Wnip De would ever raise. Yes,
Sir, it Nas Dot .o Chose regions. Jet d
mau og good hoal,h rep cut ot doors u
tbe middle the day ana he'd come
back wriusly, exactly Ike dried beef
i've known men Who cured Them dives
in that way So That with a couple OF days in
tls molSe hoa-e They'd keep for two
hundred years alive and as good as
ever.
"l'es alive. And evaporation was SO
great that 'vo seen the ocean Gdl one
hundred and af.y foet under hot sun
until you could wade twenty miles from
the land"
did you ever do it?"psked major.
"01an, ! have wadpd forty miles out. !"
81 thought you said the water was
boiling bot"
"Bohing hot?" Well I believe I--oh
yes, Of course boiling hot sometimes, but
but, Of course woro my boots. No,
sir-ifnny man catches me telling lie
! give him leave to kick NE on the
spot.p
Then rose mp tho major, and eleyatirg
the toe Of his boot, DO applied it to the
rear elevation Of Abnor, and sent him
wLilzing out into the street AJner
picked himself up, brushed the dust OF
IL. irowsefs, sul coming back to The
porch fniiing, he linked a. the major,
anal l.l:
"Major yoa're the quickest man to
take hint that ] ever met"
Then Abner borrowed a dime from
Jones and went away in search Of ii cool
ing beverage. .-Jiac Adeier.
WAsHNoToE' female lawyer, Mrs.
Belva A. T0ckwOod vho Lv her persis-