Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-08-10
The Weather.
A Discussion in a Street Car.

A Discussion in Street Car.
"Pretty warm" the man with the
thin clothes said to the man in the
corner seat as the South Hill car was
coming down the Division street steps.
"What's pretty warm2" growled the
man in the corner.
"Why, the weather" 1.
"What weather!' more gfuffiy than
ever.
"Why," the man with the thin
clothes said, looking as though he
wished he hadn't begun it. "this
weather"
"Well said the man in the corner,
shows this weather different from any
other?"
The man with the thin clothes
looked nervously at the dumb mule
and said, ait was warmer"
"How do you know it isl' asked
the man IN the corner.
The other man began to wish he
was we'll out of it, and said he sup
posed it was as he hadn't heard how
the--
"Isn't the weather the same every
wherep' savagely demanded the man
in the corner. as
"Why, no" the man with the thin
clothes replied, wishing to goodness
he had newspaper to hide behind,
''no; it's warmer some places, and some
places it's colder"
aWhat makes it warmer in some
places than it's colder in others?"
remorselessly pursued the man in the
corner.
why" the man with thin clothes
said piteously, ''the sun, the, effects Of
the snn's heat"
"Makes it colder in soma places than
| it's warmer in others?" roared the man
in the corner, Indignantly. Never
heard of such thing"
.No," the man with thin clothes
hastened to explain. II didn't mean
that The sun makes it warmer"
"Then what makes it colder?" pur-
sued the remorseless man in the corner.
The man in thin clothes wiped the
beaded perspiration from his pallid
brow, and said slowly he guessed 'it
was ice" II
"What ice2" demanded the in
quisitor.
"Why' the victim said, with every
symptom Of approaching dissolution
apparent in his tremulous voice, sthef
ice that was--frozen--frozen-- by the.
frost.
"Did you ever see any ice that
wasn't frozen?" howled the man in
the corner, in q fine burst OF derision.
The man in thin clothes whispered
huskily that he wished that he was
dead, and said, "No; that is, he be-
lieved he didn't" t1a
"Then," Numbered the man in the
corner, "what are you talking about?"I
The man In thin clothes then made
an effort to brace up, and spicily re-
piled that be was trying to "talk
about the weather."
Sand what do you know about it?"t
triumphantly roared the man in the
corner. "What do you know about
the weather."
The man in thin clothes lost his grip
again and feebly said that "he didn't
know much about 1t, that was fact"
And then be tried to be cheerful
and work in little joke about nobody
being able to know much about the
weather, but the man in the corner
sal down on him with q tremendous
outbnrst.
"No, sirl I should say you didn't.
You come into this car and force your
self on the attention Of stranger, and
begin to talk to me aboutthe weather,
just as though you owned It, and I
find you don't know q solitary thing
about the matter yourself selected for
your topic Of conversation; you don't
know one thing about meteorological
conditions, principles Or phenomena;
you can't tell me why it is warm in
August and cold in December; you
don't know icyles form faster in the
sunlight than they do in the shade;
you don't know why the earth grows
colder as it comes nearer the sun; you
can't tell why y man can be sunstruck
in the shade; you can't tell me how q
cyclone is formed, nor how the trade
winds blow, you couldn't fnd the
calm center ofa storm if your life de-
pended on it; you don't know what .
sirocco is nor whore the southwest