River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-11-30
THE WEATHER FIESD ;
Or, The Crushed Passenger.
rFrom the Burlington Hawk Eve.

from the Burlington Hawk-Eye.l
aPretty warm" the man with his thin
clothes said to the man in the corner
seat.
What's pretty warm ?" growled the
man in the corner.
@Why, the weather.
what weather." more gruffiy 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 any different from
any other?'
The man in the thin clothes looked
nervously at the dumb mule, and said,
at was warmer"
aHow do you know it?" asked the
man in the corner
The other man began to wish he was
we'll out of it, and said he supposed it
was; he hadn't heard how the
@lsn't the weather the same every
whereof savagely demanded the man
In the corner.
"Why, no." the man with the thin
clothes replied, wishing to goodness he
had newspaper to hide behind; mo,
it's warmer in places, and in some places
it's colder
what makes it warmer in some
places than it's colder in others?" re-
morselessly pursued the man in the
corner,
why" the man with the thin clothes
said, piteously, the sun, with the effects
of the suns heat
Makes it colder in some places than
it's warmer in others 2" roared the man
in the corner, Indignantly. Never
heard of such thing"
"No," the man the thin clothes hast
ened 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 the thin clothes wiped
the beaded perspiration from his pallid
brow, and said slowly he guessed sit was
the ice"
what ice ?" demanded the inquisitor
why" the victim said, with all
symptoms of approaching dissolution
apparent in his tremulous voice, the
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 burst of derision.
The man in thin clothes huskily whis-
pered that he wished he was dead, and
said mo; that is, he believed he didn't.
"Then," Numbered the man in the
corner, what are you talking about ?"
The man in thin clothes then made an
effort to brace up, and spicily replied
that he was trying to talk about the
weather"
and what do you know about it 2"
triumphantly roared the man in the
corner. @What do you know about the
weather."
The man in the thin clothes lost his
grip again, and feebly said she didn't
know much about it, that was fact"
And then he 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 sat down on
him with tremendous outburst.
"No, sir! I should say you didn't.
You came into this car and forced your
self on the attention of stranger, and
began to talk to me about the weather,
just as though you owned it. and / find
you don't know solitary thing about
the matter yourself selected for your
topic of conversation; you don't know
one thing about meteorological condi-
tions, principles or phenomena; you
can't tell me why it is warm in August
and cold in December; you don't know
icicles form faster In the sunlight than
in the shade; you don't know why the
earth grows colder as it comes near the
sun; you can't tell me why man can
be sunstruck in the shade; you can't
tell me how cyclone is formed nor
how the trade-winds blow; you couldn't
find the calm center of storm if your
life depended on it, you don't know
what a sirocco is nor where the south
west monsoon blows; you don't know
the average rainfall in the United States
for the past and current year; you don't
understand the formation of fog, and
you can't explain why the dew falls at
night and dries up in the day; you don't
know why wind dries the ground
more quickly than hot sun; you don't
know one solitary thing about the
weather, and you are just like thous-
and and one other people who always
begin talking about the weather be-
cause they don't know anything else,
when, by the cave of Boreas, sir, they
know less about the weather than they
do about anything else in the worldl"
And the man in the corner glared up
and down at the timid passengers, but
no man burst answer him. And as for
the man in thin clothes, he didn't know
for the life of him whether he had
sunstroke Or an ague chill