The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-08-08
THE WEATHER rIEND.
A Street Car Discussion Of an Everlasting
Topic.

Topic.
pretty warm, the man with the thin
clothes said to the man in the corner seat
| at the South Hill car was coming down
| the Division street steps.
Whats pretty warm?" growled the man
in the corner
Why the weather"
What weather." more gruf1y 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,
how's this weather any different from any
other?"
The man with the thin clothes looked
nervously at the dumb mule and said. at
was warmer.
How do you know it is2" asked the
man in the corner.
The other man began to wish he was
well out of it, and said he supposed it
was; he hadn't heard how the
isn't the weather the same every
wheres" savagely demanded the mau 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 some places, and in some
places it's colder"
What 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, with the effects of the
suns heat"
make it colder in some places than it's
warmer in Others?" roared the man indig-
-
mo, the man in thin clothes fastened
to explain Il didn't mean that The
sun makes it warmer"
Then what makes it colder?" pursued
the remorseiess man in the corner.
The man liz thin clothes wiped the bead
ed 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 symp-
toms of approaching dissolution apparent
in his tremulOus voice, "the ice that was
-frozen-frozen by the frost"
Did you ever see any ice that was not
frszen?" howled the man in the corner in a
burst of derision.
The man in thin clothes huskily whs-
pered that he wished he was dead, and
said: "No that is, he believed he didn't"
Then, Numbered the man in the cor
ner, 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?" tri
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 che didn't know
very much about it, that was fact" And
I, Il r.nI e h4 Oh IL
little joke about nobody being able to
know much about the weather, but the
man in the corner sat down on him with |
outburst.
No. sir! / should say you didn't. |
You come into this car and force yourself |
On the attention of a stranger, and begin to /
talk to me about the weather, just as |
though you owned it, and | lind you don't
know a solitary thing yourself selected for |
your topic of conversation; you don't |
know one thing about neurological con-
1itions, principles or phenomena; you
can't tell me why it is warm in August and
cold in December; you don't know icicles
'orm faster in the sunlight than they do in
he shade; you don't know why the earth
grows colder as it comes near the sun;
you can't tell why man can be sunstruck
n the shade; you can't tell me how a
;yclone is formed nor how the trade winds
blow; you couldn't find the calm centre of
storm if your life depended on it, you
lon't know what sirocco is, nor where
he southwest Monsoon blows; you don't
Know the average rainfall of the United
states for the past and current year; you
lont understand the formation of fog and
-ou can't explain why the dew falls at
light and dries up in the day; you don't
NOW why wind dries the ground more
quickly than hot sun; you don't know
me solitary thing about the weather and
-ou are just like thousand and one other
PEOPLE who always begin talking about
he weather because they don't know
nything else, when, by the cave of Boreau,
ir, they know less about the weather than
hey do about anything else in the world
And the man in the corner glared up and
Iown at the timid passengers in the South
Hill car, but no man burst answer him.
md as for the man in the thin clothes, he
dn't know for the life of him whether he
ad had sunstroke or an ague chill. He
My knew that it seemed about twenty-I
even miles to the jefferson street cross
ny Burlington Hdaekeye.
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