Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-09-16
THE WEATHER PEND.

clothes said to the man IL the corner seat a.
the S0uth Hill car was coming down the
Division street steps,
"What's pretty WARM growled the
man in the corner.
| Why, the weather."
WHAT weather. mcre grufiy 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 in the thin clothes looked
nervously at the dumb mule and said, 1T
wss warmer"
How do you know it is - asked the
man IN the corner.
The other man began to wish he was
well ous Of it. and sand he supposed it was !;
he hadn't heard how the
Isn't the weather the same every
where Z" 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 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, 1.-THE sun, with the effects of the
sums heat"
Makes it colder in come places tn n
It's warmer in othera ?" roared the man in
the corner, Indignantly. "Never heard OF
such a thing
mo" the man in thin clothes FASTENED
to explain. 81 didn't mean that. The
sun makes it warmer"
Then what makes it colder - pursued
the remorseless man in the corner
The man In the thin clothes wiped the
beaded perspiration from his pallid brow,
and raid slowly he guessed sit was the
iee."
" 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 wasn't
frozen p howled the man IN the corner in
a burst of derision.
The man in thin clothes huskily whisper
ed that he wished he was dead, and said
" Nu-that is, he believed he didn't"
Then, " Numbered the man in the cor
ner. what are you talking abouts'
The man in thin clothes then made an
effort to brace up, and spiciIy replied that
he was trying to talk about the weather"
''And what do you know about it?n
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 feebiy said "he ddn's know
very much about it, that was fact. /" And
then ne 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 a
tremendous outburst,
mo, 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 l find that you don't
know a solitary thing about the matter
yourself selected for your topic of CONVEX.
sation; you don't know one thing about
meteorological conditions, principles OF
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 they do in the shade You
don't know why the earth grows colder as
1t comes near the sun you can't tell why
a man can be sunstruok in the shade
you can't tell NE how cyclone
is formed, nor how the trade winds blow
you couldn't find the calm center of
storm il your life depended on it you don't
know what sirocco is, nor where the
southwest 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 ia the day you don't know
why wind dries the ground more quickly
than hot sun ; you don't know one soil
tary thing about the weather, and you are
Just like a thousand. ard-one other people
who always begin talking sbout the wealth
er, because 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 world !"
Aud the man in the corner glared up and
down at the timid passengers in the South
Hill car, but no man durss answer him
And as for the man in thin clothes, he
didn't know for the life OF him whether he
had 8 sunstroke or an ague chill. He only
knew that it seemed about twenty seven
miles TO the Jefferson-strees crossing
burlington Hawkeye.
r, NJ. J. PAYNTEE, the Western Union