The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-09-02
TaD WEATH0R PEND.
a Street Car 0locu0olon CT an
Everlasting TOPIC.

A Street Car Diocuosion CT al
Bverlasting Topso.
! ..'PIvtty wur,n," the man in th,
thin clothes said to the man In thl
corner seat - the South Hill car va
coming down the Division street
steps.
! "What's pretty farm =" growlcd
the man In i;." corner.
"Why, the weather."
"What weather ~ more crutIiy
than :ver.
why" th.' man with the thin
clothes said. looking ~ though he
wished he hadn't begun It, this
weather.
"N'ell," s:::,l the man in the corner,
.'how's thi: weather any 'ii6cren,
! from, any Othcr::'''
The nlau with the thin clothes
looked nervOus!y ut the dumb mule
and said, 1T J.. WARMER"
''iOw do y"u know II is >" asked
: the man In lllv corner.
The other hsau began to wish he
was well 0ui %: 1t, and said he sup.
posed II was: l.. hadn't hcartl how
The
Isn't the Weather the SAME every
where >" sava...:y demanded the man
In the corner.
"Why, no" Tie man with the thin
clothes replii'', wishing to goodness
ne had newspaper to hide behind /:
mo, IT'S warmer In some places and
In some places it's colder"
"What makes 1t warmer In some
places than :t's colder in others ~
renorsely ru::as.l the man in the
corner.
"Why," the man with the thin
clothes said piteously, 1.-THE sun, with
the effects OF the suns heat"
"Makcs it colder in some places
than lite warmer in others ~ roaretl
the man in the corner, Indignantly.
'Never heard Of such q thing"
NO." the man in the thin clothes
fastened to explain. ''Ididn't mean
that. The SUM makes it warm"
''Then what makes it colder ~
pursued the remcrse!css man in the
corner.
THE man in thin clothes wiped the
beaded l,erspiratiOn from his ,sslli(
brow: and said slowly, he guessed .'it
was the ice."
"What ice::' demanded the inquis-
itor.
Why" the victim said, with all
symptoms Of approaching dissolution
apparent In his tremul0sls voice, 1.-THE
Ice that was frozen frozen bv the
FROST"
did YOU ever see any ice that was
not frozen y" ll0wled tie man in tho
corn0r, In burst of dcrision.
Tue IMAM In thin clothes huskily
whispered that he wished he was
dead, and said: mo, that j.. lie lie.
lieved he didn't
''Then," thunderetl the man in the
corner. "what are y"a talking
about 2"
The man in thin clothes then made
an effort tn brace up, aud spicily r.
piled that lie was trying to talk
about the weather."
"And what do sou know about it,"
triulnphantly rOared the man in the
cornc. "What do you know about
the weather."
The man in the thin clothes l,s.
his grip again, and feebly said "he
didn't know very much about It.
that was fact" And then he tried
TO he cheerful and work In a little
joke about nobody being able to know
,nuch about the weather, but the
man In the corner sat down ON him
with tremendous 0utburst.
mo, sir: l should say you didn't.
You come into this car and force
yourself on the attention Of strang-
er, and begin to talk to me about the
weather, just as though you ON ned
1t. and find you don't know a soli.
tary thing about the matter yourself
selected for your topic Of cOnversa-
ton you don't know one thing
about meteorological conditions, prii-
cirlcs or phenomena you can't tell
me why it Is warn, in August and
cold IT, Dec>n.bcr; you don't know
iciclcs form faster In the sunlight
than they do in the shade you don't
knew why the earth grows colder as
1t comes near the suh you can't tel!
why u man can be sunstruck In the
shade; you cant tell me how a cy.
clone is formed nor how the trade
winds blow you couldn't find the
caiEi center OF :, storm If your life
on it you don't know
Whit sirOccD IS, nor where H."
southwest nlOlistn'n blows: YOU Gui:'t
know the average rainfall In the
United States for the past and cur
rent year; you don't unGlerstand the
formation Of fog. aud yo,l can't ex-
plain why the dew falls ut night anil ;
dries up In the day: you don't know
why wind dries the ground more
quickly than a hot SUN: yOu don't
know one solitary thing about tic
weather, and you are just like .
thousand and one other people who
always begin talk lug n..0,lt the wealth
er bsca,lsc they Il mt know anything
clsc, when, by the cave 0f llOreau,
sir, they know less about the weather
than they do about anything else in
the worl,i:'
And the HAN in tie corner clarc,l
up and down at the tin,i.l passengers
in the Scut;, Hill car, E,.i no man
burst ailswer him. AMI ;,s for the ,
man in thin clothes, he didn't know
IOr the life Of him whether lie had a
or ara aguc chill. lie only
knew that it seemed uir:ut twenty.
seven miles to the JcstcrSon.street .
Observation-Disclosures Xs1E.Ht.