The Arizona sentinel., 1886-09-25
4 WARM DAY.
The Horribly Torrid or Torridly Horrid Summer Climate of San Diego, Cal.

The Horribly Torrid or Torridly Horrid
 Summer CG1ate of San Diego. Cal.
 I take piece of dried ink whittled
 down in my hand to inform you that
 the equator has slipped several notches
 or two and got directly over us, say ten
 feet above us, with warmer indications
 by the corn barometer, and making one
 think he is in Wiltshire, sure. It is tor.
 ridly horrid, or horribly torrid, we
 don't know which, or both, but we
 rather think so. The impression is thai
 we have dried and gone there, for we
 never saw so much weather with the
 cold jerked completely out of it. The
 beauty of it is that we do not allow any.
 body to mention it only when he is by
 himself. If Hottentot were here to-
 day he would become hottentotter. A
 brick wall doesn't give any shade be-
 cause the sun just knocks the mortar
 out between the bricks and shines through. It is the hottest day ever seen in this country, and you couldn't ex pect to find a hotter one in future country.
 Nothing will cast a shadow Tn. sun shines in the windows of all four sides of the house. You walk around without a shadow-which is a great relief to some of the citizens, as even the police can't shadow you. r you ever had a shadow on your reputa- ton there is none there now It is use less for your neighbors to try to lay @hoc cho1 IL wood in the stoves to cook with. as the stoves are already red hot.
 All kinds of businesss transactions are red hot, and people get their fingers burned, and it is impossible for people to treat their enemies with the usual cool indifference The mercury is at the extreme Fahrenheit of its career, andnothing but hot words now pass cur rent between neighbors. Water, when it gets to such consistency that you can roll it up in your hands and make base ball out of it, is certainly won derful thing. You perspire until you are dry, and it looks as if they would have to soak us week to bring us back to life and soften us up little un- til we are more pliable. Even the shades of departed heroes are few and far between.
 The usually cool, calculating man is not here now, nor the neighbor who can give YOU the cold shoulder. A cake of ice out in the sun soon is done brown. a weIl-baked crust being formed on the surface of it. Boarders are not com plaining about the landlady's cold victuals at meals, for they are all hot If you want to bake bread just put it in- to refrigerator and it will soon be done. Ice-cream signs are all taken in, and the young men cease to be taken in, as ice-cream can not endure this weather and survive.
 If you put rods on your house to pre- vent the heat from striking it your la- Dor will be in vain, for the sun-bolts will strike down through the roof and catch you, even if you are under feather bed.
 The man who ventures out with cool knock the heat off with it, will soon go to ground struck either by the heat or the brick. Lawyers to-day are actually sweating in their efforts to make other people sweat Old grudges seem to be softening and running away, and old | sailors say that there is certainly clear passage to the North Pole and it would | be good time to start out for it now if | you were we'll equipped with linen clusters and have a goot assortment | of fans Fans do no good here, as they merely blow the heat against your face and singe your beard off If one | were Shadrach, Mesach or an Abed- nego he might go through this fiery ordeal without a singe, but 1 do not think any of us are eligible for the posi- tion. Yet if you start out with buggy you win be apt to think that you are an Elijah making the trip in fiery chariot-though without clearance papers. Money in you pockets gets hotter than ever and burns holes in them great deal quicker.
 It is such fierce hotness that we are depressed because we can not run around and pay other people what we owe them-so are said other people. The umbrella handle actually blisters your hand when you start out with it, while you feel that you are sort of walking conhagration, and yearn for some one to put you out. The fiery effusions of the poet can not be 4uenched even by the cold water which the humane editor throws on them. Figures of speech are inadequate to express the figures of heat. The earth $ heated so far down that we will have not winters for some time. But we can safely state that book agents, insurance nen, fleas, flies and other insects are standing this hot spell wonderfully yell.-A. " Bellaa0, ias Detroit Free Press.