Omaha daily bee., 1890-08-10
THE HOT yyEA THEE ETEND.
He Drives Paris Newspaper Men to the
Verge Of LunaCy.
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PARIS, August o. New York Herald Cable
Special to The BEE. 1-"This is hot enough
for anything were the only original obser.
vations Of which parsians were capable this
afternoon. All other ideas seemed to be
simply steamed out Of them. The sud.
den hot wave struck Paris straight
from the shoulder with quiclness that
nothing could resist. Perspiring citizens,
with hardly breath enough left to order cool
ing drinks, assembled outside the cafes and
in Short sharp gasps, with intervals Of
mopping, expressed their opinions, which for
once were unanimous.
The usual discussions, with the finging
about ofarms, such as one sees in ordinary
weather, were out of the question. There
was only one subject, and on that all discus.
sion was impossible. 1t was hot, hot, particu.
larry bot, and that was all there was to it.
But the hCighth Of the Thermometer was not
the worst feature Of the day, The ficnd, the
man who knows and wants to
know nothing about anything but
the weather, and meteorology, and storms,
and predictions, and gulf streams, and things,
who had come back from the holiday, of
course set to work enthusiastically. 1t was
his opportunity. Armed with a note book he
started 10 gather opinions ON the all absorb
ing subject He gathered first of all an
assorted collection nof profanity, rendered even
more tropical by the state of the atmosphere,
and then gained the experience. He will never
forget strolling past Jardin des Plantes on his
way to the observatory to see what the cal
meteorologist thought about things.
The fend dropped in to compare notes with
the animals-most of them had very wisely
retired to the shady corners of their
cages-but what was his surprise to find the
chief elephant standing under the pleasant
shade Of IA lime tree and gracefully tanning
himself with full sized paper fan. This
was too much for the fend, so taking a
hasty picture of the Intelligent animal with
the lightning photographer he
always keeps concealed in his
hat he tied. Unfortunately he
turned his steps toward the Herald Office,
where he busted himself with various scien-
tile Instruments kept there for the reference
ofusual visitors to the reading room at 40
Avenue Opera, having transferred their
headquarters to the fountain on place Con-
cOrde.
The fend contended himself by remarlzing
that the thermometer registered 26o cent?
grade or I9o fahrenheit, but this did not sat
isfy his inQuiring mind. To the general dis
may of the editorial staff the fiend asked
what we thought of the state of the weather,
and proceeded to give us a dissertation on
the temperature of our various departments.
After ascertaining that the editorial room reg
istered So fahrenheit he started in to inter-
view the editors themselves but in this effort
he was not very successful. The edtor-in-
chief simply went on flaming himself even
more gracefully than the elephant, and the
sporting editor forgot that he was just then
attending to the religious department and
nearly fuzed the telephone wires with the
warth of his language.
The cable said something about Heligoland
which did not seem TO have any reference to
the subject and the financial editor mildly
suggested that he hoped the thermometerh had
reached the top figures Down below in the
conposin g room the fiend was in his glory:
the thermometer registered 30 centigrade So
Acknowledgment, big, full bodied degrees
in each case-and here the fend
saw grand opportunity to
get some original work. He began
by asking our big, brawny foreman whether
this was hot enough for him.
Before the giant could form one of those
fine old Saxon phrases that would use up a
case full OF capital DIS, in less than no time
the bulb OF the thermometer suddenly burst
and the tiend fled from the premises followed
by the eXecratlons Of the whole staff of long
suffering, editors, compositors and machine