The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-07-17
A YERIrARLn HOT nox.
The Public Library Room aud It's Roast
ing Atmosphere,

The Public Library Room aud It's oRs
ing Atmosphere,
"Talk about it being hot" said q
laundry dried looking man coming out
OF the public library Saturday, whom
the Thermometer at %schnePfs had
marked the highest ambition the mer-
curry had obtained, 90 degrees, ''yop
ought to poke your head in that shad'
rach, Meshach and Abednego furnace
in there"
"Nhy, is it warmer than 1t Is out
side?' asked the reporter,
"Shades Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS cruci-
blel" exclaimed the sufferer, Ut is ten
times hotteF-a regular Turkish bath.
Go in and try q sweat yourself, II you
don't believe me-"
Tho reporter, believing that personal
experience would be more reliable than
IN overheated Imagination, resolved to
chance q few minutes. II is hardly
necessary to state that he was con
WINGED. Added to the normal heat OF
tho atmosphere Is about four or Ave de-
grees generated by numerous gas burn-
ers which burn all day to light tho
dark alcoyes, and when at evening tide
the entire force Of burners comes on
duty the additional warmth may bs im-
agined-hardly described, There is q
comparative figure Of speech used in
heated matters about the hinges OF
fophet, and II Ia very probable that in
tho library they would lose their con-
sistency and become molten. The
sweetest disposition after enduring the
heat of this place for two or three min.
utes would resolve itself into q misan-
thropic mass. This Is no fairy story,
but an unprejudiced statement with
kind and neiChborly feelings for truth,
Why, II acowboy stroiled in there he
would imagine he had struck the arid
alkali plains and would OF habit look
around for cactus.
GLOW do you stand this" icebly
painted the reporter, OF u Of the
.obliglng Librarians, motiouing his hand
toward the large chunks OF heat that
were, floating around.
"How do We stand it2 Well, really /
can't tell. II might be just as rational
to ask a corpse how 1t feels to be dead.
The most onerous burden imposed up.
on q woman, however, 10 TO preserve O
sweet temper with moist face"
"Have you eyerdiscovered theheight,
the depth and breadth of this-this
torrid onoatmosphere
"Really, we couldn't be SO cruel as to
risk the life OF IN industrious and
truthful thermometer in such q danger
GUS task. 1t would be downright bar.
barity; don't you think so2"
Did the reporter think so? Umphl
He had no waver!ng thoughts in his
mind; there was no Bill Allen ideality
about 1t, but an ever present, smother.
ing, gasping, p%erspiring sensation Ill
luded to in the scriptural description Of
a certain lake Of fire and brimstone-a
condition running the entire gamut Of
comparative %adiectives and only ex-
hausted in the poverty OF the English
language.
Rolling mills close down during the
heated term and why should not those
faithful public servants, tho Librarians,
be given some slight surcease Of their
labor during the same period-from a
hntpanitarlan point of view, ii not from
other and equally deserving considera-
tions. There is o proposition be-
fore the Board Of Education
to close the library at Q o'clock
y, IN. during August This mat
ter will be acted on this evening by the
Committee on Library, and it Is to be
hoped they will show that tho quality
of their mercy Is not strained, but that It
will fall like the gentle, refreshing hu.
nudity Of heaven on their deserving
servants. In fact, they would do well
not 10 wait until August-even now is
the accepted and oyer-heated time.