Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-07-28
THU bot WAVE.
TIE MERCURY TOUHED 96 AGAIN YESTER-
DAY.
The Promise Of Rain Still Unillfllsd-Some
Psculiaridss Of the TOrrid Season,
Here and Elsewhere.

The local thunder storms predicted
for this section by the weather depart
ment, did not put in appearance yester-
day, and the day was very trying one.
The almost total absence OF anything
like a breeze made the high tempera-
ture almost unbearable, especially
within doors, in the heart OF
the city, and even as late as midnight
last night tie mercury lowered about
the 90 degree mark in every small room
In the business district where gas was
burning. The weather authorities have
renewed the promise OF rain Tor To-Day
and il is earnestly hoped good soaking
storm will pass this way and hnger
while with US. Rain is badly needed IN
the country, and an adequate amount
of water would mean great many DOL
lars in the pockets Of farmers. Not
only are crops suffering, but the small
streoms have gone dry, and many wells
and springs are also failing, while the
river IS lower than it has been In July
for twenty-three years past, &C
cording TO the people about the
wharf who keep the run OF that sort OF
thing. The stream can be torded al
almost any point, and young men ana
boys can be seen daily wading over 10
the Island from the city. BACK river
has almost disappeared, even above tie
dam, while below the bed Is one vast
expanse of mud and gravel, which re-
fleets the sunlight during the day ike
a section Of the Sahara.
The same conditions exist over al most
the entire country, and papers from
other States record the hottest weather
ever before known. In fact, at many
and widely separated points, the mer-
curry has gone up to q point almost oe'
yond belief for the Northern states or
indeed any other locality OUTSIDE OF
certain spots within the tropics
At Spring Lake, \. Y, the other day,
for instance, it touched ia In the
shade, two towns in Illinois report lO9
and 10, respectively, and snndry points
in Iowa. Nebraska and the DaSotas
have recorded los TO 40 in the shade.
Even on the Lake Front" In Chicago,
at n. m. of Wednesday OF this week,
tue SbOOu ~ wv N'0-i
the same hour on the same evening 1t was
90 In the signal service office In the top
story of the Auditorium Hotel tower,
200 feet above the street, where there
is always a stiff breeze from the lak e.
Here in Wheeling we had 9S one day
last week and 100 the next day, at D.
NJ. and this week it has been doing 80
right along without an effort.
The heated term presents several
peculiarities to the person who has the
curiosity and patience TO study 1t. One
is the comparatively low temperature
in the mornings. Yesterday morning
at O'Clock, for Instance, the mercury
marked Go degrees, while at $3.50 p. m.
il was 96, a rise If so degrees. Another
regularity, noted in other cities as well
as in Wheeling, is the high temperature
in the evening. The 100 record of last
week, for instance, came st ) p. M,
when there should have been fall OF
several degrees, and one other evening
il was 90 al 10 .. N. Chicago's high
mark of 100, as above noted, came at :
D. M, aud New York reports the same
popularity. Last night it was over 90
in the city at p. M, drop of only 6
degrees from the top notch OF the day.
Two or three other queer things
come to mind, but it is too hot to iot
them down.