The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-08-25
Hottest in the World.

ture in different parts of the world shows
that the Great Desert of Africa is by fan
the hottest This vast plain, which ex-
tends 1000 miles from east to west, and
1000 from north to south, has tempera-
ture of $50 degrees Fahrenheit in the hot
test days of summer.
The caravans, which usually consist Of
from 500 to 1000 camels, with their as
sistants, experience great suffering through
the intense heat and the deprivation of
water, as the distance between wells very
often exceeds 10 days. There are numer-
Gus instances on record where whole tribes
have persisted from thirst, as the wells and
springs to which they had journeyed had
been dried up by the heat.
1t would be impossible for anyone but
the acclimatized Moors, Berbers and Arabs
to live, even for day, in the heat of the
raiDless Sahara. In spite ofthe fact that the
days are extremely hot the nights are nearly
always uncomfortably cold, and the travel
ers are obliged to burden themselves with
blankets in order to endure the change
Along the banks of the River Senegal,
which flows in northwestern cours e
through Senegambia, the highest degree
known is 1870. The Dushtistan regions of
Persia and the central and eastern portions
of the Desert Of Khiva are frequently sub
jected to 125 degrees. The inhabitants of
Persia, who are mostly Talks, or Moham-
medans of the Shute sect, are fortunately
privileged to enjoy three different climates.
While it is exceedingly hot in one section,
it is freezing cold in the other; and while
people are suffering with these two ex-
tremes it is delightfully."- temperate in and
around Ispahan. The Caspian provinces
are also oppressively hot, as they lie con-
siderably below the level of the sea.
In some parts of Central America and in
the valleys south Of the diamond district of
Brazil the temperature has risen to 100
degrees. The central plains of Australia
are extremely hot, the degree of heat being
frequently up to rs degrees.
In the sandy desert south of Neid, in
Arabia, and in Afghanistan 10 degrees is
not an uncommon degree. Through some
parts of Egypt and in Lower Greece the
sirrocco brings with it blast of heat which
is equal to 10 degrees. Particularly is
this true in localities close by the Nile,
where the simeon blows continually for 80
days, from the latter part of April until
the inundation of that river.
Along the southern coast of Africa,
around the Cape of Good Hope, the tenn
perature, through damp and sultry, very
often registers los degrees.
January is the hottest month in Tasma-
MIA and July the coolest. The extreme of
heat at Hobart, the capital for the last 20
years, is shown to be 105 degrees. In the
United States the temperature varies con
siderably, but there is no section which
cares to record more than 105 degrees.
In Montreal, and, in fact, all through
Canada, the climate is very irregular. The
thermometer takes fits of spasmodic darts
which frequently reach 104 degrees. The
hottest month of the year is July, and it
appears that this is the only month which
is absolutely free from night frosls.
Sicily is given 104 degrees, and Rome,
Italy, is generously let off with 95 degrees.
The people of New York, Baltimore and
Philadelphia betake themselves to the
woods, seek watering places, fan themselves
like madmen and become overheated in
their wild efforts to keep cool when the
thermometer is only up to 1902 degrees.
The southeastern provinces of Spain are
temperate in the winter but are subject in
the summer to the Solano, or hot winds,
which blow north from Africa, and which
raise the temperature to 100 degrees.
Bombay and Bengal, India, are treated
to 100 degrees, while Calcutta contents it
self with % degrees. Shanghai and the
tropical section of the Chinese Empire are
given 100 degrees, but Pekin is let offwith
IS degrees The torrid belt of the coast
of Jamaica and other points of Cuba have
never more than 100 degrees. St. Peters
burg, with SO degrees. will uphold the
record for Russia, although the southeast
ern section of that country, where water
melons are grown with an apt luxuriance,
is frequently up to 100 degrees. The
Burmah Empire, which is south of China,
has its hot season between April and the
middle of August, when 100 degrees stand
up as the order of the day. At Bangkok,
Siam, 81 degrees was the highest for eight
years.
The hottest parts of France are along
the Mediterranean coast, where Toulon and
Hyeres are given 80 degrees, Copenhagen,
Denmark, swelters under the pressure of 80
and Buenos Ayres and other parts of the
Argentine Republic hold up 80 as the
maximum degrees. The Sandwich Islands,
though situated within the tropics, are re-
markably temperate. The highest point at
Honolulu for II years was 80 degrees. In
Funchal, the capital of Madeira Islands,
the lesta, or hot east winds, raises the tenn
perature to 80 degrees.
Great Britain is particularly fortunate in
having an almost equaOle climate, England
is slightly warmer than Scotland; the high