The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-16
WITHERING HEAT
Falls Upon Kansas This Week, and
is Getting Worse.
HOW THE PEOPLE STAND IT.
sleep Made Almost an ImpOssibflity
in Some Localities In the City.

Sleep Made Almost an ImpOssfbflity
in Some Localities in the City.
Oh, this glorious Kansas climate that we run
against last night;
climate as a climate at was simply out O.
ALIVE found a layin' fer us as we sweltered into
bed.
AT didn't care picayune fer mean things at
'Atsimply settled down to biz. an took away
Made Twin seem burden at we'd like to swap
fer death:
AT made US twist an murmur, an sweat an
Though sleepin' next winder. in tn middle of
July.
OF Plute's oven warn,t patchin'; you could
swear to that today
Ye'd a-cooled off some in hadeS if yed happen
Yer very teeth wus meItin. an yer hard gone
An fannin' didn't do no good. an moppin'
So ye laid awake an listened. an yer language
was crime.
AS ye heard yer footsteps sizzlin' in the corri-
An We seemed to see the fickerin' of cooler
bye-an'bye,
AS ye nestled next the Winder in the middle of
July.
Last night was scorcher.
And last night is in mighty good posi-.
ton to say to today, YOU'RE another"
1t would require volume and a large
one to chronicle the comments of snf-
fering, melting public on them both.
People who went to bed last night and
went to sleep under several hours of
tossing and rolling and dropping off,"
and waking up TO mop and fan, were for
tunate indeed. The breath of breeze
there was did not get into all the wide
j open windows. and missed large per-
centage of humanity struggling to keep
| cool enough to get to sleep and stay so.
1t was withal the hottest night of the
| season and but once this year has it been
| as hot at seven o'clock in the morning as
it was today. The mercury stood at sew
enty- eight and so it did on the morning
of June 25th. 1t was at SO at seven last
evening and it was not until eleven
o'clock that it dropped very much below
| that.
Many people slept in hammocks in the
| yards and some on porch roofs.
Topeka has been fortunate in the
matter of sunstrokes. None have been
recorded so far this year. A few people
are sick because of the intense heat of
yesterday but none seriously so 1t
reached SO on Mr.. Jennings roof yester-
day afternoon, as hot as 1t
has been this season and it
started out with an evident de-
II clock this morning it had reached 81
there. and was SO on the street,
Animals suffered most.
team belonging to some stock men
on their way south was nearly overcome
by the heat on Kansas avenue this morn
ing. The men in the wagon were merci-
less, and were going TO push on, but the
police saw the state of affairs and made
them stop and give the team rest and
time to recover.
In the shadow of the Bank of Topeka
building as close to the wall as he could
get lay good sized pug dog gasping
and painting and frothing. He had just
been able to crawl into the shade and
there friendly colored boy threw 4
bucket of water on him. In an hour his
dogship was all right again. It's warm
day when it affects a dog that way.
There are only two cool looking
things in town just now. They are 6
cake of ice and a woman in a white
Dress
Men are putting up and down the
streets with their coats on their arms
their hats On the back of their heads
hopping themselves with their handker
chiefs and generally d.eploring the con
ditiOn of the temperagSre.
There are two and only two chance
for comfort in the situation. One is tina
Mr.. Jennings has promised cooler wealth
er by tomorrow and the other is that I o
peka and Kansas are not alone in theiI
suffering. Here is MIR. Jennings repor
for today:
A dow is central this morning neal
Sioux City, Iowa, and has raised the
temperature from Colorado east, anc
from Arkansas to Minnesota, inducing
southerly winds in Oklahoma, Kansas
Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota; anC
northerly in the Dakotas, Wyoming anC
Colorado. The barometer has risen il
Montana and lowered the temperature
Clear weather is general this morning
! exc ept in eastern Iowa and Minnesota
! A light rain has fallen at Havre, Thes
conditions presage nearly stationary tenn
perature today in the vicinity of Topeka
, slightly cooler Wednesday, with contin
ued fair weather.