The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-08
MORE HOT WEATHER.
The Observer Smiles While Human
ity Is Suffering.

Last winter when the weather man missed
MS guess on one or two occasions and
bowling blizzard followed the prediction Of
falr and clear, dyspeptics were frequently
heard to remark that the official prognos-
tlcator knew about much concerning his
Job which Uncle Sam had bestowed upon him
as did the Inhabitants of Darkest Africa
Now these same people have an opportunity
to go down to the weather bureau and con-
graduate the officials upon the precision of
tnelr forecasts, but as yet no one has been
killed by the efforts of crowd to reach the
top of the Chamber of Commerce building on
this pleasant mission.
Ever since last Saturday the government
augur has been telling the people by his maps
and barometer how warm it was going to
be the next day, and true to his predictions
1t has been getting hotter and hotter as the
week progressed. For seven consecutive days
the thermometer has registered 80 degrees
and over, and one day it gleefully cayorted
up to 100. This condition of affairs was all
due to prevail according to the weather Jug
gler, and now while the critics of nine months
ago swelter and sizzle he can take his palm
lear fan and pajama to the cool atmosphere
OF mis- observatory and give them a vernac-
ular Ha, Ha" with a vengeful glee.
Yesterday was not the hottest day of the
week, but 1t was sufficiently torrid in its
temperature for most people. In fact, follow
Ing so closely upon the trail of half dozen
other scorching solar periods of twenty-four
hours each 1t simply made the populace
squirm with discomfort. At sunrise the Their
mometer registered 66 and there was enough
humidity In the atmosphere to indicate to
the weather man that things would be de-
cidedly good before night. And thew were
AS the sun rose higher and higher and his
rays focused the earth with wore direct
ness, the mercury began to climb so ranidly
that by noon it was ''rubbering" around the
IS mark The moisture in the atmosphere had
increased, and that oppressive feeling incl
cent TO such occasions was only made more
unbearable by the waftings of a few stray
zephers from some sunburnt western plain
Every one who wore coat pulled 1t from
his back, and every one who had the price
sought saloon or drug store, there to i'm
bibe of the alleged cooling amber fluid and
soda water in vain endeavor to derive a mo-
mentary comfort. he worst was not over
at noon, however, by some seven degrees
and at o'clock the thermometer registered
81. This was the official register but at the
drug stores about the city the mercury went
as high SO. No record Is taken of the
mercurial flights in the glare of the sun and
perhaps 1t is just as well, for there were
plenty OF people yesterday, who, If they could
have seen their own temperature marked up
in cold figures, would have had to be carried
home on shutters.
Just to show that he can be magnanimous
when the occasion really demands it, and to
demonstrate that he bears the citizens of st
Paul no great i'll will the weather man man
aged to lure few black clouds this way late
in the afternoon, and predicted that they
would deposit their next moisture in this Vi
entity last night, amid thunder peals and
lightning flashes, which he said would do
much toward cooling off both the atmosphere
and scorching earth, so that II he is as near
right as he has been recently return to en-
durable weather may be had today.
The only prostration of the day reported
was that of Edward Hoppert a carpenter
employed at the Abbott manufacturing plant
on East Seventh street. He was overcome
by the heat in the afternoon, and was taken
by the Ducas street patrol wagon to his home
at IA Livingstone avenue. His condition is
reported as not serious.