The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-07
SOME HOT PLACES.
The Tropics Not the Only Places of
Extreme Heat.
From the chicago Times-Herald.

From the Chicago Times-Herald.
When the temperature crawls up 10 SO.
and the breeze lies down 10 rest, there
are men who are disposed to declare that
the Garden City is the hottest place on
earth. That's the way they feel, any
how until they read the returns from
u. Louis and New York. It may be
some consolation 70 them to learn that
there are places still hotter.
Hot as hades, is a cOllOquailism that
IS not taken literally. 1t is graphic, but
not convincing Kipling. Sr., goes one
better in describing I.Ohore, India. as II
with the lid on" and an Oriental speaks
OF the Desert of Khiva as having only
a sheet Of tissue paper between the sand
diII tile lower regions
The hottest place on earth is the desert
OF Sanara. In summer the rempera ture
ranges TO $50 degrees Fahrenheit, and wa
ter is ten days journey apart The nights
sary.
The hottest place in the United States
Is the Borax desert. Death Valley, where
~ degrees have been registered. Meat
SpOilS here three hours after being kill
ed, -four breeds worms in a week. eggs
COOK IN the sand Without water for one
nour men go insane. The desert birds
tall dead and men sleep in the water
A man who fell dead from sunstroke was
found an hour afterward with the scalp
parched and split with the heat
A fever patient with a temperature Of
100 degrees IS dangerously NOT. He may
reach 10, but cannot recover. Yet there
are NUMBER Of places on the earth where
the thermometer goes above the highest
1eNer neat and men continue 10 live.
Inc banks of the river Senegal flowing
through Senegambia, West Africa runs
Death Valley a close second, with tenn
perature of no Next hOnors go to the De-
sert OF Khiva, where che mercury climbs
to l25, and this degree is often reached in
the region that lies around the Caspian
sea, which is far below sea level
Along the coast of Central America and
IN the valleys south of the diamond fields
IN BrazlL the thermometer often registers
lze. The central plains of Australia swell
ter under us degrees of heat.
IN the sandy deserts south of Nejd. in
Arabia, and In Afghanistan, 100 degrees Is
not uncommon In Egypt and lower Greece
the slrocco brings with 1t a blast equal TO
liO degrees, which blows for fifty days un-
I'll the inundation of the Nile
Inc southern portions of Spain get a
wind from the Sahara, which brings dis
comfort TO the tune of old 100 for several
weeks. cuba has about the same tempera-
ture, in addition to heavy rains that evap-
crate IN steam. This produces the malarial
and yellow fever and cholera.
Al the Cape of Good Hope 1O6 degrees
OF temperature is registered with much
humidity, so that the suffering is ex-
IRENE.
Hobart. Tasmania. often shows 1O5 but
that is in January, when they can stand
It better. July is their coolest month,
Just when the rest of us are sweltering.
sicily is given l04, the same as Montreal.
Verify the ways of providence are pa
finding out Sicily never has frost. and
Canada has frosts eleven months of the
year
New. York. Boston, Baltimore. Cincin-
natl, ST Louis, OmOha and New Orleans
often jump the 100 mark The lake cities
shade off couple of degrees. When ii is
100 in Chicago, New York is clustering.
quivering,. stewing Dore vision of the in
fernO.
Philadelphia takes to the woods at 1o2
and tells fairy tales of how George WASH
ington crossed the Delaware on cakes OF
ice.
Bombay and Bengal India. get 100 de-
grees for long periods. St. Peters burg
shades off one degree, getting 80 In Au7
gust One hundred degrees is the order
of the day from April to September in
Burmah.
The hottest parts of France are Toulon
and Hyeres, with 80 degrees, while Copen-
hagen, up in the mouth of the Baltic,
often reaches 50 degrees.
Many tropical countries escape extreme
heat. In the Sandwich Islands, the tenn
perature never goes above 80. Lima, Peru
has only So. In Central Mexico, in the
mountains, IS is the highest. In Natal
just east of Cape Town, the highest tenn
perature is go