The Saint Paul globe., 1897-07-02
SOILS DAY TO SHINE
AND HE BEAT A LIVELY TUNE ON
THE BULBOUS TANKS OF
MERCURY.
HUMAN SMILES DRIPPED
WITH THE PERSPIRATION INDUCED
By THE WARMTH OF HIS
GREETING.
AWAY UP IN THE NINETIEs.
The Mercury Climbed Early and
Stayed Late TO Get in Full
Day.

Old Sol must have shaken out the
folds of his bicycle bloomers yesterday
and handed out the very best ne had
in stock, and lots of it. He kept hand
ing it out so rapidly that the ther-
mometers donned their racing clothes,
and did some tail scorching toward the
top Of the glass. There have undoubt-
edly been some warmer days during
the summer, but more sultry-never.
From early morning till long past
noon the heat steadily became more
oppressive, and, while the weather man
says the best be got up in his cham
Der was SS degrees, the common NOR
tails who lived and walked on mother
earth can see him and go several de-
grees better.
Even the bicycle girl, who is, sup
posed to be almost irrepressible, by
heat or anything else felt the sitting
atmosphere trifle unpleasant and
the .bloomer-like sleeves of her Shirt
waist; dropped and dropped
"Whew," she whispered softly, as
she let up on her scorching for a few
minutes; in order to wipe the perspira-
ton from her forehead, "this is
scorcher." which remark, though by
no means original, was an exceedingly
popular one yesterday.
The ice cream stands were the Mec-
cas-, around which gathered the youth
and beauty, as we'll as the bone and
sinew of the Sanity city, to alleviate
the. unpleasant thirst caused by the
overabundance of "OId SoPs" exuber-
ance. "Ice cream soda for two" "Soda
with lemon and vanilla" and other re-
marks indicative of impatience be-
cause he or she could not be waited
on at once made the young men in
charge of the soda fountains yearn
and pray that never again during the
present summer should mankind suf-
fer from the heat in the same degree
as yesterday.
Not a breath of air, not even suf1l-
cient to fan the leaves of the trees in
the city parks into a rustic, served to
relieve the pent-up feelings Of all, and
those who sought these parks in the
hope that there at least they would
get a breath of fresh air" sank into
the rustic seats, and quietly sue
cumbed for the time being.
The small boy, who has been saving
his pennies for several months past in
anticipation of the GLORIOUS Fourth"
could not resist the temptation to pur-
chase ice cream, or some cooling
draught to quench his thirst, and the
fire cracker merchant will lose a por-
ton of his holiday trade in conse-
quence.
Shortly after 8 o'clock last evening,
when the thermometer remained at an
altitude of "a degrees in the near vi
cinity, the usually wide-awake young
man in charge of the night lunch doing
business at the corner of Third and
Wabasha streets, after sundry en-
deavors to shake off that drowsy feel
ing," sat down on his counter and
gently famed himself to sleep.
Altogether the day was seorcher.
Early in the day the sun gave evil
dence Of it's tendency towards spring
ing something special in the way of
heat, and at noon a thermometer at
Robert and Fourth streets, registered
81 degrees in the shade.
Observer P. F. Lyons, of the United
States weather bureau, says that the
weather at st. Paul and vicinity dur
ing the month of June, 1897, was rath-
er tickle; 1t was unusually cold up to
the 18th, then the temperature took
sudden bound upwards, and scored the