Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-09
The Weather Mans Countenance Be-
trays His Feelings.
BE EXPRESSES BIS DISCOURhGEMENT
Other Cities Are Suffering More
Than is Washington.


The weather man had the appearance OF
an executioner or undertaken when The
Star reporter went out to the bureau to-
Gay. All that was needed to complete the
resemblance was black mask or piece
of Grape.
It's no use.' he said, mournfully, he
looked up with woebegone expression on
his countenance. I'VE can't coax it, cajole
it, induce it, or persuade it in any manner
to depart.
Yesterday" he continued, as a drop of
rerspil alton large a torpedo fell from
the end of his nose and exploded on the
ia BILE, I'VE put up big game of bluff. We
wore our winter Clothes kept the windows
down, talked of skates and snowballs and
Gid everything we could to make believe
1t was winter, hoping in this manner the
heat demon would be isguSted and leave
for somewhere else.
1T was too clever for US, and raised us
one or two chips, SO to speak, and We had
to lay down and quit the game
He paused for "a moment. exhausted, then,
with trembling foretineer, he pointed to
the black and red lines on the map, which
had just been made out.
DO you see anything strange about
that?' lie inquired in a husky voice.
Horrible Grin.
The reporter gazed for moment, and
then his eyes bulged with horror. Plainly
the features were discerned formed into
horrible grin. traced in red ink, of the
gentleman the mention of whose name is
said to inspire his presence. Worse still,
as if to make the matter all the more GER
! tain, close by on the map was most sug-
gestive emblem. 1t was plainly the trac-
ing of a cloven foot.
indications are for continued high tenn
perature," the weather man said, in a hol-
| low voice, for who could gainsay such
III ths.f Nh., ma
completed before the terrible omens were
noticed
| 1t is just about as warm today as yes
| tel day, with the same conditions prevail
ing. The temperature at a IN. was I6 de-
! grees while the humidity was only IS de-
| grees. 1t was S3 degrees at noon.
Others Worse Of.
Washington is not suffering near much
as are some of the other cities. At o'clock
| this morning the temperature 81 de-
| grees in Chicago and St. Louis: 50 degrees
| in Louisville, 81 in Indianapolis and in
| Cincinnati - degrees. New York had a
| ma aximum temperature of 50 degrees yes
| terday, and a temperature of q degrees at
| S am. today Atlantic City had an east
| wind this morning at : O'Clock, with a
| temporal ture of - degrees. The maximum
| temperature there yesterday was IS de-
| grees. In Philadelphia this morning the
mercury registered "a degrees.
! The maximum temperature yesterday in
| Winnemucca, New, was "A degrees, with
| a minimum of 36 degrees. Eastport, Me-.
| had a maximum of 6S degrees yesterday
| and a minimum of 30. At O'Clock this
| morning it 66 degrees there.
| At the Top of the Heap.
| Concordia, Kan. was the winner yester-
| day in the chase for the prize at the top
| of the mercury tube in the thermometer,
| with 102 degrees to its credit. Huron was
| 100 degrees while Phoenix, Ariz., was
plainly tired py it's efforts of the last ten
| days and was not in it at 9S degrees. The
! minimum there yesterday was 20 degrees
| Eureka, Cal, yesterday mad a maximum Of
| only 62 degrees, while Seattle's highest
| temperature was 76 degrees and Williston,
| n. D., 66 degrees.
| The high ard low playing pranks
| out west and the west is the loser thereby.
| One of these crooks by itself is enough.
| but when they travel in couples there Is
| trouble for the sections they visit
| According to the statistics OF the weather
! bureau the average morning and afternoon
| tempera lures for the first day of July for
the last twenty years here is IS and IS de-
| grees, respectively.
At 2 pm. the local thermometer regis
| tered 81 degrees.
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