The evening times., 1897-07-07
NO GOODNESS YET IN SIGHT
Weather Prophet Holds Gut No
Hope to WaShingtonians.
PERHAPS SHOWERS NAY FALL
Maximum Temperature Yesterday
Was fwo-Precautions tu
Light Diet and Abstinence From
Alcoholic Drinks "A Specific.
The weather sage holds ont no hope

The weather sage holds ont no hope
He was sitting on a wet sponge and
watching an ioe wagon that rolled along
the sunseared street without He had been
indu!gipg in some luxury with mint in Il,
ard his coat, shirt, pants and shoes we've
hanging on nail.
Il can't do anything for You tins morn
ing said the sage, in vain effort 10 give
The Times reporter a cool reception
''Tnere will be mo sleighing ia the W hite
Lot this afternoon, continued he, unless
lhe indications are misleading. Unless ap-
pearances are extraordinarily decepti fe,
there viii be no co.iar bones broken Toy
Slipping on fcy pavements. The only isd-
wee have % offer you today is TO renove
your shirt, buy bigger fan, order more
beer ard await Developments
At O'Clock this morning the official
mercury OF the Weather Bureau registered
76 degrees. 1t was as hot as any other
morning during this spell. Only two other
mornings have been as warm. Ats O'cack
the mercury had ,linbed TO - aud was
stin soaring. II is probable that this will
be She hottest day of the season. There
is no relief in sight.
The forecast for the District of Co
luInhia Delaware. Maryland and Virginia
is: Probably local showers, followed
Thursday by far weather; stationary tenn
perature. variable winds"
The phrase probably local showers
was inserted I0t that there is any rain
headed this way, but simply that swell
tcrins men and seeth.ng women NAV
have a hook 10 hang a hope on. The same
probability was prophesied yesterday.
There is n 81" 10 the north of us and
onr 10 the south OF us.
The weather sage. af5er lookingearnestly
Into the face OF a curious parchment paint
eG witt tangled. snake-liGe lines OF ned
and blue and black, shook hiS head f0I-
lOmly aud in melsnchoiy tones said. My
fcllow-citizens must sweat"
At7 s'cluck thIs morning the EUttest 81 city
IA the United Sta-es was st Louis, where
the mercury stood at 81 The coolest city
was Helena, Mont, where the quicksilver
was down TO 46 The maximum tempeIa-
tUre at Washington yesterday was 81 and
the minimum laS' night was 72
The most inilammatDry town in the coun-
try yesterday was Phoenix, Anz -lo2,
though ConcuTc.a, Kans, Was a good sec
ond scoring 90. Quebec was two degrees
hotter than Washington; so. TOO, We're Al
hdny, \. Y. Charlotte, y. c Nashville,
Tenn. IRdiaha polls, st Louis, Cairo, Onla-
la, Bdro3, :. u; Denver and FL Paso.
6tiser higher temperatures than at Wash
iigtOn were Little Rock. 100: Palestine,
Tea, S6; Memphis, sc; North Platte. Neb
So; Pueblo. Colo 9S: Dodge City. Kaas
SS and Oklah homa CITY, 9S
II vas coo, along the Pacific coast At
San FranciScC the mercury reGistered SO;
Los Angeles, "a; Seattle, 81; Portland,
81 II was comfortable away down IN the
penlnsIla of Florida At Jupiter it was
Sd. AtKey West il was So
The usual signs OF heat suffering are be-
ginning 70 appear in this city. II this
weather continues two or three dav longrr
the hospitals viii ne crowded with heat
cases. In former years. at about the close
OF 'he first week OF hot weather, the po-
lice begin TO find dead men When the
spell sets in men begin to drink TO keep
Copl. They drink more as the heat in
creases. ard are later picked up dasd
Nine-.enths of the mysterious deaths in
Washington during the bot wave Of last
summer were determined by the coroner
10 hdNt feh uue. IN a measure, 10 akOlOl-
isis. Most OF the heat cases treated at
Emergency and Freedman = Hospitals
curing the same period were either very
old people, OF people who had been drink
ing heavily.
The men at the hospitals and the physi-
clans prescribe a very light diet Tie less
meats and fats the better "Dnnk moth
ing TO stimulate the circulation and keep
quiet is the gist OF what they told The
Times man