The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-04
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1t is an i'll wind that blows nobody
good and even when there is no wind at
all, the soda water owners derive some
benefit. They have been kept busy for a
week fizzing out cooling draughts.
Swarms of people hung around the mar
bic counters in the drug stores at all
hours during the day, and ice cream, lem
on phosphate, strawberry and cream, va
nilla and chocolate and such commodities.
were far from being drugs on the mar
ket, in the common acceptation of the
term
My wrist is as sore as if had been
grinding an organ all day." said a pink
faced dealer of soda water last night at
one of the popular places, and as he spoke
he held six glasses all at once under the
nickel plated faucet and twisted on the
gurgling fiz. There has been a rush
here for soda water the last four days
such as one would expect in the stock ex-
change of New York when there was a
stampede.
What is the popular drink in hot wealth
er? Why, they are as numerous as the
pebbles on the beach. The women folks
go wild over sherbets. The men, they
call for anything that could possibly be
mixed, from straight soda to aromatic
spirits of ammonia. The nerve tonics
have come in for a good demand during
the heated term, for the hot sun does
certainly tear the nervous system to pieces
if you stay in 1t long. A good drink to
exhilirate one in seasons such as these is
quinine and aromatic spirits of ammonia
1t makes a good drink. Both the am
monia and the quinine are nerve tones
and aid digestion. The quinine also cuts
out any malaria that may be lurking In
ones system in tropical countries But
the great demand is for such drinks as
Vchy, mineral waters of all kinds phos-
plate with such syrups as lemon, orange,
cherry and such things"
All of the soda water fountains in the
city have been doing a thriving business
during the hot SPELL
The hot weather is not without its hui
morous side, and many a Joke has been
told about the heat and its results here
and there about town.
see 1t has been 104 in Atlanta" re-
marked one Of the fellows about town.
VINO is inclined not to take the weather
seriously, and the next thing YOU know
they will be growing over Savannah be.
cause we have only had it 102 this year. 1
saw one Atlanta man hurrying to leave
savannah and get back to Atlanta as soon
as ne saw in the papers that 1t had been
loi there and only 102 here He said he
knew that Atlanta would lead. as that was
Atlanta s way, and he wanted to get back
ana help join in the elation the people
OF the town must feel in having once
more come out ahead of all other cities
in the south"
One of the best stories that was told
was by a former New Yorker who Is now
residing in Savannah. Somebody had
twhted him, and told him that it would
De better there than it was her in Sa-
vannah -
Nonsense" he said. ''I well recall an
incident which shows that a Savannah
man IN New York going suddenly from
Inis climate would actually freeze in the
metropolis. l remember the fellow came
up py rail-. lie caught the shivers as
I'm as ne was there, and diod Of cold
CNereoats were put on him three Div. but
iaNed to warm him. He departed this
me- and his friends in Savannah vera
eeesraphed and came on to New York.
seVeral OF them. They said cremate him
mus was decided upon. and much to their
amazement, when they opened the fara
uoor or the urn the man was sitting an
IN the red-hot hrebox.
ror gracious sake close that door
,le Fellow exclaimed, L have lust been
ulaNed out. and feel like / was in Sa-
6a aNlah again, but the draft through that
eSool VIII give me a relapse, and | will
freeze again. Close 1t quick
a comparison Of the mean temperature
~ June Tor the last quarter century Is OF
lu,srest. The following S. from the rec
oras OF the weather bureau: