Evening star., 1898-06-13
Washington Learning the Weather
Lesson That Spring is Gone.
LOWER AIR STRATA STAGNAET
Showers All Around the District,
but None Come to Cool Us.
NO NGE E ECTE D

The humble bee scarce hovers over sweet
red clover heads:
He's too blamed warm TO care for tn eir de-
lights.
The blooming flowers. dropping, would be
happy If their beds
Were of the kind that's only used OF
nights.
The army mule. detected. hangs his head
between his knees,
And cen forgets the prowess of his heels;
While the motorman, WHO scornfully ere
ates himself a breeze,
Is the only thing alive that comfort feels.
Yet to make existence bitterer and suicide
balm
There waddles onnipresently in view
Those fellows in alpaca coats, with waving
fans of palm.
Who inquire rs it hot enough for you?
Those fellows were everywhere Saturday.
Their numbers increased in arithmeticdl
proportion yesterday. and this morning be-
fore the breeze started and the clouds be-
gan to curtain the sun they were out in
force adding to the sum of human misery.
They were the same individuals who asked
You when the mercury was rolling itself
winter. If it was cold enough for you, in
voices that rolled from the cavernous
depths of heavy storm coat collars.
But that's the way of the world. ard
there's no use kicking against such peo-
pie because it only makes respiration
more copious and the prickly heat more
diScomforting.
The reason for this hot weather is merely
the usual one Summer is announcing her
self and letting people know that spring is
entirely out of the running. There are pc
culiar atmospheric conditions existing also
that account for the prevailing heat and
the Accommodating hIImjaity For a week
there has been little or no perceptible
change in the weather all over the coun-
try. A high has hung over the gulf
states, and another high has elevated
itself out in Montana and thereabouts. and
have stuck. Consequently the lower strata
of air in all the states which people breathe
and I'LL their bicycle tires with is in a state
of stagnation.
Professor Bgelow. who is doing the fore
casting for this month at the weather bu-
reau, said this morning that Washing ton
presented unusual difficulties in the way of
forecasting at present.
For week very curious conditions have
been evident here. said he to The Star re-
porter. To the north and south and east
and west of us there have been plentiful
showers. but save the short rain Friday
night Washington has been left virtually
high and dry.
There are no 1ndica tions of any change
in the weather" he continued. TT will
scarcely be so warm today as it was yester-
day, but the present condition will probably
prevail until some decided cNanSe occurs
in the position of those highs TO the south
and ont in the northwest
The mercury reached 81 yesterday but
there We're no pros trations. Saturday with
the record So the humidity made the heat
seem much greater, and the first victim
of the heat in 1895 was recorded. Andrew
Martin, postal telegraph messenger boy,
fourteen years old, who lives on Benning
road was overcome at t o'clock and treat
ed at the Emergency Hospital He was out
of danger in a few hours and entirely re-
covered last night
The air cooled considerably last night.
the record at am. being 6S, and conse-
quently sleep was possible Tine electric
cars yesterday carried immense crowds.
and babies in their nurses and parents
arms were remarkably numerous
They are inf: ntile life savers, those
electric cars are" said fond parent last
night. L never knew anything to relieve
an overheated little one like ride in one
of them