The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-09

| Pittsburg Ninety-three degree!
was the official temperature, with 101
registered on the streets. Four deaths
directly due to the heat were reported
New York-There were four deaths
from heat in Greater New York to-
day, and countless prostrations. The
maximum temperature was Sc.
Philadelphia-Six deaths were re-
ported as due to the heat here. Nine
ty degrees were registered.
-.-'- te
New York.-Although an amateur,
Clifford B. Harmon broke all Ameri-
can records for length, of time in the
air in continuous aerOplane flight
at Mineola, Long Island. He remain
ed aloft in a Curtiss biplane for two
hourts and three minutes and de-
scended only when his supply of gasO-
line was exhausted.
Washington-In a fight late last
night resulting from clashes between
negroes and whites over the cham
pionship battle at Reno. Thomas Mutt
die, an enlisted man of the United
States marine corpsfi had his throat
cut and is at hospital in a serious
condition.
Another white man who was found
unconscious late at night in Pennsyl-
Yania avenue, after a free for all
tight. was taken to the hospital, where
1t was discovered he had sustained 1
conclusion of the brain
Several other participants in street
fights were reported severely injured,
but no fatalities resulted.
London-What may be called the
bacchometer a thermometricaI scale
OF sobriety and drunkenness. is anus
1rgly described the Liverpool police
report issued by Leonard Dunn,ng.
head constable of the city.
one cannot of course, pretend TO
measure sobriety and drunkenness
with the thermometer, but the diff
Guilty may best be illustrated bv a
comparison with a test which is sc
made. Take 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
rreezing point, as the highest point of
absolute socriety, what is the flash
point at which the law against drunk
enness is to come into operation.
But though sobriety and degrees of
departure from sobriety cannot he
measured with thermometer we can
still use this simile to illustrate the
practical difficulties which arise from
the fact that they are really measured
py personal opinion, and that no two
people agree about them.
rake concrete case of a man seen
IN puollc house and said to have de-
parted from sobriety and the differ
ent opinions of his condition which
might be expressed by a number of
persons representing varying shades
of thought:
L. A total abstainer. with strong
views upon the wickedness of usine
alcohol: 1882 degrees, beastlv drunk .
z. A temperance reformer of lees
advanced views: go degrees. drunk
and incapable
3. 4, and 6. Men in street:
90 degrees. drunk, but able to take
not say that he is drunk"
40 degrees, under the Influence of
drink" u
"S5 degrees, slightly under the in
fluence of drink"
Publican Says Sober.
Z. The man who says that licensing
legislation is legalized robbery: "33 |
degrees, as sober as 1 am myself at |
this minute
8. The publican who served him
last: "S2 degrese, perfectly sober
When served him last"
8. The doctor called in by No. 8:
go degrees, showed no sign of drink
whatever when ] examined him"
10. The man himself: go degrees.
painfully sober; almost in a state of
collapse for want of a drink
Some of these opinions add Mr..
Ounning, will be opinions honestly
,ormed and believed and all would
hesitation be repeated on oath
n a court of justice"
Berlin-True to his promise, to
tand as godfather to the eighth child
n any German family, rich or poor,
he kaiser at Berlin recently attended
he christening of the eighth boy of a
louse painter named Busch, of Boch-
ut. Herr Busch has received a sum