The Holbrook news., 1911-11-10

July II, 101; on the same date St. Louis, 100; Knoxville, Tenn, July 13. 103; Charleston. July 14, III (16 deaths); Detroit, July 1s. 1o2; New York. July IT. 101.
 Thought the End Had Come.
 In 1881 1t is said the heat through out the United States was the great est on record. the thermometer in many places registering 1O5 degrees in the shade In England the mer. cury ranged from 90 to 101 degrees, and in Paris e3 degrees. The heat continued with brief intermission through July and August into Septem- Der. In Richmond the thermometer registered 105 degrees; in Washing toAy y104; in Baltimore. Wilmington, Philadelphia, Rochester and elsewhere from 9s to 100; yet on September 2 snow fell in Deadwood. s. D.. to the depth of five inches, and at Bald mountain the snow was two feet deep. During the month of September the thermometer in places registered as high as 106 degrees and great forest fires broke out and ragged in different parts of the country. On September a day of darkness broke over the country, being worse over the New England states, and the .superstitious were badly frightened. The Connecti- cut legislature, in a belief that the end of the world was approaching, ad- journed. A strange greenish-yellow pail overspread the heavens, and so darkened the light of the sun that lamps and gas were lighted, schools and factories closed. and multitudes of the ignorant and superstitious be- lieved that the day of judgment had come.
 Everything looked changed and un- natural. The faces of the people on the street were ghastly, the gas jets in the stores, instead of showing vel low, were as white and clear as cleo tric lights, and thousands of the sect known as the Second Adventists gath cred in their places of worship and confidently awaited the appearance of the Lord. The dark day was more wonderful in the country. The leaves and whitening foliage assumed a most singular tint of green, changing like that of grass to a brownish hue; fowls went to roost. and the animal creation must have been greatly mys- tif1ed by phenomenon such as they had never before witnessed
 A curious feature of this luminous haze was that it cast no shadow It was as light under the trees as away from them, the whole unnatural ap- pesrance of things most likely being due to the immense forest fires, which were raging in many parts of the country.
 Other Hot VIsItatIons.
 The months of June and July, 1882 were notably oppressive. On the 18th of July ss children in New York city died from the effects of the heat. Car horses fell in their traces; drivers dropped from their seats on trucks and wagons. Broadway was like great transparent flame of fire. Busi. ness was partially suspended and many workshops were closed. The crowded parts of New York on the east and west sides were filled with families mourning their dead, and un. dertakers went their busy rounds as If an epidemic prevailed Seven hun dred and seventy-nine little ones died during this period from diseases super. induced by the heat
 The month of August, 1896, was very hot and for a period O. five days the thermometer ranged from eS to 100 degrees. Hundreds died of sun. stroke. The year 1900 was also
 
 three in June, 15 in July. IT in August and four in September-a total of A days-the thermometer ranged from 90 degrees upward, and in places weuf above the 100 mark.