Show HOT liot WEATHER IN ENGLAND the summer which is jur just passing away has been unprecedented in this generation in great britain for its heat and drouth the peculiarity of the weather they have had there has not been so much the intensity of the heat as its duration by the latest english papers dated from the middle to the last of august we are informed that the people of that country are now in the fourth month of a temperature which would be remarkable there if it lasted only eight and forty hours 3 may ay was as 8 hot as july and june brought gug b t no respite not only was there no ra rafn rain I 1 n to speak of during that time but t there here h bere ere was vas no moisture in the air three hot days and a thunder storm has been the sarcastic definition of an english summer this year such a definition would not apply thero there has been a season of what an englishman would in that country call very hot weather without any thunderstorms to correct the result the steady heat beat has been treated as a national topic yet the death rate has not been high there has been considerable sid erable complaint about poor health and invalids have been very common but the mortality except among infants has not been very high the last report of the registrar general of london gives 26 per 1000 as the mortality in that city the people have severely felt the absence of the intermission or change in the weather to which in that climate they are accustomed accas tomed the year 1826 1626 in england was remarkably hot and dry miss martineau in her history of england during the thirty years peace in alluding to it relates that thero there erg erp was so little grass that the tho cattle were fed on dry fodder on the richest meadow lands in england glaud gland which were brown lind and burnt as if a fire had passed over them the deer doer in nob lemens parks died of drought ponds and aad reservoirs were shrunk to muddy pools hardworking hard working people sat up all night cowatch to watch the springs soine some to carry home drink to their children others to have a commodity of cold water to sell in the morning in somo high lying towns the tho richest people mado made presents to each other of little pitchers pitch lers of freshwater fresh water vaten during that year it ift was said also that deaths from sunstroke were not confined to laborers in the tho field and on the tho road but extended to persons engaged in elections the hot weather this tills summer has been felt more by the people of england than a higher temperature than usual would be in countries where heat is more common they are unfitted by habits aud arrangements for such heat as they have recently had they can make themselves as warm as they wish in des pite of cold in that country but they are arc helpless so far as keeping their houses cool they have no device neither are any of their buildings constructed with rith a view to diminish nish hish heat the past season has been an asep eze exe P vonal one also in tho the eastern easter n states the thermometer has remained steadily at a higher point than it has been known to do cpr many years the tho deaths from heat have been frightful we have had hot weather here this summer but there are several causes which combine to make atless it less oppressive and fatal to lifo life than the fhe same amount of heat in other places ours oure our hade shade trees which grow so luxuriantly and abundantly on all the side sidewalks walks the crystal streams of cool water which run down all our streets and the cooling winds from the canons which render our evenings so pleasant and delightful enable the people of utah to enjoy refreshing and luxurious sleep even in the hottest weather the season east and in great britain has been exceptional on account of the drouth in this territory it has been exceptional because of the heavy rainfall we have never had since our settlement of this thia valley such an amount of rain in any one season beason as we have had this to this remarkable weather we may attribute the preservation of dur our crops from the deadly ravages of the grasshoppers the rain has washed their poisonous virus off from the vegetation and given it new life had the season reason been a dry one it is probable that many fields of grain which shave yielded leaded good crops would have perished I 1 it it is worthy of remark that the season has been more than usually healthy especially among children we understand st nd the death rate of children for august of this thia year has been much lower than it has been in the same month for a number of years |