Show THE HOTTEST SUMMER THE present is the hottest summer so far ever experienced in this century or the greater portion of the last this is not generally known and may not be widely accepted but it to is a fact nevertheless it is not meant that there have not been seasons in which there were hotter days but that the average or mean temperature of the season from the beginning to the present time is in excess of any other record during the same period since 1719 this being the first year that al observations of the kind were taken it is to berlin astronomers that we are indebted for the official information though any one who has kept an ordinary reckoning from year to year and has a good memory for that sort of thing can easily form the conclusion for himself so far back as his experience goes it is we all understand the custom for some people tode to declare an unusually hot day the hottest they ever experienced and the same thing occurs with reference to cold ones and perhaps it dues does feel that way to them though they may have undergone several degrees warmer or colder weather as the case maybe may be it is not that class clam who keep the run of the hie temperature at all but those who note with interest the night flight or depression of yie the mercury day after day and can turn to and compare with any past year of recent times the same as they would turn back the leaves of a book and read that constitute the abstract an brief chronicles of the times almost as correctly in the main if not as accurately as the scientists the judgment of the former and the tablets of the later sustain the conclusion stated at the beginning of this article and those in this city who have been unable to sleep till after midnight for several nights in succession will hardly be among those who dis dispute p ute it it is truly a torrid summer with us the unpleasantness being greatly augmented by drouth |