| Show A PATIENT MAN the express announces that it wll will publish hereafter a daily record of the tile weather we as kept by A 1 I mathews co at err th their er d drugstore drug 0 store the tha most our enterprise enter prie will allow will be to publish the same record once a weeke week with an occasional chronicling chroni clin cling ofa of opa a particularly mean maan day if the ilia express hazo had buffered suffered from weather records as we have it would iet lat them alone we will give our experience as a warning ta young men three years ago we became convinced that climate was a study we sent to philadelphia for instruments then sent the castr 11 ments to washington and had bad them tested at the national observatory and oil on their return we went we nt to work for F or two mortal years we made mada three observations daily of the following fol loving conditions dit ions the winds which way they blew and how hard they blow the clouds how much of the sky they covered which way they were vero traveling and what kind of clouds they cirrus cumulus nimbus or stratus alne rain how much acl fell and how many hours it fell the tho barometer the temperature of the air and the temperature temper aure of evaporation with an occasional turn at solar radiation drying power and ozone not content contant with this we brushed up our mathematics and posted up on a lot of algebraic formula by which wo we were able ablo to reduce from our observations the dew point the degree of saturation and the actual weight of moisture I 1 in n a cubic cuble foot of air very soon we got at some somo important resells reanita and published them whereupon an old gentleman who could not have reduced a dew point to save ils his lis captious old soul pitched into us called us an ignoramus ran ian oramus and a wilful of the truth we WO let newspapers alone after that and kept at work we were constantly haunted ila lla anted by tha tho necessity of an observation to be made at a certain hour sometimes we would forget our night observation and thinking of it just as we got warm in bed beds would take a light and promenade the back yard in the cold with only a shirt ou on rather than omit one of those precious facts it was a perfect incubus a constant restraint upon our personal liberty however at the end of a year we had accumulated observations of each ench condition and condensed them into a report written in our best scientific style we took it to philadelphia and read it at a scientific convention ven tion we were told it was very interesting and came home minus the tha expenses of the trip but plus some glory the association published the tile report and the scientific journals puffed it we wanted a little home puffing and sent copies to the press the local editors all acknowledged its receipt recel pt and one of them with a good taste for which he la Is remarkable informed his readers that really something good it had ad come out of nazareth th 1 I the blockhead to add to our difficulties we soon found ourselves engaged in an extensive correspondence with other what long letters they used to write us I 1 Ano another thel year we worked faithfully so far as the unfailing record of tivo two years is concerned we had established a theory which we believe will last but up to this day we receive pamphlets from distant parts of tile the country c con on trover ting the views which we held heid ad aad b llave avotte the comfort of seeing that the donkeys who write them have no idea of the principle prid ciple involved and from sheer ignorance of common cornmon natural laws are entirely incapable of compre comprehending hending bending us we stopped our experiments at theand tha end of the second year and when relieved from the tha treadmill labor of thee these calculations we foit folt fr it like a man j just out of jail jall bufi buffalo buff dlo alo commercial |
