Emery County Progress | 1906-09-22 | Page 3 | Odds on the Temperature

on fae temperature the heat and a laciny chart go to an orderly s head one hot day when the command ants office at the navy yard seemed to the officers and clerks to be hotter than the of a battleship a marine orderly was seated outside of the admiral s room with a morning paper before him he yawned now and then as he listlessly scanned its columns and it was with beening dif faculty that he kept himself awake finally however he reach d the racing section life seemed more real and earnest then and his inhere t was aroused with a stub of pencil he went over the list of entries for the day s races at Birgh ton doping out the sure things he was soon bened deep in calculation with moving lips and ruffled brow and was totally lous to the fact that the mercury lr the thermo menter on the wall above bis head was climbing higher and higher presently ar officer stepped out of of the adjoining rooms j whew he said mopping his brow hot as orderly the tempera ture the orderly sprang to his feet and saluted odds sure thing and the officer s question got all tangled up in his mind temperature sir he rebated vaguely then he glanced hastily at the thermometer and answard tern pera ture s at 90 to one sir