Eureka Reporter | 1906-09-21 | Page 6 | Odds on the Temperature

odds on the temperature the heat and a racing 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 stoke hole of a battleship a marine orderly was seated outside of the admiral s room with morning paper before him he yawned now and then as he listlessly scanned its columns and it was with beening dif acuity that he kept himself awake finally however he reached the racing section life seemed more real and earnest then and his intyre t was aroused with a stub of pencil he went over the list of entries foi the days races at Birgh ton doping out the sure things he was soon buried deep in calculation with moving lips and ruffled brow and was totally ious to the fact that the mercury in the thermo menter on the wall above his head was climbing higher and higher presently officer stepped out ot one of the adjoining rooms 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 tures at 90 to one sir