HOW THE MERCURY WENT UP.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 62, 13 November 1880, Page 2 (Supplement)

HOW THE MERCURY WENT UP.

A* eleven o'clock yesterday forenoon, a citizen, about 70 yeara old, eat under an awning on Michigan avenue, . cool, placid, and contented, and the mercury of his feeiings down tp,about sixty. He might soon have fallen asleep, but along came another old citizen about the same age and stopped for a moment to fan' his heated face. < - " Purty warm out ?•" queried the .first. " Well, yes; but if some of these young men who are perspiring round, here to-day had lived in June, 1829, I guess (they'd know what hot weather was. I' tell you that was a scorcher, and no mistake.'! ••June '29. Now, let's see. Aren't you a little. offP" "'No, sirj .1 remember all about it. It was so hot from the Bth to the 25th that men could not work in the fields, and hundreds Of cattle died from the heat." > "You are" off jast a year," said the other, beginning to wake up. " Irwaa in 1828. I "remember it, because I ran for office that fall." ' «• I can't help about your running for office. I' know it was in '29, because I broke my leg that' year." ' "I don't care if you broke yonr.neck- J exclaimed the other, his mercury rising to eiflhty-six degrees at a single jump. "I guess I know., what year I ran for office ! f l I say it was in '29, and I've got a diary to prove it !" ■ • ,"'"-«. "Audl've. got two diaries to prove *t waß in '28 T You are talking to aa old pioneer, sir 1" %. "And so are you — one who» heard tne wolves howling before you. were born ! Don't imagine that you know it all ! - • " What'sthe dispute ?" asked a customer who came out of the Btore. " Why, Bir, I have been called a liar by that person there J'? replied the first. ""If I wasn't so oldTd drop him inhiatrackß ! "And he's called me a liar I" shouted the second. " I'm five years older -than he is, but if te wants to try any drops on me I'll clear him of the law. I say' it was m 1829 !" . " It wasn't ; it was in '28 J" "Lookou,t! fl • . « Look out yourself !"' * ;; : '« Don't tick my nose again, or I'll hit yon!" ' ' • "Don't own aw hack or I'll do you injury." • And but for the younger man. those two old pioneerß would have tackled each, other about a hot June which neither probably had correct within five years; and- which, doubtless, was a good deal cooler than any other June they ever^saw. They started off in different directions to hunt up old diaries andprove each other falsifiers, and in future they won't hitch along for each. efche* on the atreet-o&rg, won't drink from the same soda fountain if they know it, and seeing other across "ttie street will growl out: , t »-' . i_ " There should be a law to prevent suon an old liar from running at", large !"— Detroit Free Press.