Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1883 — A Few Heated Remarks. [ARTICLE]

A Few Heated Remarks.

An Austin man was indirectly prostrated by the heat one day last week. It was not so much, however, by the heat of the sun as it was by a remark made by his wife, who enjoys warmcolored hair and a corresponding temperament. They were walking on the street, and his wife endeavored to inveigle him into the purchase of a thermometer by which to more readily ascertain how hot it was. “It is no kind of use to have a thermometer in the house,” replied the man. “It would indicate a much higher degree of heat inside than there was outside.” “Why so?” sharply inquired his wife. “That head of yours would run it up to 375 in the dead of winter.” “It would, would it? you miserable old galvanized cadaver,” said his wife. “I just think myself that it might be just as well not to have a thermometer in the house, for if you ever brought that sizzling red nose of yours into proximity to it, it would run up so that boiling water sprinkled around the room would cool the atmosphere.— Texas Siftings.