Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1892 — The Torrid Term. [ARTICLE]

The Torrid Term.

Corn is supposed to revel in this weather as wildly as a baby in possession of the molasses cup.—.vausas City Journal. As the city man reads in his newspaper how the “growing crops joyfully raise their heads to the smiling sun” he sighs to think he is not a crop; not even a corn-stalk.—Kansas City Star. Yes, It’s hot weather, but it’s making the corn jump. These nights you can hear the corn grow. If you don’t believe it, go into a corn-field and listen for the faint crackle that will be audible all around you.—Toledo Blade. One of the best ways to keep cool is to read cooling things, to imagine “squares of colored ice and cherries served in drifts of snow,” or “sandstrewn caverns, cool and deep, where the spent lights quiver and gleam. ” Milwaukee Sentinel. The weather is keeping pace with the fin de siecle. Thermometers make a rise in many directions to 92 in the shade. Doubtless it will continue to keep tall with the years until the mercury touches par and parboils New York. —New York Recorder.