The sun has poured down on us with tor
rid heat, and althaughit is about the season
of the year that *e might reasonably look
for such a phenomenon, nobody is satisfied
and everybody is grumbling. Ten days
ago you mighihave worn an overcoat. this
week you might have been stripped of your
skin, and even sitting, as Sidney Smith
said, "in your bones,' a man would have
felt uncomfortable. When the thermometer
rises above ninety in New York it inflicts
more positive misery on the miserable
wretches who live in the tenement houses
than when it strikes zero in winter. In the
seven and eight story tenement houses on
the narrow streets the atmosphere is insuaf
ferable. A hundred human beings crowded
together under a single roof; eight or ten
sleeping in a close room with no possible
ventilation; the horrors of the Black Hole
of Calcutta were nothing to it. It has been
a week of positive suffering, though the last
few days have been a slight improvement
over the early portion of the week.
There has been a rattling among the dry
bones in the detective squad, several of the
old members being laid on the shelf.
Since Jay Gould has taken to yatching we
see or hear but little of him on the stock
market. By the way, stocks got a little
boom this week, but we can hardly tell if
the dumn thing will stick.
The strife between Governor Cleveland
and the Tammany braves still continues.
The Governor has the sympathy of all re
spectable people. His policy in regard to
sectariannappropriations may kill him with
the politicians, but it has earned him the
respect of all just men, Republicans dr
Democrats.
Truly yours, BROADBRIM.
