[PRCo] Re: Feeling a little too hot and humid?

[Fred Schneider]

Samuel Clemens wrote under the pen name Mark Twain.   Same guy,  
Boris.   He was a former Mississippi River captain before the Civil  
War.   The expression Mark Twain was a term meaning an adequate river  
depth for sailing ... I'm not exactly sure how many fathoms or feet  
or meters without researching it.   Later in his life Clemens adopted  
that name for his writing.

On Jul 29, 2006, at 12:20 PM, Boris Cefer wrote:

> We have around 95 these days!
> Didn't the same (or that?) comment come from Mark Twain?
>
> B
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 6:04 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Feeling a little too hot and humid?
>
>
>> I feel sorry for Holland knowing how unseasonably hot its been in San
>> Francisco.   (I remember the story by, I think originally, Samuel
>> Clemens, that the "coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San
>> Francisco."   So when I saw those 90 degree readings in the city, I
>> knew Jim had to be suffering.   Do they even have air-conditioned
>> buses in the city?   I would imagine not because it seldom gets above
>> the 70s.
>>
>> I went to Newark yesterday to photograph the downtown portion of the
>> new Broad Street extension of the "Newark City Railway" ... walked a
>> mile in 95 degree heat and my wife said I looked terrible when I got
>> home.   Felt dizzy this morning.   But I did get the pitchurs.
>>
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