Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-07-30

| to cost over ten dollars each, could be sold to
day in Washington, even if so designed as t.
fan only single person at time. Our ides
is to have clock.work drive a light racket
moving very light fan with surface o
from one to two square feet only, the whole
machinery not to be heavier than a medium
| sized Yankee clock, and to be movable, so q!
o run when placed on table, in chair, or
the floor, or wherever the convenience of the
user may require. 1t strikes US that with very
little more labor in winding than is necessary
with Yankee clock, such a machine may be
made to run twelve, if not twenty.four hours
Whoever takes out patent for successful
invention Of the sort may realize hundreds Of
| thousands of dollars from it during the next
summer. ..
The Weather Abroad.-From the scientific
journals, just received from Europe by the
Smithsonian Institution, we extract the fol-
owing:
At the Horticultural Society's Garden, near
London, the mean temperature of the mouth
OF may was. ............. 40. 90 ueg.
Mean temperature of May, 1885,. ..50.07
Mean temperature of May for the
last twenty-nine years. ..........537 ~
Mean barometer. TIA
Average amount of rain in May. IL. S5inch.
This shows the month to have been uncom-
monty cold, nearly five degrees lower than
the average for twenty-nine years, and lower
than that of any May during twenty-eight
years of observation.
At Arbroath, Scotland, during the year 1854,
the thermometer was highest at 81 a. m, on
the 23d and 25th June-69 deg; wind west;
was lowest on Sd January-1S deg; wind
northwest.
Thermometer at Il p. m, was highest on
I'D July and 9th August-wind southeast
and southwest Coolest day I'd January;
thermometer was % deg. Hottest day 9th
August, when the average was 81 deg. Cold
st month, January hottest, July; wettest,
November; dryest, April. Mean temperature
f the year, 81 mean temperature of eleven
years, 45:6.
Tho General Land 0ffce.-We, day OF
two since, contradicted the story that the COM
missionership of this Office had been rendered
to some one from Illinois, referred to in the
correspondence of the Baltimore Sun. To-day,
we hear the rumor repeated on the Avenue
No such thing has occurred, we are satisfied
Che only tender of this position, since the re-
noval Of the late chief of the bureau, Occun -
when that event took place. We here refer
% the tender of the permanent commissioner
ship to our felow-citizen, Joseph s. Wilson,
ESQ.,, the so accomplished, experienced, and
useful chief clerk of the bureau.
We are persuaded that nothing but his re-
,ationship with the removed Commissioner in
terfered with his acceptance of the position
and regret sincerely, on account of the public
interest, that he felt called on to decline tn
tender which involved the highest possible
compliment to his ability as 4 public officer
that could be paid to him.
The Wheat-in this region Of country, turns
out much less to the acre than we anticipated
before the crop was harvested. The g winter
Killing" did more harm to the stand than could
De perceived on the edges of the fields The
stalks that fourished, however, were much
more prolific than ever before (within our
observatory around Washington. The aggre-
gate yield is hardly greater than that of the
last previous season; as though many planted
Lore acres than before, some who suffered
much from the joint worm last year sOwoL
much less than on that occasion or none, Oh
that account.
Awarded.-The contract for the construction
Of the custom-house to be built at Oswego, n
Y, has been awarded to Mr.. Edwin B. Soule
Of that place, at SIT, 255, he being the lowest
bidder for the work.
The Current Operations Of the Treasury
epaltment.-On Saturday, the 18th of July
here were Of Treasury Warrants entered Oh
the books Of the Department
For the Treasury Department.. S39O2 s.
tor the Interior Department.. 81 929 IS
FOR he Customs. INSTRUMENTATION. 81, 800 90
War Warrants received and en-
tered ....................... 1910 81
W ar repay warrants. ........... 81, 220 "a
Covered in from Customs ....... lS9 so
On account Of the Navy......... 61,73O 90
PERENNIAL