Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-09-01
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

TIE WKATHIR DURING AU0UuT.-The monthly
| meteorological summary issued by the Signal
ONCE shows that the mean temperature OF the
| month OF August was "a degrees. The highest
Iemperature 81 was on the sth, ana 1ne loves ss
| same as for the same month In 1854, ana one oe.
| gree higher than In the past three years. Inc
total precipitation was as inches ana on Inir-
| ton.
SECOND LIEUT.. z. S. Avs, 5th Infantry, has been
detailed as professor OF military science at the
University OF West virginia, at Morgantown, re-
lieving First Lieut.. j. l. Wilson. 4th artillery.
PRoxorED-Herbert L Buell. and Jno. B. Mich
OILS, once OF Chief OF Engineers, have been pro-
NOTED from class 81 900 TO 81 zoo
RETURN OF TIE PRESIDENTIAL FISHING PARrY.-
The President Col Lamont and Commissioner
Miller left Clifton Forge yesterday afternoon and
arrived In the city last night at $40 O'Clock. The
party came through on special car. The Ptesi-
dent and Col Lamont were driven to the White
House, where the former had conference with
day that they had q delightful trip. 1--WE did not
sleep under roof while we were gone. Had drst-
Class Luck catching about one hundred sn; Ine
when a nsh gets on his line he is sure to be
hooked"
CLEAR WEATHER PROBABLE To-MoRRow.-The
Signal ONCE prediction to-day inclines toward
clearing weather tomorrow. The rain Is likely to
continue tonight, but there is q prospect Of q
drop In the temperature next week. Lieut.. Dun
woody Will act as predictions off1cer this month.
THE CASE CT LIEUT.. demonstrating Secretary
Harmony admits that the charges against Lieut..
Houston, to be tried by court-martial at Newport
next Monday, consists in his having obtained and
used copies OF questions In an examination In
advance. He says, however, that 1t is not charged
that Lieutenant Houston stole the questions, but
that they were given to him by another person.
difriculty did not resign Tor that reason but from
entirely different causes.
Treasury Department Changes.
The following named persons have received ap-
pOintments for probationary term OF six months
under civtl-service rules, viz: Miss K. E. Kergan,
OF Connecticut, and Hager Bouck, Of New York,
to the 5000 class In the ONCE Of the Treasurer Of
the United States. H. NJ. Purcell, OF Ohio, having
served a satisfactory probationary term OF six
months, has received an absolute appointment to
the 900 class in the Office OF the Sixth Audi
tor.
lima, from class TO class - i the Office OF the
Secretary; Slas L. LuptOn, OF Virginia, from class
l to class 2 in the ONCE Of the First Auditor;
and Louis Duane, OF Pennsylvania, from $500 to
200 class Sixth Auditors ONCE.
Yellow Fever in Philadelphia.
Surgeon-General Hamilton has just received
dispatch from Philadelphia informing him that a
case OF yellow fever has been discovered there
in the person Of Florida refuge who passed the
inspection at WaycrOSS Ga. The patient was
sent to the Municipal Hospital
Poetry and Proof Reading.
From the Des Moines Register.
Some writer has produced q poem entitled
sounds from the Sanctum." 1t reads Just too
pretty, and gives rise to the thought that the
thor never visited the sanctum when business
was In full blast II he had called about mid
night, forinstance, he would have seen two saints
one porting over a proof-slip, the other holding
the copy; and the sounds would have been some
thing like this:
oof-reader-"As flowers without the sunshine
fare-comma-So-cOmma- you-cOmma-
do breathe q dark and dismal mare"
Observation-Disclosures not mare-air."
ProOf-reader-'T breathe a dark and dismal air
cOmma-as n0wers-cOmma-"
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the comma"
PrOOf-reader-"'r is done. AS flowers without
the sunshine e-semi-cOlOn-confound slug
seven, he never Jus,1fes his lines-NO Joy in life
COMMANDO worms"
Copy hOlder-"Warmth."
Proof-reader-"Nowa warmth share-cOmma-and
health and vigorous flies"
opy-hOlder-"BlaZes! Health and vigor fly"
Observation-Disclosures and vigOr fy-full Stop."
That's about the sound OF 1t when poetry is on
deck.