Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-30
SLIGHTLY COOLER TO-DAY
The Thermometer Did Not Run Quite 50
High.
Still 1t Was UncomfOrtably Warm
of Weather.

While the general temperature was not
as aspiring today as 1t was yesterday, and
a strong breeze tempered the air to a con-
siderable degree the wilted shirt collars
Of man and the moist places on. the shirt
waist of lovely woman, in the neighbour
hood of her shoulder blades, showed that
the humidity was getting it's licks in with
great vigor. Humidity is that damp con-
dition Of the atmosphere that makes the
perspiration run out of a persons pores
like the hot room of a Turkish bath, and
drives the weaker sex to dlaphanous drap-
cry. palm leaf fans and couches, and the
stronger sex to rum punches and similar
desperate resources. There was lots of 1t
around today. and IL a census OF pocket
handk erchiefs had been taken at o'clock
dry one wouldn't have been discovered
in the District.
Up at the weather bureau there was a
tendency on the part of the officials to call
In the early edition of dog days and give
the national capital a more bearabie va
riety OF temperature. The reporting Of the
tariff bill 10 the Senate may have had
something to do with this change of base
on the part of Prof. Harrington and his
associates. but this idea could not be sub
Stimulated because the weather wise men
were as dumb as oysters about Ii. All they
would say was that there would be, prob
fair weather, while the indications were
that cooler weather would follow.
The Hot Spell.
This afternoon Prof. Harrington issued
bulletin on the subject of the extreme hot
weather.
The period of extremely hot weather
that has prevailed over nearly the whole of
the United States during the past ten days
to two weeks said the report. "has been
accompanied at a rumber of stations by
maximum temperatures equal to or in ex-
Of NH iah fh.a HAv M
has record for the same season OF the year
The stations where the record has been
thus eQualed are Memphis. Knoxville, To-
ledo and Des Moines, and those where II has
been exceeded are Philadelphia. Baltimore.
Lynchburg. Pensacola, Little Rock, San
Antonio. Chattanooga, Parkersburg, Roch-
ester, Erie. Saulte de Ste. Marie, Wichita
and Concordia, Kan. and Tucson, Arizona
"On Friday. the 18th. maximum tempera-
lures OF 100 degrees occurred at Montgom-
cry. Little Rock and Wichita. Kan, and
1O4 degrees at Tucson and Yuma, Ariz
Temperatures of 90 degrees and over oc-
CURED at sixty-one stations east of the
Rocky mountains. or about 65 per cent Of
the whole number.
AT EastDort. Portland and Boston the
maximum temperatures were SO, IS and 81
degrees. respectively, and at Nantucket
Block Island and Atlantic City "a 10 and
"a degrees. respectively, these low tempera-
lures being due to the southeast winds pre-
vaillns at these stations. At Washington
during June the maximum temperate re
has been at 80 degrees or above on fifteen
days. and 90 degrees or above on ten days
The highest temperature was 975 degrees
on the oath. The highest recorded during
the summer of 1899 was 972, on July vi
Although the latter part of the month has
been extremely warm, the mean tempera-
ture for the whole month will be only about
degrees above the average. the first ten
days having been considerably cooler tfAn
usual. One OF the coolest days on record
Tor this season of the year with A mini
mum temperature of 463 degrees occurred
on the 9Th. In connection with the high
temperature. the month at Washington
has also been an unusually dry one only
about an inch and a quarter Of rain having
fallen. or one-fourth of the usual amount
for June" ~ .'7JsI4I+
Three O'Clock Closing. A
Owing to the hot weather the Treasury,
State. War and Navy Department. and the
Interior Department closed at O'Clock
today. 1t is understood that they VIII close
at o'clock during the summer. L.