The morning times., 1896-07-16

| Prof Hazen and his efficient corps Of
assistants of Uncle Sans renowned de-
partmental weather sore, have arranged
for special drive in cooler weather bar
gains for The next twenty four hours or
| longer. The more agreeable article will
probably be on tap by the hour The Times
readers are up this morning, and at the
| very latest it is promised for this after
noon by o'clock.
| There has been Il drop in the temperature
| of 80 degrees at Chicago" said Prof.
! Hazen last evening, land we may rest
| assured that the present hot spell has
| been broken up. A fail of 8 degrees may
| be expected here by tomorrow morning or
the middle or the afternoon at the latest.
| The weather has been very hot, as every
one knows. The spell began last Sunday
| and las been caused by the settlement of
| high pressure area over the Gulf OF Mexico.
| The South winds have BONE tine highly
charged atmosphere to the North.
| They are goDe.now, and it Will become
| cooler. The area of high pressure has
| raised IN the Northwest, and 1t will carry
| the reduced temperature down East with
| it. 1t is now 8 o'clock and the tber-
| mometer at Pittsburg registers 6S de-
grees."
The weather that has just been dispensed
to the swelteriDg public OF tie District of
Columbia is considered by the officials
| of the departmental store referred to, as
literally one OF the hottest articles they
have had in stock at this season OF the
year for almost decade. The supply, il
not the demand, has been general. 1t has
been as warm up in the Dakotas as it has
down in Flonta. A cessation was ex-
perieDced in the supply for New York and
the New England States yesterday, and the
mercury contracted itself there into rea-
soDable compass, but everywhere else east
of the Rockies it mounted toward the top
of the tube like sky rocket on the night
of the Fourth.
Sun there was more than enough warm
weather to go around and a goodly por-
tion Of it was dropped down to the COM
placent Californians who have naught to
fear but the slcer craze. At Red Bluff
the mercury mounted to an even 100 de-
Grees and was kept down onl V by the timely
intervention OF shower in the center
OF the day.
The maximum temperature in Washing
ton was 80 degrees. The same rating
was noticed in st. Louis, Wilmington, Gin
cnnati and Key West. At the latter point
the mercury never fingers about that mark
more than once year, it is said.
Down at Norfolk the mercury mounted to
"a and it struck a similar mark in
Savannah. Back in Little Rock and Kan
sas City it went two degrees better and
stopped at 90 degrees. Reports come from
everywhere that the spell was one of the
hottest for the season of the year that has
ever been experienced.
Showers have been frequently attendant
on the high temperature. In only two
places has tie rain been unusually heavy
in the last uwenty-four hours, however.
In Cincinnati there was .3S inches OF
rainfall. In Cheyenne, Wyo., the rainfall
approached the dignity or a small water
spout and in the space OF a few hours it
would have covered the ground to a depth
OF three inches had it remained as 1t fell.
This is a remarkable rainfall for that To-
caIity where so much water seldom falls
in SIX months.
But the weather is to be cooler. 1t
will hardly be necessary to unpack ones
sealskins but on the other hand one will
not have to change ones collar fourteen
times day and the laundry men will not
have to run night and day forces. The
hinges on the Ice chest will be given achance
to cool and one Will not be bored by every
Acquaintance telling him with exasperating
GOODNESS that the weather is hot.