A Snug Season's Coinage

The San Francisco Mint has been temporarily closed for the anual settlenient, which will be broughtup to the .'iOth o) June. During the year a very large coinage has been produced, as follows: OOLD. Doublé eagles .... $21,900,000 Eagles 120,000 Half eagles 15.3,000 Quarter eagles - .... 67,500 Total $22,302,500 SILVE1Ï. Trade dollars $2,121,000 Half dollars 241,000 Quarter dollars - - ' - - - 129,000 Dimes 59,500 Total L2,550,500 The weight of tho gold was 74 tons, and of the sil ver 140 tons. Of the coins turned out there were 1,098,000 $20 pieces, 12.000 eagles, 31,000 half-eagles, and 27,000 quarter-eagles. ín silver, 2, 1 2 1 ,000 trado dollars were turned out, 482,000 half-dollars, 516,000 quarter-dollars, and 595,000 dimes. ' The total number of pieces coined was 4,882,000. We are told that our trado dollars, of wbicb. 2,121,000 were coined, are rapidly supplantiug the Mexican dollar in China, and as they are constantly increasing in favor there the demand must continuo to increase. There is no doubt but the gieatest work of the mint for sorae timo to come will be to supply this demand, and tho manufacture of the ordinary gold and silver coins iu this country will bo iu a gruat mcivsure but incidental to mint operations. We are glad Congress got over without any bloodshed. Hawley called Hale, of Maine, dishonorablo ; Butler called Tremaine a jackal ; Tromaine said he would whip him if he (Tremaine) were younger ; Foster insisted that Butler was a cock-eye ; Spencer and Gordon indulged in roundabout counter-charges of cowardice ; Parker charged Garfield with persistent demagoguery; Logan said the whole House of Kepresentatives were cowards; and even the bland Blaine lost his usual complacency and spoke with his mouth sharply. The warm weather did it, though, iiow that vacation has come, peaco will be restored. All will remark with the spirit of Mr. Garfield to Mr. Parker : " My friend froin Missouri cnnot make himself my onemy by anything he is likely to say. - Ciacirinati Time." A new air machine was lately put into oporation in the British House of Commons. By means of this apparatus a constant supply of air, cooled to any required degree, even in the warmest weather, can be supplied at the rate of trom 60,000 to 90,000 gallons per minute. The house contains about 900,000 gallons of air, so that when the apparatus is working at its maximum, it is possible to renew the air without sensible draught every ten minutes.