The Hottest For Years

The beat during the first se ven teen days of the present month has exceeded that oí former years by a Urge majority. The man vrho can teil you when the heaviest fall of Bnow occurred, or when we experienced the longest drought, fails to recall the time when he has suffered more from the heat than h has duriug the past i'ew days. Daring the last three days of last week the mercury fluttered around the onehundreth degree with remarkable ease. The following statement shows the highe-t and loweatdegrees the temperature reached each day, for the first seventeen days of the month, as taken at the observatory : Day Highest Lowest Dy Hlghest Lowest Degree Degree Degree Degree 1 90. 17.6 10 _. 8Í.3 60. 2 80. 67. 11 89. 59. 3 91.4 67. 12 „ 90.2 63. 4 82.4 68. 18 90.8 63. 5 84.5 68. 14 87.9 62.7 6 87. 68.8 15 95.9 65. 7 _ 89.5 62.8 16... 95.7 77.5 8 92. 68. 17 98. 80, 6 85.2 6SU Prof. J. M. Schaeberle, to whomwe are indebted for the statements here produced, says that the temperature in the business portion of the city was no doubt a few degrees higher than tb ai, taken at the o serratory. The following table shows the maximum temperature for the months of June, July and August, from 1881 to 1886, inclusive, there having been no record kept prior to 1881: Year June July August 1881 , 85.2 92. 96. 1882 86. 87.2 83. 1883 85. 88. 85. 1884 88. 85S 88. 1885 91. 86. 1886 91.2 96. 90