the present daily increase in temperature prevails, the highest temperature recorded' this year, 97.7 degrees on July 23, will be broken in the course of the next few days, A rise of over halt a degree was' reistered by Sizcawel Observatory August 10 in the maximum tempera lure recorded, which was 97 degrees fas against 9044 degrees the previous day. The lowest temperature record~ ced mat day was 78.8 degrees, which corresponds exactly with that of the previous day.
Shanghai residents are wiping their brows and wondering what they will have to put up with In the course of the next few days, 'The night of Aug. 9 was made particularly unpleasant by the excess: sive humidity, combined with the high temperature, and sleep was rendered dimeuit by' the uncomfortable conditions, The humidity at 4 am, on August 10 was 90, decreasing to 84 Dam,
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