The weather during the past week has been literally unpre-
cedented. Never before has the end of September been marked by midsummer weather. Tuesday was in London one of the hottest days of the year, and though a little rain fell during a thunderstorm about 11 or 12 o'clock in the evening, Wednes- day was not perceptibly cooler. Indeed, on that day the heat, though somewhat less by thermometer, seems to have been more felt, and several cases of sunstroke are reported. On Tuesday in the sun a heat of 130° was registered, and in the shade the reading was 86° ; whereas on Wednesday the shade temperature was only 83°. Probably the cause of the misery and prostration caused by the heat on Wednesday was the moisture in the air, the result of the shower of the night before. Damp heat exhausts far more than dry. Thursday and Friday, though hot, were a little cooler, but the Meteoro- logical authorities refuse to prophesy more seasonable weather until a great thunderstorm has passed away.
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