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Show April Weather. The meteorological summary for the month of April, as furnished by Mr. W. McGillivray, sergeant ot the signal service here, shows ai follows fol-lows : Highest barometer, 80.205; lowest, 29 549; mean, 29.817. Highest temperature, 73; lowest, 30; meau, 49.8. Daily mean humidity, 43 per cent. Prevailing direction of the wind, northeast. Greatest velocity ol wind, 31 miles per hour, on the 8th. Total number of miles traveled, 5,057. Total rainfall, 2.63 inches. Number of clear days, It; cloudy, 9; days oq which rain or snow fell, 9. Comparative temperatures for the same month in the years indicated: 1873, 4-1.3; 1874, 4S.2'; 1875, 50.3; 1876, 50.33; 1877, 48.G0. Comparative precipitation : 1873. 0,85 inches; 1874,0 90; 1875,1.50; 1876, 2.09; 1877, 2 14. |