The above table is in local Panama time and is computed for Lati

The New York Restaurant.

Only Short Order House on the Canal Zone.

Oysters and Fish, a Specialty.

Ice Cream and Candies.

LOCATED NEAR THE PANAMA RAILROAD DEPOT AND CONVEN IENT TO THE TRAVELING PUBLIC.

Quick Service,

Reasonable Prices.

GANDOLFO & RAFFO, Proprietors.

EMPIRE,

CANAL ZONE.

tude 8 deg., 57 min., and 16 sec. north; longitude 79 deg., 31 min., and 4 sec. west.

Colon is in Latitude 9 deg., 22 min., 16 sec. north; longitude 79 deg., 52 min., and 27 sec. west, the difference between local Colon time and local Panama time being about two minutes. By deducting therefore two minutes from the figures on the above table will give the correct sunrise and sunset time at Colon.

PANAMA'S MORALS IN THE '70S

Things are looking up in morals. We have good authority for stating that a mule was baptized the other day, and now the pleasing intelligence comes from Aspinwall that a five-foot alligator went to church in that quiet and respectable town last Sunday. The donkey had the precedence in the entry into Jerusalem, but his morals were not stated, and for the above ceremony they concluded they would have a good mule, no common donkey, but an orthodox mule or none, so they baptized the candidate and branded him with the sign of the holy cross.Panama Star & Herald in 1872.

MUNI

(837)

(37)

(85) (837) (37) (87)

STATIONS:

COLON:

RAINFALL

AT COLON, GORGONA, CULEBRA, & PANAMA.
JAN'Y FEBY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE

AUG.

SFP. OCT. NOV. (36) (36) (37) (36)

JULY

DEC.

(36)

(36)

Mean.

3.99

1.39

1.52 4.31

Max.

19 20

6.49

9.17

12.17 21.73 23.00

13 18

16 49

15.08 12.45 13.84 21.13

12.08

22.00

27.68

25.43 22.99

30.32 43.01

30.94

(Year)

1902

1899

1886

1895 1891

1872

1899

1883 1890

1872 1862

1893

Min.

0.63

0.04 0.02

0.43

1.63

6.41

9.07

5.78

5.35

583

7.05

0.94

(Year)

1889

1897 1865

1899

1871

1899 1905

1902

1867

1897 1884

1873

(5) (6) (5) (5)
0.88 266
13.03
8.24 11.56
3.45 13.87 11.90
3.78 2.01 3.31 3.15 25.12 13.54 19.72 19.88 15.98 18.42
1899 1899 1899 95-1900 1897 1897 1900 1.98 1897 1894
1.21 0.08 0.00 1.38 5.01 4.00 5.16 8.98 11.25 7.72 7.16 3.94
1897 1897 1897-8 1898 1898 1895 1896 1896 1900 1838 1807
(18) (18) (18) (17) (17) (18) (18)
383 11.40 9.00 9.03 10.84 10.80 71.05
16.70 32.20 14.90 20.23
1896 1897 1907 1903
0.04 6.29 3.95

1895

1907 1881 1903

1906

1888

1899

1900

PANAMA:

(11) (10)

(10)

(10)

(10)

Mean.

1.51 0.63 0.99

2.36

8.62

(10) (10, (0) (10) (10)

9.00 8.52 6.91 7.91

(9) (10)

11.03

11.42

3.09

Max.

5.61

2.52

5.71

555

11.22 13.78

15.-2

11.46 15.06

20 27

19.21 5.52

(Year)

1899

1879

1879

1879

1900 1881

1900 1880 1901

1900

1873 1906

1900 182 18.99 1907 18-0 1905 1900-1

4.31 4.05 4.05 1882

1882

4.35 6.45 0.98 1906 1880 1879

NOTE: Ncs. in parentheses denote years of observation. 188 1.87, 1900, 1902, 1903, 1904.

CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA, CANAL ZONE, 1906.

Pilot and Guide.

JAN.

FEB.

MAR.

APR. MAY

JUNE

JULY

AUG.

SEP.

OCT.

NOV. DEC.

MEAN

Pressure

29.86

29.90

29.89

29.86

29.84

29.85

29.83

29.84

29.84

29.83

29.83

29.88

29.86

Maximum Temperature

95

97

96

94

93

89

92

91

92

92

96

90

91.5

Minimum Temperature

71

60

71

72

70

71

71

73

71

70

70

70.6

Mean Temperature

81.4

81.4

81.6

82.2

81.8

79.9

79.8

80.2

81.4

80.0

79.8

79.1

80.7

Relative Humidity

90

90

88

86

89

Dew Point

73

76

87

91

74

75

74

73

74

Wind--Direction

N.

N. W. N. W. N. W.

N. W.

N. W.

N. W.

N. W.

N. W.

N. W.

N. W.

N. W.

N. W.

Wind--Velocity

12

Sunshine--Per Cent

61

67

61

47

49

42

38

41

38

51

32

54

43

Cloudiness--Per Cent

59

82

78

13

86

73

73

While the temperature of Panama is necessarily
high and enervating during the day, the nights are
comparatively cool and refreshing. The uniformity
of temperature prevailing throughout the Isthmus is
strikingly illustrated in the record of fifty-six cities
and towns situated in widely-scattered parts of the
country, some on the Caribbean coast, some on the
Pacific coast, and others in the hills in the interior.
The coolest town shows a mean temperature of 77

deg. Fahr.; the warmest 81.6 deg. Fahr., the average
for the entire Humber being 79.5 deg. Fahr. The
extreme range of temperature nowhere exceeds 35
Fahr
degrees; the thermometer rarely falls below 68 deg.
or rises above 95 deg. Fahr., though in Colon
104 deg. Fahr, was registered on one occasion. The
humidity is excessive reaching as high as
90 per
cent. in the mornings during the rainy season, and

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WATCHES REPAIRED.

The following selection from "Panama Patchwork" is reprinted with the kind permission accorded the publisher, by the author prior to his death At the time the piece was written, the name "Chagres" was hardly one to conjure with. It was associated with deadly fevers, and all manner of things evil. Nowadays the name has lost some of its potency and mysticism, although at the present time, the territory of the upper Chagres is a region practically unknown, and strange as it may seem even the true source of the river, destined to be the great feeder of the canal, is as yet undetermined. The so called "Chagres fever" is nothing more than an aggravated type of malaria.

1. Beyond the Chagres River
Are paths that lead to death...
To the fever's deadly breezes,
To malaria's poisonous breath!
Beyond the tropic foliage,
Where the alligator waits.

Are the mansions of the Devil---
His original estates!

3. Beyond the Chagres River
Lurks the cougar in his lair,
And ten hundred thousand dangers
Hide in the noxious air,
Behind the trembling leaflets,
Beneath the fallen reeds,
Are ever-present perils

Of a million different breeds!