Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-11-24
[Cor. of the Scientific American.
Velocity Of Wind.

cor. OF the Sclentlhc American.
Velocity Of Wind
Under the head of varieties of speed :" in
your paper Of Oct. 18th, you say clouds in a
violent hurricane move from 80 to 100 miles
per hour You agree with what is stated in
standard books, indeed, in nearly all writings
on the subject Of storm cloud velocities, but it
is. nevertheless, an error. Neither hurricanes.
tornadoes, nor common thunder-storms travel
as fast as the wind current above them have
sailed above them frequently. and always found
the velocity of the wind greater than the storm
beneath. The surest mode for an aeronaut to
avert the roughness of thunder storm or h1r-
ricane, is to rise above it; if he is far enough
away from its center to avoid its centripetal
force, then he will out-travel it; and as he
goes higher so will he increase his speed over
the storm cloud beneath. | have moved at the
rate of mile in AZ seconds in stormless and
cloudless atmosphere. In the midst of tor
nado, having gone into it at its formation, the
balloon was involved for 10 minutes, and land
ed but II miles from where the storm was en-
countered. In this storm it showed, hailed
blowed, and rained and whrled my vessel
about to aud fro, making me sick, and making
me vomit more than rough sea ever did
Hurricanes are moved along by the natural
wind currents; and as they cause friction, they
move slower than the wind that carries them
along.
I will not attempt, in this article, to give my
views on the nature Of this friction, as | wish
only to give my experience in regard to a COM
mon error that exists concerning the velocities
of meteors of the cloud kind that should be
corrected, when positive facts prove the error
Out of nine voyages in the air above storms.
sailed each time faster than the storm below.
In two cases out of the nine | gained time
enough to descend before the storm overlook
me; one in distance of 40 miles, the other in
a distance of Is miles.
When the storm first forms, it moves much
slower than the air current above it. After it
is completely formed it moves comparatively
faster. A storm when viewed from above and
to the side of it, has completeness of form
that is hardly conjectured by those who never
saw one thus. Hurricanes have no horizontal
momentum per Sc, therefore they have no other
horizontal velocity than what they derive from
the trade-wind currents, and these are from the
north west and southwest in our latitude.
LANCASTER, Oct, 1855. JOHN WISE
CowHIDING EXTRAoRD1NARY.-The latest cow
hiding affair came of in the Fourth District on
Saturday, and these are the particulars of it:
At ball at Jackson Hall, q few weeks ago,
a nice young gentleman was present with his
sweetheart from Jefferson City. All went well
until, in an unlucky moment the young gentle
man became smtten with the charms of new
beauty with whom he dansed, and who effectu-
ally effaced from his tickle heart all thought of
his legitimate fame. To be brief he. forgot all
about his old love-laid violent siege to the new
her to let him gallant her to her
home-and left his old love to get home as best
she might, on her own responsibility, of which
the new love knew nothing.
After the ball, the young gentleman contin-
ued his suit; and in due time his divinity found
out how he had served the other young lady at
the ball. She never said anything about it,
but thought good deal, and on Saturday her
thoughts matured. The young gentleman call
ing upon her, as usual-all love, devotion, and
vanity. in the supposed success of his suit-she
asked him. smilingly, if he would do her ia
vor. Anything that o human can do, will
do with pleasure" was the fervent response.
s'Well, wish you would go and buy me cow
hide Certainly" said the lover, and off he
started, in the sweet belief that she intended
some other sutton in summary man
ner, all on his account, for he knew her for a
spirited girl He soon returned with the tick
ling machine, and, handing it to her, asked if
that would do. ':Yes, think it WILL" she said
and with that, dropping the guise of the dove
for that of the lioness, she went at him. and
gave him regular built A No, l cowhiding.
The poor fellow was so thunderstruck that he
didn't know what to do, and so. after passively
submitting to the tioggng, beat retreat, and
the remark that ss it was mere nothing-did'nt
hurt much
The young lady is, or has been school teach
er, and seems to understand teaching propriety
Of department to young men as well as children.
She was one Of party that got upset in sail
boat on the lake last summer, and came near
drowning. She was the spunkiest one of the
crowd, however, and subsequently dismissed the
beau she had on that occasion, because he beg
ged the rescuers who came to their assistance
to take him out Of the water before the ladies
had been attended to.-Crescent Of Tuesday.
CALIFORNIA STATE FAIR.-The Californians
are great people. They do not seem to be
content with possessing greater amount of
golden prospects than any other State, but
must also strive to excel all others in agricul-
tural products. They held State Fair in the
Assembly Chamber at the Capitol, Sacramento,
in September last, and the accounts given in
The Sacramento Union of the products there
displayed, make our teeth water for some of
their delicious eatables. There were the finest
grapes, in every variety; oranges six inches in
diameter, and Newtown pippins five inches in
diameter. Onions twenty inches in circum-
ference, parsnips two feet long, tomatoes twelve
inches round; beets weighing each twenty
pounds, potatoes FIVE pounds each, and pump
zins four feet in circumference. There are
some of their triumphs in agriculture, which
ne look upon as the chief of the fine arts, not
excepting gold digging
Scientific american.
A NOBLE Commemorative Norfolk He
aid, Of the LIST inst, has the following para
,raph:
The hearty generosity of the sons of the