The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1857-03-26

u Gus tension attraction by lifting papers out Of
the car ten feet b low the balloon and huggng
them to its body Tor moment, and then letting
them lrop OF again; bur as ha no in tr ments
can only relate the manifestations OF electricity
in this case. While, as stated above, distant
view of storns is imposing and granda closer view
of great storm such as this Ohio meteor is truly
sublime although the rushing noise below and in
is midst like the iumult of thousand chariDts OF
war, is almost appalling.
The Quantity AMI Quality Of Thunder seem TO
be in proportion to the magnitude of the storm.
A storm may be so limited in size as that there
will be no electrical explosions In this case the
developed electricity can be dis-ipated and taken
up by the Immediately surrounding cloud forma-
tion. April and May showers are an exemplifca
ton of this fact When the Storm is Of grert
magnitude the central portion of its top becomes
surcharged with electricity, because the surround
ing cloud-formed vapor cannot conduct away 81
lently as fast as it is developed and hence expln-
sions must ens,ie such as noticed in the Ohio me-
teor, with terrific and rapid discharges of thunder,
and moreover, the drops Of rain that are formed
from this surchargcd vapor Of the upper cloud
ais, become redundsntly electrified, and although
they fall quietly down through the intervening
clear air which is conductor, as soon as they
rea h the lower cloud which is negatively electri
fed they give up their surplus--slently il the ca
psci'y of this cloud is insufficient TO take it upbut
explosively il thu cloud is sufficient and it may
fy of laterally until disspaied, or it may glance
downward TO the earth, rendng whatever it en-
counters before its diffusion in the earth The
physical facts here stated are as saw them the
rationale Of explosion is confirmed from the known
play of electricity as divulged by the common
electrical machine experiments.
A Storm Viewed from within its Cauldron--
that is from within its vortex where the coud-va.
por is driving upward to where it spreads outs
rather terrible thing and the very fact that you
caught up in the midst of one of na;ure's Ia
bor'tory furnaces makes you feel resigned an de-
Ter mined TO look TO the end thereof 1t may be
o Ily terrible because we are not uSel to it new
er,heless, would not like to enter one again for
observation until science dictates without II doubt
that we are not liable To humiliation or serious
harm. The one now to be describe is The re su't nf
a trip in the midst of local storm Of so limited
dimensions rs to have no electrical explosions du-
ring my passage Of nineteen minues within its
bosom, This storm origina,a1 n,,rIv over the
town or Cor'ise Pa nm the I7,i of In,e
! l3l3 lentered II inst az i, wa. rorn,p The
nucleus cloud above was just sprcalilg out a,
entere,l the vortex uosu,necti, olv. was hnrI,d
into it ,o onicL ,b,, h. no anna. ,,,tv or vie g.
ing its surrounding, outsil,. ant must thersf,r.
confne this relation to IFS internal action. On en-
,erinp it the motion of the air swuur the balloon
10 and fro, as also around in a circle. and A dis.
nal bowling noise accompanied this UNPLEASANT
y a, sickennp motion and in few n;nu,es there
after was heard the falling of heavy rain below re-
Sc milling in sound a cataract The color of the
c, ul inrernaIlv was ni a milky hue, sonewh I
like dense no lv Of steam in III, omen air np the
cold was so .b,rn that my b,,rI he,ome busbv
with hosr-rroSt. As ther. WAS no electrical exn .
sons in this storm durinr nv incar era.ionit mirht
have been borne co nrortablv enough but for the
sea-.ickness occasional by the .ptatel ars,orm
Sill, could hear and soc AMI even smell every
thing clos, bv and arounJ LITTLE n Its of sn NV
with an icy nu,leus when br ken, wer. patterup
prolusely arounl me in promiscuou, AMI confuse
disorder, and slight blasts of wind seemed ocra
sionaly to pcnetra,e this cloud IateralIy notw;th
standing there was an upmoving column of wind
all the while. This upnovny stream woald carry
the balloon up TO poin, in the npp,r cloud where
its force was expanlel by the ou spreading of its
vapor, whence the balloon would be thrown ou
ward. fall down some dis ance, then be drawn into
the vortex, again to be carried upward o perform
the same revolution until had gone through the
!, cold furnace seven or eight times and all thi.
time the smell of SULPHUR or what is now termed
ozone, was perc.ptibe. and was sweating proruse
: " from some cause unknown to me, unless it wa.
I from undue excitement The last time of desceu,
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