Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1861-02-19

Touch; 9 cod snaps. coldter"s,'oaaeiaes called
c. - :. tl.ose anong yorr reader.

There may & those among your readers
who are prepared 10 hear Of the hypothesis.
that cold. having been shown to be a distinct
force in nature, iravels-has path, and an
appointed period Of transit across particular
areas. a. other Of the subtle forces. heat, cleo
tricity, magnetism have IN this view. :, cold
snap i simply hurricane OF coid.-the wind
coming along = it were, rs passenger.
The setting upon Us Of intense cold, a.
times. attended WIKI what seems to have been
an altogether Inadequate northerly wind ,hav
ing quite sharply c-f4ed boundaries, Ella
tivrlv to Tie weather before and after, lends
countenance 10 this view. If it be true, the
world owes King Cold more Of recognition
than K IS wont 10 extend. = being one o. the
great powers active over the earth.
The more comr.on belief. doubles Is, that
cold weather comes from tile Introduction of
more northern atmospbcTe-that the wind
from the north brings II The question ouly
arises, what brings the wind Obedience to
gravity brings 1t, say the books. The notion
j., quite general. that wIud Is air in a dluvisl
ton Of the ealtA's surface, 10 re-estaUiIsh
eouiiIbriu ~, as water flow towards its level
Ii this v ere 80. what possibly could cause the
frequent occurrence Lereabouts. through the
winter. Of sou,herly winds ? Why, moreove-,
it may be asked. 90 not northerly winds have
their access gradually, with the increasing
obIquity Of the san rays,in the Fail Why,
as ,hot obliquity increases, uninterrupiediy,
on towards Christmas. do not north winds
pre-an uuinterruptedly the increase Of cold
keep.ng even pace with the dImiuulioa ofthe
length Of the day ? Why should not cold
weather come on gradually and 90 eff gradu
slly Why. fer that matter, should not IL
ever tending toward tile portions Of the earth
successfully heated hy the sun
Why. if the establishment Of equilibrium
is the proving cause. should not equilibrium,
or calm, be the sequal 20 wind always? Yet
how common III this latitude is the phenome-
non OF opposite winds suddenly substituted
for one auoiLer-the instant whipping about,
as We call it, OF wind.
The theory of lhe trade winds, generally ac-
cepted, Is built upon the supposed fact of yrav-
ration toward the equator, complicated with
a certain backwardncss IN point Of rotary ye-
lociry of tie polar atm = phe-es. But the eX-
PLANTATION linps, in .hat there appears TO II
no necessity for the return Of the rar,iied ar
TO the poles. Mounting TO 4 great height il
might well become condensed and srt,, /. down
over the equator,repressi further i.,7,,v.f-,o,
the poles. Ea''....pr.urD beng what the wind
was 2. En- the appears TO be no reason Why
II should Let have got it, and rested in II for
ever. The exceptional winds, moreover. the
Monsoons Of the Indian Ocean. and the Nor
theirs Of the Gu Of Mexico. suggest great
doubts as to this being the true theory
What, # We say, that winds. ms. al Of be-
ing air-rivers, approximate, all, more or less,
nearly to the type of the tori.ado-pursue u
gyrating course-their axes trayersiug pr 4.
determined by some law Of the occult forces
that the equilibrium which it IS their office TO
supply Is somehow allied to the electric -
Under this view souyherly winds, full half
the time through winter. present no paradox
Sudden shifts 10 quarters OF the compass near
" opposite cNp.icable upon tie suppose
tion Of our having OF a sudden passed from the
embrace of limb of one tornado rushing in
one direction, to the embrace of = limb of
another moving in contrary direction. T e
occasiona.ness Of cold speIls,upon this hgpo:h-
osis, becomes the thing we sh. nd look for /:
for tins IS what We have nlways been accus-
toned to observe OF tie occult forces VIII
ness. the Aurora Ba-calis hurricanes c1r.l.-