The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-08-10

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Oh for hammock full eighty feet up,
Midst the blue ether some hot summers day
! Oh for seat on the top of Mont Blano
! Oh fora freezer to cool OF the sum
| Oh for a coast on side of hill
Oh to be shot from the mouth of a gum
/ Oh for the clothing Of Adam and Eve,
Simple aud thin as could easily be
If some cool weather would visit our cline,
Who'd be SO thankful and happy as we?
"The Telegraph and the
StOFm.''
But, as the title Of our article
shows, a new element Of science has.
been introduced-the electric tele-
graph-an invention whose mis-
sion Of usefulness is destined to un-'
limited enlargement.
In November, 1854, while the
Anglo French Fleet was operating
in the Black Sea against the stub
born walls of Sebastopol, the tidings
flashed across the wires that a
mighty tempest had arisen on the
western coast of France, and, by the
warnings of the barometer, was on
its way eastward. The telegram
was sent by the French Minister of
War, Marshal Vallient, from Paris,
and reached the allied feet in good
time to enable them to put to sea
before the cyclone could travel the
five hundred leagues Of its course,
and disperse or destroy the most
splendid navies that ever rode those
waters. The storm came with a
fatal punctuality to the predicted
hour. The Crimea, shaken, ravaged,
scOurged by its fury, presented
Everywhere a scene of ruin in the
allied camp more fearful than any
fire of all the Russian forts COM
bined could have inflicted. It is
perhaps not too much to say that,
but for that telegram and its timely
storm warning, the congregated
navies, far from home and shattered
to pieces, could not have sustained
the besieging armies, and the event
of the great Eastern war might
have been different from what it
finally was.
So happily, in this instance, did
theory (too often despised) blend
with fact, that the French Minister
said, sit appears that, by the aid Of
the electric telegraph and barome-
trio observations, we may be APP
prised several hours or several days
of great atmospheric disturbances,
happening at the distances of 1000
or 1900 leagues"
Less than three years after the
occurrence Of the famous ''Black
Sea Storm" just mentioned, there
appeared for the first time, and in
an American paper, a formal prOpo-
sition for the establishment of q gen,
eral system Of daily weather reports
by telegraph, and the utilization o.
that great invention for the cOllec
; ton of meteoric changes at a centra
office, and the transmission Of storm
warnings to the sea ports Of thr
American lakes and our Atlantic
sea board.
"Since great storms," says Mr.. T
B. Butler, in his work on "The At
mospheric System and Elements o
Representation" "have been found
to observe pretty we'll defined laws
both as respects the motions Of tht
winds and the direction of their pro
gress, we may often recognize suct
a storm in its progress, and antici
pate changes which may succeed du
ring the next few hours. When it ii
possible to obtain telegraphic repOrt
of the weather from several places
} in the valley of the Mississippi anc
its tributaries, we may often predio
| the approach Of a great storm p
hours before its violence is felt in N
} York"
On the coasts of the kingdom o
Italy mariners are forewarned tina
a storm threatens them by q red aas
hoisted on all the towers and light
houses of the principal localities
ranging from Genoa to Palermo, anC
thence up along the Adriatic. Oh
the most dangerous points of tn,
coast of England, where the fishing
. boats and small craft that perform
. the service Of the coast are exposed
$ to formidable gales even during tn
: most promising season, barometer
put up by the Meteorological bureau
are at hand to warn the seamen 0
bad weather.-[From "ThO TeIo
q graph and the Storm" by Prof. 7
B. Maury, in Harper's Magazine 70
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