The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-09-14
GOLD PROBS" NOWHERE.
4 WEATHER wISEACRE AND HIS
THEORIES
Effects of Railroad Bar, and TeIc-
graph " ires on the Atmosphere
I've Recent Ecayy Rains Accounted
fora Str.nGe Prediction And Its
Results.


And now comes Professor Wagner to
So. at rest for ali time to come the agita-
ted feelings Of the voturicS of science.
Old Probs, j. doomed by the Professor :
discovery to utter oblivion; that Is, Just
a, soon ~ the new machine gets in run
ming order. The truth Is that the pro-
lessor, after many. many years OF dlIigent
research among the achives of nature
has recently come to the conclusion that
the much talked OF art Of predicting the
weather Is. aud always has been decided
~ overrutcd, and as IA consequence OF his
highly refined investigations he docsn I
hesitate 10 declare the signal office at
Washington To be decidedly unnecesSa.
~ institution, especially so when every
man, woman and child in the universe
have it within their power 10 become sig
nal officer, themselves. All this a Tl',es
reporter regarded ~ rather eXtraOrdlna-
~. and determined that visit to the
professor neat little institute and nm in
lrrvicw with the professor himself should
solve the conuudrum which has for 50
long time disturbed the equilibrium of
the community. The Wagner Institute
Is located on Seventeenth street, near
Columbia avenue. In Che midst Of his
nnnlmutc subjects, with a shade OF in
tense carncs,ucss upon his face that made
hiIL appear like a studlouS a.chcmist, the
professor was discovered to be sitting.
lie received the reporter politely, and
seemed quite ANXIOUS To- communicate
through him to the public the sist OF his
important discovery. Last winter,
sand he, removing his spcctacIes and Tend
ing his great blue ewes upon the reporter,
~ was asked incidentally by some one
what my opinion of the character OF the
approaching winter was. The person
who asked me little knew that my AN
swcr would be the result of a l'fc study,
and that he was the first 10 whom that
result would be- made known. | began
to telling him that the winter would not
set in before the 10Th Of January, and
that then would come u long and unin-
terruptcd season Of exceeding severity.
NV prediction was true 10 the minute,
for, if YOU recall the first cold came late
On the night Of January II, and contiru-
cd without interruption, n | had stated.
| further said that We would have no
spring-vou remember, of course, that
We had nonc-and | also told him we
would keep by the fire till the lst of June.
This was likewise proven to be u true pro-
rhccv. Somehow or other the Weather
department at Washington got hold OF
ii, and appointed delegation TO wait on
me for the purpose of aScertalning by
what means saw il the fur distance the
state of the weather. / didn't feel like
making full development of the plan
by which ! drew my conclusions until |
had An opportunity for further testing 1t,
that might become convinced, IN my
own mind. of its thorough verihcatIou,
and, of course, this would ncccssltate the
experience of another season. The COM
mittce were very much astonished,
indeed at what declared to te
nv firm belief. and left, promising to
keep sharp watch upon my movements
They were anxious to grasp at any nm
provement upon the system to which
thew were bound, as the only means for
information now in their possession for
determining the probable condition OF
the weather in the future were furnished
bv the telegraph. They can never get
nearer than So per cent. while this sys.
tenn is recognized Now, professor viii
Won be good enough to tell the public
from what you draw Your conclusions