Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-12-19

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ed with paper and kept resoTviii:..s. 6.
with clock work. The paper c.
yer this drum is divided by lines
with spaces representing hours
and fractions thereof. The pen
Gil follows a straight line until Tie
magnet is released, when the lead
point makes mark to the left,
and Immediately flies back again.
The spaces between these
marks indicate, Of course, the ve-
locity Of the wind per hour. The
large stations are supplied with
presses and type, and early in
: the morning (three or four o.
clock) bulletins are printed and
! mailed to postmasters in the Vi
cinity. These are called Farm
er's Bulletins" and are posted
where they can be readily exam
ined. The New York Office
sends out over seven hundred Of
these each morning. The appa-
rently difficult problem of deter
mining a storm centre, and the
direction in which the storm is
travelling, readily solves itself
when a few points are UNDER
stood.
As reports are received at the
Washington office, red lines are
drawn upon a chart connecting
places having the same atmos-
pheric depression. High pres
sure always moves toward low
pressure. The storm centre is
at the locality where the pressure,
as indicated by the barometer, is
at its lowest point. The wind is
created by the denser air sur
rounding the centre. rushing in
to fill the space, the wind becom-
ing weaker as the distance back
from the storm increases. The
signal stations having been in
formed by telegraph of this cen
tre, the approach Of wind is fore
told, and by knowing the tenn
perature, the amounts of moist
ure and cloudiness at the differ
ent localities, the state Of wealth
er accompanying this wind can
be readily aseertained. Several
storm centres often occur at the
same time in different sections of
the country, and there's the
what's-his-name to pay. Sea-
faring folks consider winds as
storms, whether accompanied by
rain or not. The single weak
point is the absence Of means Of
recording the state of weather
on the Atlantic.
But even this fault might be
remedied, and indeed a plan has,
| believe, already been proposed,
by which a vessel kept in mid
ocean could tap the Atlantic ca
bic and forewarn both England
and America of approaching dis
tnrhances. That something Of
the kind will eventually be per-
fected there can no doubt, and
when this is done it cannot be
very long before the whole SUBJ
ject Of weather knowledge will
be reduced to an exact science.
Ipresume your readers have by
this time heard rumors at least
of the great sugar controversy
which has been set on foot here
and in Washington, through the
persistent attacks upon the New
York sugar refners, which for
months past has been through
various other channels ostensibly
by some American importing
houses, but really by an associa-
ton Of Cuban sugar planters
and dealers, who are working
from "behind the scenes" The
charges are made against the ref
ners that they adulterate their
sugar and defraud the govern
nent. Both of these charges
ire utterly baseless, and as to the
former, its absurdity is so evi-
lent that it hardly seems possi-
Die that it should gain credence
anywhere; and yet i learn from
he largest wholesale grocery
houses in the city that the story
If adulteration has in some sec
ions scared their customers into
to buy American refir-
ID sugars. Truth, they say, lies
it the bottom of well; but in
his case it is bound to come to