Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-08-02
How to be WeathcrWise.

John Fl. Tice, the weather prophet of st. Louis.
gives the following directions to those who
aspire to be weatherwiSe:
AS every body Is interested In the weather so
each one should qualify himself or herself to
read the sky, and TO interpret the meaning OF
the winds, sky and clouds
An intensely blue and serene sky indicates
heayy rains and severe storms in from twelve
TO forty-e1ght hours. A gray, haZy sky indl-
Gates continuous dry and generally hot weather.
A southeast wind indicates the existence Of a
low barometer, IL not storm center in the
northwest. The aspect of the sky and clouds
VIII tell whether 1t means mischief or not. An
almost immediate cessation OF rain may be eX-
pected as soon as the northwest wind sets In.
1t matters not what the aspects OF the sky are
Wht n the west wind sets In; fair weather Will
enSue II, and continue from three to four days.
The passage OF storm center from the guilt and
southeaStward Of our locality is partial ex-
ception only SO far that 1t clears Off more
tardily.
There really are but two primary kinds of
clouds, namely, ~ those that float at great
height above the earth's surface, and {2) those
that float low. Those that float high, say from
six to nine miles, are OF a fibrOus and gallzy
structure; they are hence called cirrus that is
hair or tuft clouds. The clouds that form In the
lower strata OF the atmosphere, say from one to
tnfee miles ABOVE the earth. are irregular in
structure. and OF a more or less nodular form.
They are called the cumulus that is, the heap or
pile cloud.
and 1ndiStinctly defined against the sky, no
rain need be expected. Under the low baro-
meter, however, they develop by accretion, be-
come smooth and compact In structure and
much enlarged In volume. They now sink
lower and become sharply defined against the
plue sky. Rain may now be expected, espe-
claliy II they unite with the cumulus, forming
The n1mDuS or rainclOud. If the GURUS, In.
stead OF forming the nimbus, reascends it di:-
SipateS, and no rain need be expected until IL
lowers again, Which generally is in twenty -four
hours
AN OLD AND TERRIBLE CRIME REvIvEp-T,o
A
man, who are supposed to be John Bender and
his wife Kate, the notorious Kansas mur(lerers
whom the police OF the country have been
nuHt!ng 1Or over seven years, are now lodged
In jail at Fremont, Dodge county, Neb They
were arrested In Colfax county, near Schuyler.
coming East. The man said his name was
McGreger, out admitted that at one time he
stayed With the Benders, and saw them put
two children in hole In the garden. The Wo-
man Claimed that the man was her husband,
and that both of them witnessed some OF the
murders committed in Kansas. subsequently
the prisoners were visited by Mr.. Hoofand
VINO, for Two years prior to July, 1873, was a
were fully identified by him. The woman ad-
mitted that the man was John Bender but said
1bat she was not his wife. Young Kate and
another road. The party were to have met In
Iowa, and then some one was to go to Kansas
and;dig 0buriedlon old,,Bender's premises.
consisted OF two men and two women, who oc-
cupied e-stOry cabin on the open prairie In
LaDette county, Kansas, which was kept as
kind of wayside tavern for the accommodation
0ftravellers. Shortly after they occupied the
house remarkable disappearances.of travellers
began to be noted. In February, 1873, an old
man and his granddaughter left Cherryvale,
near where the Benders lived, In wagon to 60
to Fort Scott, but never reached that place, In
Malcn Dr. VIM. Il. York saw their wagons at
Fort scout, and started to ferret out the mys-
terry. He too disappeared and search for him
resulted In the discovery of the bodies of the
old man and Child In ravine with their
Threats cut. The house OF the Bendars was
OFTEN 9d1 yisitsd by the searchers, and in April,
1913, the whole family disappeared. The horse
was searched and trap door discovered. undar-
meath meath which was a we'll the floor and walls
York was found buried In the garden, with a
WOUND In the back of the head, and in a short
Time nine more graves were discovered, eight of
them containing single bodies of men and one
OF them an OLD man and little girl Since that
time every effort has been made to capture the
murderers, but without success until now.
ES Isaac j. Jenkins formerly collector of the
port or Wilmington, Del. died at Asbury Park,
y. j., On Friday.
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