The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-08

Professor Tice of St. Louis, gave in his
"Weather Representations" among other
things description of the Phenomenon Of
the great storms or cyclones, that some
times visit the Western States and Terrific
siss, and denominates their motion as
planetary Force" Wind is air in mo.
tion. And that which causes motion is
called a Force. The velocity is the rapid
ity with which q body moves, and it is al
wsys proportional TO the force by which
the body is put in motion. Wind, there
fore must be body, otherwise could not
b put in motion, and when in rapid mo-
ton its destructive effects are among the
sad experience o: the border state settlers.
When one of these tornadoes was pass
ing over portion of the city of St. Louis,
it was observed and its velocity computed
as follows: It arrived in the next town
ten miles east, in one hour and ten min
utes, while its rotating or whirling motion
was fifty five miles in one hour. amounting
together nearly sixty five miles. There il
not any thing remarkable in the velocity
of this STERN.
The velocity of moving body is deter
mined by the time that it occuI les in pass
ing through given space. Hence, the
greater the space and shorter the time, the
greater is the velocity. Now there are ma
ny bodies that move through space, and
several that may be named that have much
greater velocity than the storm before de-
scribed as touching the Professors own ma
tive city, and perhaps observed by him.
First. Objects or bodies in motion which
60 forward such as fastest race horse or
fastest train, each have beeu known to
keep pace with the aforesaid tornado. A
common muskst ball $50 miles per hour,
q rife ball 1000 miles per hour. a "a pound
cannon ball 1900 miles per hour. These
are human agencies, while the natural
agsuts of light and electricity respectively
1872 900 and 1884, 900 miles in second Of
time, and finally, as we know the most
about the motion of the earth, q compari
son of it and the aforesaid storm is reason.
able, because if the storm has a planetary
force, we know the earth has a planetary
force, because il is driven By the two GEN.
sral forces called Centripetal and Centrifu
| gal, which drive the earth through space
at the pate of $1,000 per hour, or 1889
miles in each minute. or the motion of the
motion of the earth 1046 times as rapid az
the storm. Hence we conclude that these
tsrnsdoes are not driven BY q planetary
force, as there are no common or fixed cen
of motion in them, and therefore, the cen
tripetal and centrifugal forces cannot OK
list in these cyclones, and very little mor'
Of attraction than the ordinary weight o
the atmosphere. We believe that sucl
wind currents are are very common in tn
upper regions of the atmosphere occasion
ally dipping down to the earth, being NOR
destructive in the Torrid Zone because
the heat near the equator rariies the at
mosphere, that these upper currents NOR
readily strike the earth. And the reasol
that storms are common in the North Mis-
sissippi States, il the broad expanse of lev
} sl land with but little timber, while in 9th
sr portions of our country, timber, hills
and mountains are the protection. SEGo