Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1882-03-04
Sourn CLEVELAND, EIGHTEENTH WARD }
CUYAuoGA COUNTY, o., :


SQUTl OLEN ELAND, EliH tENlh w AM
CUYAuoGA COUNTY, o.,
Jan. 81, 1882.
To the Editor of the Kansas City Journal }
VIII you be kind enough to publish
the enclosed article from the Kalamazoo
Weekly Gazette? The diffusion OF this
knowledge is of the utmost Importance
to mankind; hence we hope 10 find an
organ in the Journal to disseminate this
information among the people of the
State of Kansas and the United States.
Frank Leslie's paper, illustrated, com
pliments your management highly. Inc
hypothesis, the supposition or the con
lecture of the changing of .he zones OF
the earth is not new. Some of the abcst
scientists the world has produced were
satisfied such changes had taken place
in the history of the globe; but none
had surmised correctly as to how the
event could have been brought about;
they dismissed the contact with comets
as untenable. They lowered around the
truth. We have now demonstrated 1t,
and, having been discovered, are anxi-
Gus TO have it known. Our confidence
is shown in the infexible zeal with which
we have written and sent hundreds OF
letters and postal cards to editors,
scientists and others, for four years, no
tifying them of said terrestrial change.
We ask respectfully that you hold your
Judgment in abeyance until such times
as you shall have lad an opportunity OF
more carefully observing the changed
climatic condition Of the State OF Kan
sas and the United States Reports
thermometric received from your State
show the same surprising increase in
heat. 1t is safe TO make the prediction
that in few years Kansas will become
one of the greatest cotton producing
States in the Union. She raised one
hundred bales in 1881, which augurs
well for her future. Cotton has also
boiled in Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio.
The Alligators have invaded the States
OF Tennessee and Ohio and are playing
around the fiat boats at Cincinnati.
They will paddle in the Missouri river
inside Of three years, ard there remain,
because directly upon the new equator
ial line. Trees are in bloom in the
Northern States in September, October
and November. The abandoned camels
Oh our Western plains have bred, in
creased and multiplied and are running
wild i'll droves in Arizona and New
Mexico. There is time coming in the
history Of the West when they will be
as much used as horses. Millions OF
dragon flies and winged ants are in the
West, that winged their aerial fight
from the old torrid zone TO the new.
The great dread to Kansas will be the
advent of long continued, exhaustiug,
parching droughts; the grass will fail,
the crops will cease to grow, terrible
prairie coDfagrations will now take
place over a vast extent of country and
in different States at the same time.
Heretofore when such conhagrations
did take place they were local in their
character; now they will be wide ex-
tended aud not only forest will disap-
pear, but houses, barns and fences. In
| 1873 / predicted the Michigan fires, see
my published astronomical lecture en-
titled "Wonderful Predictions" The
summer of 1882 will be the hottest in
the history of the United States TO date.
The increase 10 heat here III four years
is S.25 degrees.
The following is the article alluded
to from the Kalamazoo Gozsue Of Jan
uary 90, 1882:
Owing to change in the parallelism
of the axis Of rotation Of the earth,
which took place during superior
planetary conjunction, October IL, 1877,
the entire United States is in the torrid
zone since then, compared with the
preceding four years, January is 7.59
degrees hotter, February 1880 degrees
hotter, March 1476 degrees hotter,
April 20 79 degrees hotter, May ll.46
degrees hotter, June singular to say, is
1892 degrees colder, July 400 degrees
hotter, Angus; % degrees hotter, Sep
tember $50 degrees hotter, October
20.l2 hotter, November s. % hotter, De
cember is l degree hotter. Increasing
substantially degrees annually. Year
ly mean temperature on the old eqnlto-
rial line, so degrees; mean temperature
on the 4Oth parallel Of latitude, 81 de-
grees; so degrees minus 54 degrees
equals 26 Degrees divided by 2 degrees,
present annual inefease, equals l3 years,
added TO A. d. 1877, when the change
took place, equals A. d. 1890, when
the heat on the new equatorial line will
equal that which prevailed on the old
equator, or in eight years from this time,
a. d. 1882, we will nave tbe full blaze
Of an unclouded equatorial sun. Intwo
years more, a. d. 1884, il will average
60 degrees, when all kinds Of tropical
fruits and productions can be raised
successfully. That yearly mean viii be
sufficient TO give nature tropical as
pect. In making the astronomical calcu-
lations and calling the transi,s ] was in-
L., no.l To hmm hQ