Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-10-13

Permit some farther notes Of observations of
the "after-glow." One of the most briian, dis.
plays was on the evening Of Sunday, September
goth, IS days after / first observed it. After
sunset the haze-stratum was Illuminated over
the whole sky with colored light, in the west
gradually deepening into flaming crimson
Down this the shadow of the horizon soon
crept. As it lowered, 1t cut off the broad
sheet OF flame in a strangely definite line
sharply without graduation. AT the same time
the out-fanning radiation Of the shadows of re.
mote clouds was family marked in perspective
on the fiery surface, producing also serration
OF the dark edge. After the earth -shadow
had closed down upon the horizon secondary
reflection repeated in fainter glow agains, the
dark night sky the successive phenomena Of
the first. excepting the well-de6ned shadow.
line.
Doctor Stangenwald has observed these re.
Elections with the spectroscope, but without
result, the light being reflected, not transmit
ted through incandescent vapor.
During the past two weeks the haze-stratum
has developed more definiteness OF form. In
certain conditions of sunset light, it has been
distinctly visible as continuous sheet over
the entire sky. a, height far above that Of the
highest cirrus clouds. slight wavy ripple
has been very noticeable in its structure. 1t
has always been perfectly transparent, trans.
hitting the light Of the smallest stars, and il.
self invisible, except in particular conditions
Of the sunlight. During several days, it has
formed conspicuous circle of IS to 20 de.
grees radius against the sun, appearing as
misty ripPled surface Of haze with faint Grim.
son hue, which at the edges Of the circle gave
purplish tint agains, the blue sky.
So the evidence favors a remote source of
this vapor. 1t seems impossible that our own
volcanoes could unobserved have emitted such
vast quantities Of pure tenuous gases, unmixcd
with coarer smoke. Moreover the upper cur
rents would have been such an emission to the
eastward. away from us. Our accustomed
volcanic smokes are uniformly borne eastward.
falling as they cool into the trades which bring
them back, covering the group with coarse
thick haze. In the high region Of this haze
the air-currents are well known to be from the
west, and southwest.
The theory Of remote origin seems also 10
be favored by the long continuance OF very
nearly uniform condition Of this haze. stratum.
local smoke would have rapidly varied its
condition. This has lasted now for four weeks
with little alteration in structure.
II seems to answer well to the character Of
tenuous. delicate residuum Of volcanic smoke,
completely purged Of all its coarser elements
by a kind Of levigaiion in its course through
the upper atmosphere across the Pacific. I, is
most significant that it was first observed nine
days after the Java eruptions. For positive
evidence in support Of this hypothesis we must
wait for observations from points intermediate
between this and Java.
Vessels from the eastward have observed the
same phenomena as ours a, grea, distance from
the islands, proving vast extent Of the haze.
stratum. Captain Penhallow Of the Hope
definitely observed these phenomena in latitude
a%o o. NJ, longitude 1905 az W.. on Sep.
iember 18th. midway between this AMI the
American Coast. S. 4. BIsHoP.
Honolulu, October 4, 1883.
Two little girls met on the street the other
day, and one said to the other 1--WE put all
my dolls into deep morning, and us SO be-
coming to them Come over and see them.
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