Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-08-16
WILL THE TOWER BRING STORMS.
How Paris Weather May Be Affected b
Eiliel's Bic Structure.

How Paris Weather May Be Affected by
Eiflels Big Structure.
The Eitfel tower is said to have changed
the climate of Paris. AS matter of fact
there has been coincident with it's exist
ence, marked climatic alteration. We
have al amount of sultriness, followed by
heavy rainfails and thunder storms, which
is, to say the least, abnormal. Nights are
hotter than | ever felt them before, and
New Workers find them quite as hot as
any they remember in tneir owR city. It
is true that apart from the sprightly
crowd at the Champs de Mars tt ere is
something peculiarly exhilerating in the
atmosphere there. Is this becalse the
tower is, ike Jupiter, collector of clouds
charged with electricity and productive
of thunderboitsF Scientists have not yet
had heir say. But it stands to reason,
says a Paris letter to the New York Trib-
une, that when the key at the end Of
Frankln's kite string was able to draw
down thIndtrbOlt the vast mass of iron
which springs to the height of $50 yards
into the sky, rather in the form of
5teeple thau tower, ought to suck to i
electricity IN proportionate quan Titles
and from gr, IT distances.
have beeI d good deal to the Champs
de Mars and never lost an opportunity to
mount the tower. | have noticed from it
that il IL the rendezvous-to speak in
fgHre-Of storm spirits, and, indeed, n
a kind of vortex irto which they rush.
When they do this hey get unruly and
behave like mad things. As the witches
say in Macbeth, they meet "in thunder, in
lightning and in rain" Nevertheless ss,
there has not been a single electrical ac-
cioent on or about the tower. Last Sun
day [ was perched high up there when the
winds beat and the rain fell in deluges,
and the thunderboIts went flying about,
but somehow were impotent to do mis-
chief. II was very curious to note how
the storm clouds rose, advanced, met,
played their furious pranks, and, when Il
good deal spent, danced off again to col
lee fresh strength. As ! saw the biggest
of the white clouds and its dusky foreruu-
ner approachEI climbed to the highest
platform of the tower, and was hardly
there when 1t was upon the giant with q
crash of thu1derbolts sud a deluge of
rain which | thodght must sweep me off,
Notwithstanding the solid but rather low
psr8pet. A sailor would have said: "Whst
tremendU Is seas we ship!" For perha ps
five minutes TIE rain formed a dense cur
tain and nothing was visible at a short
distance. Then the upper atmosphere
cleared anu l was above the storm. l
could see the other isolated clouds form
ing functions, and there was in the way
of lightning, fine pyrotechnic display.
This lasted for perhaps half an hour. The
storm clouds then caresred north, delug
ing, as have since heard, the north side
of Paris, and shivering trees. At Mont
martre 1t divided, or forked, one part
going on toward the southeast and th-
other nor:h toward MontmOrency. 1 also
noticed that white contingent clouds
arose in the direction in which the storm
was going, and made for it, and that by
the time the eastern section got to the
horizon it took menscing proportions.