Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-07-11
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Remarkable fleet of the Ftffei
Tower on the Climate Of Paris
Frequent Rams nnd sHOt Weather.
A Paris letter to the New York Tribune
says The Eifel Tower Is said to have
changed the climate Of Paris. As matter
of fact there hos been coinoident with its
existence marked climate alteration.
We have an amount of sultriness, fol-
lowed by heavy rainfalls and thunder
storms, which is, to say the least, alb.
normal. Nights are hotter than ever
felt them before, and New Yorkers fiud
them qnite as hot as any they remember
in their own city. II is true that, apart
from tho sprightly crowds at the Champs
de Mars, there is something peculiarly
exhilaratng in the atmosphere there. Ia
this because the tower is, like Jupiter, q
collector OF clonds charged with cleo.
tFicity and productive OF thunderbolts
Scientists have not yet said their say.
But it stands to reason that when the key
at the end OF Ffanklin's kite string was
able to draw down a thunderbolt, the
vast mass OF iron which springs to the
height OF $50 yards into the sky, rather
10 the form of steeple than tower,
ought TO suck to it electricity in p:opor-
tionate quantities and from great dis.
tsnces.
have been o good deal to the Champs
de Mare, and 4, var lost an opportunity
to mount the tower. / have noticed
from it that il is the rendezvous-to
speak in ti2ure--Ot storm spirits, aud,
indeed, a kind Of vortex into which they
rush. Nevertheless, there has not been
a single electrical accident on or about
the tower. Last Sunday was perched
high up there when the winds beat and
the rain fell in deluges, and the thunder
bolts went flying about, but somehow
we're iInpotent to do mischief. 1t was
very curious to note how the storm clouds
rose, advanced, met, played their furious
FRANKS, and whom O good deal spent,
danced of again TO collect fresh strength.
The biggest of the lot rose some.
where Paris-ward OF Chartres on the fl At
wheat land OF La Beauce. 1t looked
white and woolly, and resembled the
cloud one secs when distant bombshell
bu ST..
! A darker cloud was at short distance
before it. and both were near the ground
They speedily took volume and advanced
straight toward Paris. timilar phenomena
became visible In other directions. The
wind veersd about good deal, and
seemed unable 10 make mp lis mind which
way to go. The big, feecy cloud kept
very white aud the dusky one got duskisr,
but was shot with a copper tinge. The
other smaller white clouds had inconsid-
\ cradle vanguard ones. a lot of them
made straight for Paris from different
| points of the compass. Nobody in the
| grounds Of the exhibition were aware of
their coming. The crowd sat down there
to dine in picnic faShi IN, some occupy.
| ing chairs, others stone stairs, others
placing their silver ON the grassy verges
OF the walks, and oil in holiday trim and
high spirits.
AS saw the biggest of the white clouds
and its dusky foreTunner approach,
climbed to the highest platform OF the
tower, and was hardly there when II was
| upon the giant with crash OF thunder
bolts aud o deluge of rain, which
thought must sweep me OF, notwithstand
ing the solid but rather low parspet.
sailor would have said: "What tremend-
Gus seas we shirt" For perhaps Ave
minutes the rain formed dense curtain,
and nothing was visible at short dis
lance. Then the upper atmosphere
cleared, aud | was above the storm.
uld see the other isolated clouds form.
ing functions, and there was in the way
Of lightning fine pyrotechDic display,
This lasted for perhaps half an hour.
The storm cloud then careered north
delueinR, as have since heard, the north
side OF Paris, and shiveriDg trees.