Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-12-21
A BIGGER STORM COMING.
Foster. the Weather Prophet, Predicts
More Trouble for This Week.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo, December 20.-W. II.
Foster makes the following weather pre-
dictions The next storm wave will be due
to leave the Pacific coast about the 2lst
When we get news from the North Pacific
il will give accounts of very rough weather
there on the 10Th and Goth. This storm
wave will pass the eastern slope OF the
Rocky mountains about the 22d, cross the
Mississippi valley from 22d to oath and
reach the Atlantic coast about the 18th. 1t
will be of more than ordinary force
and will affect all the States
north of the fortieth parallel in
the way of snow and gales, and all
the States south of that parallel with rain.
Cooler weather will follow this storm than
followed the previous one. The rainfall
and snow on the whole will largely IN
crease, but will continue to be largely IN
countries near the sea level. The last
storm was calculated to be most severe on
the Atlantic coast about the 18th or 10Th.
| expect colder weather during the first
two weeks in January, but the month will
NOT be a severe one. | believe there will
be an increase in rainfall in 1891 in the Mis-
sissippi and Missouri valleys along the
fortieth degree OF north latitude. May,
1891 will bring the most disastrous storms
since 1928.
In studying meteorology or any of the
phvsical sciences one of the most import
ami items is the nature of attraction. 1t is
usually spoken of as a pull, but this is an
impossibility. 1t must be a push. To IL
lustrate: The earth and all the planets
have greater diameters thrpugh their equa-
tors than through their poles. Why.
Astronomers say that while the earth was
a heated and melted mass It's rapid revolu-
ton on its axis caused 1t 70 elongate IN the
direction of its equator, but deny that-it
was ever melted mass any more than we
now see in the volcanoes. Bodies OF cleo
tricity are to solid mattq ike bodies OF
water. expelling the lighter while the
heavier sinks into it. The sarth throws off
body of electricity over Is equator and
solid bodies in space aye pushed into
that electrical body, and seeking its center
are conveyed to near the frth's equator.
This is one cause of the earth's greater
growth at its equator, while vegetable
Growth furnishes another. All the
planets were originally Comets, and were
pushed from space TOWARD the suns
electric center, its eeu,tor. But their
momentum caused them tdpass beyond the
sun,s eouator. and then tie resistance of
matter pushed them back toward the suns
electric belt again, and sothev continue to
vibrate. each time passinT little less as
tancn beyond the center orhe suns electric
belt. The earth now ouy goes seven de-
Crees north and south Of tie suns equator,
and the moon only five degrees north ana
south of tine earth's equaor Placing an
electric body on one side OF the matter
taLes or drives away tie resistance OF
pressure of the universal fatter ol space
and the resistance on the fher slde pushes
the matter into the centd of the electric
| body
Organized bodies, like peteors, comets
moons and planets have n, weight toward
any other body. as theft matter presses
equally toward their ovh centers. An
other fact has much I'd do with these
questions: Whatever nttter-l regard
electricity as matter-mo'es in one direc
ton other matter moves in the opposite
direction. Ali physical scientists agree
that electricity passes fran sun and plan
cts over their equator; and returns tC
them at their poles, and electricity passing
from the earth at its equ apr would require
that other matter come tolt at the equator
and pass from it at the pile, so my theory
does not disagree with 9ferasiy accepted
scientific principles. Bat when two or
ranized bodies come near each other thell
electric fields repel each other, and, there
fore, the planets moons, suns and comet
cannot fall into each other. This explains
the tides.