Telegram-herald., 1890-11-24
SOME STORM WAVES
Very Pine Weather Is Predicted
For December.
TIE FlFn-TEO DAYS RAIN PERIOD
C&ass OF Droath -Is the saB a borates
MsssS-Au Esidenoss 81 Hsat ga the
Ekrth Caa be Acesantea Ter ~
simply Volcanic Aetl8a.

+ spseisl Correspondents % InSsEAN HEsAIps
81. JosEFn, No, NOV. 22.-some lr-
4 regularity Will occur IN the next storm
waves, because the moon oTossos the
eaFths equator Al the same time that
+ the storm wave viii be Que GA the
Pscihc coast. ana the storm vii show
+ lis greatest force there at thst time,
While an extra storm wave viii proba-
bly, develop IA the Mississippi valley al
the same time. The regular storm wavo
will be due 10 leave the Pacific coast
+ about the 22d, cross the great middle
valley from the 23d to the 18th, aud
reach the Atlantic coast about the 26th.
With this storm viii end the severe
( November disturbances. and ] expect
some very fine December weather.
There will be two quite severe storms
/ in that month, however, and the last
one viii inaugurato the fifty-iwo days
rain period which last occurred about
the 2sth of October.
CAUSE OF DROUTHs.
An esteemed friend near Fort Worth,
Tex, wants 10 know the cause OF the
extreme rainy and drouth years. l
know the cause, but the details are
very difficult to calculate. When a
( superior plsnet-those outside of the
earth's orbits at perhelion-its near
est approach TO the earth the IN
creased electrical tension expands our
atmosphere by evaporating more OF
the earth's waters. This causes a
deeper atmosphere. which floats the
moisture to more elevated regions, like
the the Dakotas, leaving dry weather
near the sea level. When the planet is
at aphelion-farthest from the earth
as Jupiter has been for three years
past, IL has the reverse influence,
shallow atmosphere that will not float
the moisture 10 elevated regions, and
the heavy rams fall near the sea level,
as has been the case in Texas for three
years. But there are five of these
planets. Mars passes perhelion about
once in twenty-three months, Jupiter in
twelve years, Saturn twenty-nine and
one-half years, Uranus elghiy-fOur
years, and Levener 100 years. They
pass their sphelions about halfway
between their perhellons. Their intiu-
ences sometimes neutraliZe eacn other.
The middle ground-Kansas and Col
orado - suffer from both extremes,
causing drouth. Jupiter has influence
equal to all the other planets. When
the perhelion or aphelion Of Jupiter
and Saturn occur at the same time the
effect is disastrous, but this cannot oc-
Gun oftener than once IN 80 years. 1t
/ occurred I'D 1862 and Will occur again
| IN 1899. Saturn was st aphelion in
1901, Jupiter in October 1886, Mars,
November is, 1889 By long and care
| full calculations the results from these
influences may he estimated. Another
influence must be taken into account.
When tine planets .are south of the
eaIth's equator they pull the atmos-
phere south leaving II shallow north.
and the reverse when they are north of
/ the equator This NAV add TO or de-
tract from the other influences men,
toned. The earth, Venus and Mercury
have the same influences at shorter in
tervals. The moons pengee and APP
pogee have a like influence.
Is THE Sun A BURNING MASS?
Several gentlemen of san Antonio,
Texas, have submitted a number Of
questions which | viii reply TO as space
Will permit. One OF these questions Is:
"How DO you reach the conclusion that
the sun Is not q burning mass? Tie
laws OF nature must be the same every
where, and IN all time, and the sun
must nave come INTO existence 10y the
1 a fnrnna no oftA
of the same materials az did the earth,
and there is 10 evidence that the earth
was ever burning mass. All eviden-
ces of heat III the earth can be account
ed for bv volcanic action and volcanoes
are caused by burning gases, coal, &c,
lgnited by the electro current that IS
known TO move from east to west M
what geologlsts call the crust of the
earth. The broad tops of the Andes
/ mountains ln South America, under
the equator, where the sun has It's
greatest power. are covered with per
petual snow, although they are nearer
the sun than are the valleys below.
If the sun il hot and the hest comes 20
US from It, the snow on the mountain
would melt before Il would IN the val
| ley. Our atmosphere Tesists heat, and
heat coming from the sun would lose
its force as 10 comes down through the
atmosphere, but We find that the equs.
tor, when the sun = overhead, the heat
is more than loo degrees greater at sea
} level than Il is i've mics above and
nearer to the sun. This proves that
the electric currents from the sun, re.
sisted by our atmosphere, are heated
just ne are the electric currents when
they pass through a telegraph or other
wire that a = poor conductor klec
tricity coming from the son would iu
crease the beat in passing through ouI
atmosphere 20 the earth. HhIie the hes'
would decrease in intensity from thf
time it resChed the atmosphere above
I tiil it reached the earth ct ga leveI
therefore q cannot be heat. and nus'
Be electricity. When we sscend far ~
INTO the atmosphere the sun ioses ia
light, snd q not brighter than the fol
moon st ses level. the heavens become
back instead of blue. he rotation ol
The earth causes a deeper stmosphe-'
st the equator than fer frcm g. a.
there tie SUD snd moon arf ear ~ & 70
sst Ne know faat feat sna tlsCfT5ct t'
arc tie sane. and that whfn eliae.