Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-05
APRIL STORMS.
No More Cold Weather is Pre-.
dicted for the South.
DANGEROUS OCEAN STORMS.
Great Flood in the Missouri RIver-why
the sun, the Planets and the Moons
Don't Run Into Each Other-The
Laws of Electricity.


pI'cC.A4 " me IaEetlc.
! ST. JOSEPH, Mo, April my last letter
( gave dates of storm wave due 10 cross the
I continent from 9TH to It'll All the storm
waves OF this month, rs heretofore stated,
/ viii show unusual energy because of the
near approach of S@tmn's equinox, and
I from this till the June storms of 1892 have
passed ali the storms viii develop more
: than average energy, including some of the
most destructive and dangerous that have
occurred since 1852. Following April the
next disturbance will be due TO leave the
Pacific coast about the 10Th, pass the Rocky
ALCHEMY valley from llth to 18th and
reach the Atlantic coast about the l4th
I ms storm will close the tifty-seCOnd day
rain period which wa due TO set in about
April /. The general course of this dis
turbance will be along the 10th degree of
north latitude, but the rainfall will princi-
pally be south of that line. The cool wave
following ana the frOStS Will not be severe
and VIII be confined to northern latitude.
Another storm wave will be due to leave
the Pacific coast about the 10th, cross the
kocky-Allegheny valley from l1th to 18Th
and reach the Atlantic coast about the u. h.
ms storm viii become very dangerous on
the Atlantic east OF New York city in about
the longitude OF Labrador on April 81. and
II VIII not be safe 10 be on that part of the
ocean ct that tine. At the same time.
April 81 a dangerous storm viii be of the
coast of Alaska southeast of Behring sea.
On this continent this 10th to 2Oth storm
will not be remarkable. but the cool wave
following 1t will probobly develop destruc-
tive frostS rs far south as the 3Sth degree of
north latitude. The March storms were
almost continuous | expect great flood
in the Missouri river during April from
excessive rains and melting OF the SHOWS in
the mountains.
WEATHER AND SCIENCE NOTES
In the discussion the ORIGIN of FOrpa
and the accommodations of matter | have
reached IN early period of the suns exist
ence, the argument placing il somewhere in
space subject to the Interchangeable laws Of
the physical forces and caused TO revolve on
its axis by the electric currents circulating
through 1t and constituting of it Il magnet.
1t Is not reasonable to suppose that ours
was the first sun Of our cluster that came
into existence. The stars are all suns like
our own, and ours is one Of the very small
est among the millions of suns known to ex-
ist, many OF which are thousand times
iarCer than ours. But all these suns-the
starS-Were most undoubtedly organized by
the same process and under the same laws
OF force and therefore, for argument sake
we will suppose that ours was tbs first sun.
As before stated any object charged with
electricity, or through which Il current Of
electricity circulatcs, Immediately is pos
seSSed Of an electric atmosphere and that
C-SSNI4C atmosphere extends out IN
space IN proportion TO the force
of the electric charge orcurrent
running through it. Also, as be-
fore stated, Accommodations Of mat
ter fall into body of electri-
city from the same causes that impella cork
10 rise 10 the top of Il body of water there
fore as the sun gradually gathered matter
and increased in size its electric currents
increased in force and its electric Amos
phere in depth, reaching further out into
space, thereby causing all the smaller &C
foundations Of matter to fall in the sun
This accumulation OF matter would cause !
the sun 10 be perfectly round because it
would attract us much matter TO one part
of II as to another.
the physical forces, Professor Siemens,
clearly demonstrated that the electric cur |
rents come to the earth around its north |
and south poles, and pass from the earth |
all around the equator. Most writers on |
this subject contend that these currents |
form circuit, and that after going out into |
space the currents return by way of the |
poles. We know that this is the case in all |
natural magnets, and as these currents
come to the earth over wide space around |
both the north ana south poles of the
earth and unite at the equator. the currents
going from the earth at the equator are of |
vastly greater force than those around the
pOItS anu SLlOul OI 10 immense DIS talceS
with the speed of light. This argument as
to the earth must apply to the sun, for
there cannot be one law of force for the sun
and another for the earth This electric
force over the suns equator is body of
and, therefore, smaller accumu-
atiOns OF matter fall into that body and are
conducted by ii to the sun or earth and
his is one of several reasons why the earth
S bulged at the equator, having greater
there than at any other point.
II might be supposed that as the electric
ty goes from the sun at its equator it would
AIRY matter with it. but this is not the
;ase, for matter when in body of cleo
licity falls TO lis center or the denser parts
II it AMI the electric oody forms on the sur
ace or outside of the body of matter This
las reference 10 matter which has no per
ect electric organization, for well organized
bodies like the earth and moon cannot come
Ogether because their electric atmospheres
prevent. We know this by experiments.
wo pith balls charged with electricity will
~ asunder, the electric atmosphere of
ach driving the other away The principal
rowth of all planets and suns are at their
quators, which will be further discussed
w. T. FOSTER