Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-19
FOSTERS WEATHER.
Now Comes the Winter of Our
Discomfort.
A STORM NOT A BLIZZARD.
The Time for Cur Battles With the EIe-
ments Draws Internationally Near.
Winter Weather About November
2o-The Days for Outdoor Work
Copyrighted, 1891, by W. T. Foster.l

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Special to the Gazette.
ST.. JOSEPH, Mo, Nov. 13.-We have
passed the beauties of another .'Indian
summer" and we have passed the season
of the West Indian hurricanes. The latter
cause the former. and while we have been
enjoying the beautiful days, now past, the
West 1ndias, the BermudaS, our Atlantic
coast and the paths of the great steamers
between Europe and America have been
overwhelmed by what the photographic
Office of the navy department declares to
have been the greatest and most disastrous
storms ever recorded for October. While
they have suffered we have seen our May,
but the tables have turned and the time for
our battles with the elements draws IN
comfortably near.
Forecasts of the storm wave due to cross
the continent from the 1lth to the 18th were
given in my last letter, and the next will be
due to leave the Pacific coast about the
18th, crosses the central valleys from the
18th to the Goth, and will reach the Atlantic
coast about the 2lst.
November has no light storms on Its roll
of weather disturbances this wear, and this
one will affect the whole continent, its CEN
ter running further south than the average
for the past month. Winter weather will
follow il with SHOWS in many places, but
not excessive.
This storm will be of about even force in
its entire journey across the continent, and
will not run TO sudden extremes, but will
be general widespread disturbance, with
marked features. but not so severe as the
storm to follow il. l use the word storm"
to denote weather disturbance, and not to
mean destructive storm. When | expect
a tornado. blizzard or hurricane, | will say
so in terms that cannot be miscohstrued.
The best days for outdoor work will be
about the lin anu 10th West OF Denver, 18th
and 22d in the great central valleys, and
18th and 23d in the Eastern states.
THE PLANET MARS.
Astronomers are generally agreed that
the two moons of Mars came to that planet
within few years past, and this is very
strong argument in favor of the electrical
theory. The nebular theory holds that the
earth was a molten mass, and when its
crust had formed its cooling interior shrank
away from this outer crust, which finally
broke it, and coming together formed our
moon. This idea contains the gist of the
whole nebular theory of creation.
The electrical theory holds that bodies of
matter are growing IN all parts of chaotic
outer space by Accommodations and coudensa-
tons of electric ether now, as has been
the case in all the past, and that these
bodies come to our solar system as comets
occasionally one of them being caught by
the magnetic influences of our solar system,
becoming planet, moon or an asteroid
There are about three hundred of these
small planets moving around the sun in
ORBITS between Mars and Jupiter, and our
astronomers believe that the two moons Of
Mars are Identical with these small planets
called asteroids, and that they came from
the asteroidal belt within ten years past.
The moons of Mars are very small, said
to be not more than fifty miles in diane
ter, and are not easily seen except when
Mars is at perihelion-nearest point to the
sun-and the earth at the same time be-
tween Mars and the sun, and this occurs
only once IN about nine years. These
moons were discovered at the last of these
coniunctions, and therefore came to Mars
between the last two such coniunctious.
CnQuestionably Mars received her moons