Telegram-herald., 1891-02-08
FRICHTFUL STORMS
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nearing the most destructive storm per-
lod OF reesnt yeassL A period thai hAs
not been eqaaIed tor stznosphsfc and
eastn dlstarbAssss within the memory
OF any person nov living. and | would
sdyiss all "a prepare for it. There will
bs more Of and the most destructive
tornadoss. the most severe hlizzsrds
aud cod waves, the deepest snoss. the
greatest rzlnfzlls and other extremes
Of the weather from the iirss Of May
th.s year TO sAe nEss OF May, is92. that
has ever been Witnessed BY the people
nos living. As my readers well know,
Arm not gwen 10 sensational rredic-
tions. aud will probably be eensured
for these forecasts. bat the occasion de-
msnts all that l say about il. aud time
viii yindicate my action in the matter.
THIS period Of great disturbances will
begin during the nrst part OF May while
Mars viii DC passing rs equinoctial.
Mercury passing the suns equator, and
the moon passing the earth's equator.
bot while these storms Will be very
severe they will not compare with those
that VII occur later IN tho year and
during the first part of 1892. This will
also DC = period OF great earthquakes
IN countries where they are common.
aud volcanoes viii become more COM
mon and increase IN activity.
The principal causes of these great
disturbances VII be the eQulnoxes OF
saturn and Jupiter. These great pian-
cts throw an electric influence into
space over their equators. and tins
electric influence of saturn will strike
Mars an May, while il - passing its
eaulnoetial. thereby us electric iniiu-
ence on the sun. The electro equator
of saturn will affect Venus. the Earth
aud Mercury in succession. and Will
directly affect the sun in October, while
ON the opposite side OF the sun the
great planet Jupiter viii be approach
ing Is equuOctal In n similar manner,
reaching that point early IN January.
FEBRUARY wEArHER.
The next storm wave will be due to
leave the Pacific Coast about the llth.
pass the Rock-Allega valley from the
18th 10 the i4th. and reach the Atlantic
Coast about the 10Th. 1t will be OF con-
siderable force in the West. with warm,
damp weather preceding IL and not y
very cold wave following it. A large
amount of snow and rain will fail dur
ing It's passage across the continent,
mostly rain In the Southern States
The low carorseter will pass through
the Northern States and the rain Will
fall south OF the center of its path and
snow north OF It, The cold wave fol-
lowing will not be severe IN the South
ern States. The winter weather will be
less severe IN the Eastern States and
colder IN the Mississippi valley than has
been the average of thus lar.
WEATHER AND SCIENCE NOTES.
Preparatory to studying the physical
forces aud the beginnings of creation,
We must bring fresh to memory the vast
distances between the bodies of the
universe. Our minds can rot grasp the
immenslty of these distances and we
can only approach realization OF their
yastness by comparisons.
Take 1000 miles as u unit of measure.
Twenty-Five OF these units will reach
Once around the earth at its equator
and forty times around the earth will
make i,U00,0o miles. The sun Is about
92,0o0, 600 of miles from the earth, and
astronomers tell Us that hght reaches
the earth from the sun IN about eight
minutes | do not believe that light
reaches US At all from the sun, but elec-
tricty when turns 20 light on reaching
our atmosphere. They also tell us that
it requires 5000 years for hgh. TO reach
the earth from the nearest fixed stars.
Neptune, the outer planet OF our solar
system. "a thirty times farther from the
sun than the earth - and moves I'm a
circuit OF about $50, ,o0e, coo miles IN
extent.
cur astronomers hold that this, our
solar system, came INTO existence from
y nebular formation. or frog-likc
formation that reached far beyond ouI
outer planet Nepture. They mold that
tins frog-liks formation was thrown
into a rotary motion by some unsug
gested and unknown power, the mo-
mentum OF which = the cause of the
movements of the sun and It's planets
and when that momentum spends u:
force our whole solar system. will stoE
and become dead. This - called tn
mechanical universe. that Is like ma
chine that requires some outside force
10 keep Il IN motion. That great nebul
Gus frog-bali y supposed TO have grad u
ally condensed, becoming heated a
the center. W. T. FOSTER.
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