Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-05
QUEER WEATHER.
The Next Storm Wave Will
Take Central Route.
CAUSING SNOW IN THE NORTH,
Warm Weather in the South-Au Matter
COMBINATIONS of Electricity-The
Electrical Supply Should be
Brought from Above the
Ciouds-Notes
Copyrighted, 1891, by W. T. Foster.l

Copyrighted 1891, by W. 7. Foster
Special to the Gazette
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Oct. 30.-From the 18th
to the Goth of November will average
warmer than either the first eight days or
the last eight days of the month. Clearing
weather may be expected to leave the Pa
cific coast about the I'd or 3D. of November,
crossing the continent in about four days.
The first half of the month will probably be
more stormy than the last half.
My last letter gave forecasts of the storm
wave due to cross the continent from Octo-
Der 80 to November 3, and the next will be
due to leave the Pacific coast about the 5th,
cross the great central valleys from 9th TO
Sth, reaching the Atlantic coast about the
9th. The storm center will probably take u
central route, causing quite cool weather
and snow in the Northern tier of states, and
as IL passes warm weather will occur in the
Southern states south of it.
Severe frosts will follow it in Northern
and Southern ATTITUDES. Cloudy weather
will increase, and the long periods of beau
tiful sunshine become less extended. Real
winter weather may be expected in all the
Northern tier of states, and near APP
proach to winter in all the states along the
fortieth degree of north latitude. But the
severest weather may be expected during
the first days of the month.
STUDY ELECTRICITY.
OF all the subjects now attracting general
attention none are of more importance than
electricity, and there is certainly a very
great demand for information on that sub
ject More attention should be given this
subject in our institutions of learning, es-
pecially in the high school, seminaries,
colleges and universities.
Electricity is destined to supersede the
use of steam as motive power, gas for
light and wood and coal for fuel, and only
one or two more such men as Edison are
necessary in order to usher in these impor-
tant events much earlier than the masses
will be prepared for them.
The time is probably not far away when
our railroads will be operated by electricity
instead of steam, and this change alone will
require vast amount of education. In all
affairs of the world young men must be
prepared to take the places of the older
ones, and railroad men, especially train
crews, of the near future, must understand
electricity. They must possess vast
amount more information than do the aver
age graduates of our higher schools on this
subject.
To great extent our common schools are
failures compared with what they might be,
because they take up too much time in eff
forts to give each pupil general instead Of
a special education. On an average it re-
Quires ten school years for pupil to grad
uate in our public schools, and one-ffth of
that time is used up in the study of geogra-
ply. Studying the details of the geography
of Asiatic Russia and many other countries
is useful to very few, and in similar man.
psr much useless time Is spent on other