Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-22
FOSTERS WEATHER,
We Win Have Very Cold Wealth.
or in February.
A COLDER MONTH THAN USUAL
WIN lhc Next One Re-Ths Flfsl Storm Wave
Of Next Month viii Reach the Great
Central Valleys al Worry Early
Date Tho Moon Comet
nEor tha snndnr Gnnaltel

Vopyught lkR6, by w. W. Fostcrl
81 Joseph. Mo, Jan. 21-My last
bulletin gave forecasts Of storm waves
90 GROSS the continent FROM 10th 10 23rd.
and from 10Th 70 10Th, 1'he 6rst storm
wave OF February win reach the Pacific
coast about Jan. 20, cross The Western
mountains by thg close Of the Both, the
great central valleys from 3iet ~ Feb.
2 aud the hnstcru states about the 3rd.
The approach Of this storm wnve viii
come ncnr caueing q January tiaw. but
very cold waathnr viii return as we AZ.
preach lbc middle Of February.
A cold wave win move eastward cross
ing The Western mountains about Feb.
l. the great rentfnl valleys about the Hrd
aud the Eastern states about the 9TH
ChnuEeablo, unccrtnin, threatening
weather Ia the Missouri and upper
mississippi valleys about the Bird and
ith
The month Of February Is expected 20
average colder than usual, especially
from Sth 10 18th.
THE MOON COMET.
Padre Sccchi OF Rome carefully exam
I ined Noted comet aud gives it W. bis
/ opinion that the head or nucleus u COM
posed 0f carbon II there Is any reliance
TO DE placed IN the cpcctrum analysis Of
/ comets SCcohi Ia CORRECT Or. Schellen
says, There scems nothing TO con-
|
| comet may De composed Of minute solid
hodica, Kept apart from enrh other In
! the same way that iniinitosimal poru-
rles forming q clond Of dust Or smoke
are hold loorcly together
Tie Ediuhurgh Review saysi "fhe
nucleus ~ comet ~ cluster Of solid
nudules or granuloe' Professor Proctor
snys that mVloors, comets, planets and
the sun are composed of the same kind
| of materials. He also estimates Tint
! the solid particles of the great mUtcOric
ring are about 1000 milea apart while
~ The comets these PARTICLES afc closer
together.
strikes our atmosphere tlio friction IT its
rapid Hight causes combustion, aud We
see tile light Of the meteor ana tho
mcteoric stone falls tO tho earth ns a
remnant OF the motCOr The carbon ~
Che meteor burma, b consumed, and the
metals and slpup-hkc substances re-
main 10 form the acroiiC.
The cnmot has relatively small head
surrounded 10y Mn immense cNpuusp ~
gaseous envelope, the inttcr filled ns
suggested by the scienhHts by widely
scpamted nodulcN lho envelope Of
Birlas comet was $4,000 miles Va diame-
ter
The solid part of the 1887 comet h
computed 10 be- $500 nllles lu diameter.
Our earth is only 1900 niles Tho
diameter OF our moon II about 5000
miles.
III the moon. comet struck our onrlh
aud bounded Oh Into space again whit
would hc the rcsultY The oxygen aud
hydrogen of the mOon.conot aud the
earth would combine. forming an Inn
nenNe uuDnuty of water, The static
electricity OF the two combined would
yapOTisn vast QuanutOe of water and
PORTIONS OF the more solid parts Of each
a combination Of gnssca would cause
great conilamhtons and an Intense hcnt
ln the tail OF the mOOn.C0mct would bU
myiinda of neroitps that would come to
the earth, forming the gravel now found
on tho cnrih. aud for which gOOlogists
nrr unable to account The carbon Of
the moon comet moi consumed by the
contact would remain w the atmosphere
az preeipltated y The long geological
npr's Ia follow. Water, coal and lime, IA
ma nttonuated state. would form dark
hrlts around the Garth similar 60 what
we now see surrounding Jupiter, Saturn,
Venus aud Uranus. The light OF the
sun would hr shut ont aud the age oi
dnrhnoss would follow
These are but natural results, such us
Nc know are in operation on the other
planets and On n smaller scale takiug
place every day on our earth
Now | have arrived ut D poiut where
! 4 cnu agree with the orthodox scientists
! have differed with them Ia this. They
claim that the earth wRa originally 4
burning body aud hOcnnre of this heat all
the volatile clomonA those that may be-
yAporized were driven out into our nc.
iuOHphoTe and ulat AZ the nHrih cooled
these volatile clcmcnts preclpimted, form.
ing the strata Of the earth az We now
and thcm. But they can give no san.
factory cause fOr u burning enrth. and
as the nebular theory y nov generally
rejected the burning earth theory must
fall OF its own weight.
My theory h that the earth WAX struck
hy The moon while yei q comet aud thus
Our atmosphere was filed by ynpofized
water, coal. lime and othcr minerals
which, Ia after ages were deposited
where We now iind them.
NJ Flgner held that the earth'a Atni0s.
phcre originally extended as far ont as
The moon and Proctor believed thai Tho
earth then reyOlyoh on itp axis Va three
hours. Professor Vail says 1T must
be remembered TINT al The carbon In
the great easement Of aqueous rocks.
the vast ocenhs Of carbon now contained
10 the slllcatcs aulphetes, cnr1ODntts
and oxides Of the earths crust. as we'll
az the nitrogen and hydrogen, " numcr.
aus compounds, enormously Rweiled the
volume Of the eurths atmosphere"
The most eminent scientists nKree that
the earth's primitive atmosphere ca.
tended 100000 miles Out into space
Otherwise the strata OF the enrtl
crust cannot be accounted for,
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