Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-02-26
EDGAR L. wAKEMAN.
FOSTERS WEATHER.
The Storm Wave That viii
Break Winters Back
WILL Be IN IT'S COLD STATE
IN Tcxns About March lin Notthera
Latuudcs Vegetables wnl Need Proc
teol,on-rhe fire Rocks Found
In the Crust Of the Earth
WILL BE IN IT'S colo STATE

tCowrigm 1893, by w ~ Fostcrl
81 Joseph No. Feb 20. My last hui
leun gnyc forecasts Of tie storm wave 90
crpsS The cOutiucnt frVm Bird 10 18th.
and the next win rcach the Pacific coast
about the 2ith the grcut central valleys
| iunn Alarcl lst 10 3rd. aud the eastern
states about the 2lth
The storm wave will be- of little morn
ihnu nvcrawc force IN the west. hut about
March = q win bogin 90 show greater
increased force east of the Mississippi
river
ITO cool wave will cross the western
mountains about March y. the Ereat
central valleys about the 4th and the Gust
era states about the 9th The coOl wave
viii be nj its greatest fOrcc nhOut Tie itli
IA The rNWt central valleys
The SECOND storm wave ot March will
roach the Pacific coast about the 9th.
ctrss the western mountains by the close
Of the 9TH, the great ccntul valleys from
tth ~ 9th, aud the eastern states ahnut
tlw dotl, Tho cool wave will cross the
western mouninins about the Sth. the
great central valleys about the 10Th. and
the eastern states about the l2tb. Early
vegetables Ia northern latltudcs will
nend protection FROM frosts a. the co0l
wnvr pnrses
WEIGHING THE PLANETS.
Surrounding every heavenly body h an
atnosphcrc and an clectrosnherc TIE
Atmosphere Is an the bottom of the cleo.
truphcrc, mkt 10 the solid hndy aome.
Wilma similar to IL sediment that settles
w water Tho clcUtrpsphcr n very much
lighter than the atmosphere. aud there.
iorc the lntt'r S'ttlcs at the bottom Of
The FORMER
Scicut'ds take distilled wnier at a
temperature of ~ degrves "a the stan.
dntd and Will 10 compare an other sub.
Stances The word MASS menns about
The sNtne az weight AMI density ~ used
20 compare The weight of two equal huks
Of matter
Tho average weight Of the cartl. not
including its atmosphere or cloud, IN i've
aud onc-hnlf times that OF water. That
~ a cubic tOoi Of earth taken from
about 1000 Miles below tie uirfncN would
weigh Ave and onc,hnlf times nS much M
q cubic foot Of water ON the cnidh's sur
face. Below 2OOO fees into the onrth
The lnntcrnls ar moro condensed and
heavier aud above thai point they are
lighter, iill you Vn,h wntor nt sen level
which rs ttp standard of measure.
Mercury, including his cloud-belts aud
nimoHpheru, weighs. On nn average. six
and one-haif timcr thnt of water. Tho
wNgli OF Venus 10 not known. because n
Nhe Inns mon Il N not visible to The ia
hnbtants Of our earth Mars. not includ-
ing his atmosphere, averages four times
the weight of water; Jupiter. Including
his cloud belts, enc and onc-hnlf times
water saturn, with its cloud-bclts, hut
MOI including the rings thrive fuurthH
that of water; Uranus little loss and
Neptune lltuc rnurc ti-an onc-sixth that
OF water including their cloud-helis.
by tho TORN including their cloud
bolts mean thai In getting az The aver.
ngc weight Of cubic foot OF these
BODIES, the size Of tl.e planet is measured
irnin tllr outskirts Of the cloud helts,
while N the cloud belts are not included
the measurement only includes that part
Of the planet below the average land
Lowell
Il " well known thar our ntniosphere Ia
much moro dcTlno At sea level tbnn MI
rreat elevations Birds that ny high iu
ne atmosphere are lightcst, fishes that
I'VE at the bottom Of the aen are most
dense; water al the bottom of the ocean
has the density of stone. iue floats be-
cause u ~ less dense than water.
Following OUT these laws of nature Ny,
find thui the heaviest planets sink decpest
into the suns atmosphere. and whvf
For two rcahulmi one because of tho
density Of tAeir mass and the oihrr be.
cause Of their elearospEcros being smaller
nnd OF lcis density ia proportion 90 thoit
mnRa than ~ the case with the other
llanctl. Therefore, the planets nfflnipo
themselves at depth n the sums ,.l,.,.
trosphew IA proportion 10 the relative
mass and density OF she planet ms com
pared with It's own electrosphon.
II thle last proposition were not tYue.
Noptunc's orbit would be- on The lngde
o. the obit Of Urnnus. for the former NJ
more dense than the latter. aud N Il ala
not have more extensive and densD
eletrosphere thnn Uranus Il wOnld surely
sink INTO the suns elecirOsphere t!ll X
would be- nearer the sun thnn Urnnng Ia
Evidently the olectrOspheres of nil the
planets aud moons are increasing, nnd
That Is tho element which is slowly car
iying our moon farther and hirthor frotu
the earth, IN whose elecrOsphere tho
moon " floating
Tie earth is surely accommodating mnt
ter from space, growing IL cloctrOspLnro
incraang and while this aids Ia driving
the moon farther away II also aoats mn
earth farther from he sun
Every solid subs ancp Charged with
electricity Immediately forms ana retains
AM eledroaphcre, and 10 undergtand Ills
Hubioci more clearly You should read
some good work on electricity, mch as
Guthriu's.
! win ask the readrr TO study th,s
lpiter carefully, as Il ~ The bass II inv
tutnro arguments E 10 the lgn01na, on
IRE rocks, found Ia whit n supposed
% be the crust Of tho earth. and which
were formed before the caYths lsdenic
age