The Red Cloud chief., 1894-06-08
WEATHER BULLETIN
DEMONSTRATIONS OF WEATHER,
Prepared and Furnished for special
Publication IN the Red Cloud
Chief by w. Il. Foster.

Chief BY W. Il. Foster.
copyrighted in 1894 by W. 7. Foster.l
ST.. JOSEPH, Mo, June stb.-My
last bulletin gave forecasts Of the
storm wave to cross tho continent
from June 14th to 18th and
the next will reach the Pacific coast
about the 18th, cross the western
mountains by close Of the 10Th and
the great centrel valleys from goth to
22d, and the eastern states about
the 23d.
The week promises. to average cooler
than the general average temperature
for june. This has reference to the
whole country and only indicates that
places Of low temperature will exceed
those Of a high temperature. Rainfall
will occur in spots above the average
from the 95th meridian eastward.
The warm wave will cross the west.
ern mountains about the 18th, the
great central valleys about the goth
and the eastern states about the 22d.
The cool wave will cross the western
mountains about the 21st the great
central valleys about the 23d and the
eastern states about the 25th.
ELFCTRoLYsEs.
This term Is used 10 connection
with eleetro-plating, but herein it is
used in connection with the weather.
Before we can have rain the water
must DO electrolysed, or in more com
mon sense terms, %evaporated.
A standard authority says: "Solids
which conduct electricity undergo nc
chemical change. Non-metallio Ii.
guilds always undergo decomposition,
Perfectly pure water is difficult 10 cleo,
%trolyse and may be ranked with non.
conductors, but sulphuric acid diluted
with twenty or thirty thousand times
its own volume Of water ccnducts
freely, and is therefore decomposed
abundantly. The visible products o.
tho electrolyses OF such a mixture orc
tho elements Of hydrogen and oxygen
two volumes hydrogen to n Of oxy
gen. II the electrodes are very small
and the current strong the whole o.
the strength is concentrated on
small space and the result is that tn
tension is 40 increased that both waite
and salt are decomposcd together"
The above authoritative statement
arc important in that they prove tina
evaporation Of water takes place NOR
readily from sea water than from frcsl
water lakes, and also more ieadil,
from mineral lands than those that ar,
free from mineral mixtures.
The soils Of the countries lynn
within 200 or 800 miles east of tn
Rocky mountains contain q large por
ton Of mineral mixtures, and there
fore the moisture of those soils is NOR
readily evaporated.
Discussing q kindred subject, A. W
Sparks writes:
"Those..extreme drouths Of wester
Texas are the result Of chemical az
|, ton Of certain mineral substances il
tho earth, causing a constant curren
, Of sulphuric OF sulphurous acid gas
escape through the soil aud iuto tn
air, sufficient to completely drive ava
all ordinary cloud formation aud I
keep the atmosphere completely dr.,
All Of the rainfall in that country
attended with a storm Of wind suf
cient to displace tho escaping body {
gas and allow precipitation, whic
usually lasts only for a short time. n
slow and continued rains are commol
y No cloud formation above the visib
horison brings rain. No dews al
seen, only In wet times, aud at sue
times are extremely heavy, whic