El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-01-31
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The moon, which was a dead body.
shons with reflected light It went
from quarter to full moon regularly.
There was nothing in its phases ex-
cept gradations Of light When there
was the same new moon in Ottawa,
Winnipeg. Cape Of Good Hope and
London Il would take more than the
yank Of a crank TO change the
weather all over the earth
The greatest weather fakir we
have today is Foster" declared the
speaker with warmth, while the audi
ence clapped and laughed Foster is
dead. His predictions continue like
the running brook The coin flows
in from the gullibls public because
Ny people love TO have II So. Eos
ter predicted a warm wave last week.
but the thermometer must have got
frozen at White River, while IL was IS
degrees below there hope he never
predicts a cold wave
To Dry Up London.
Another 1allacy was that the firing
OF cannon produced rain. The war
gave the quietus TO that belief. said
DT. KlotZ. Not drop OF rain OF fog
could be formed, he said. without a
nucleus around which to gather. Re
move the dust OF London and the me-
tropolis would be the same as Kent
county
Associated vita rain Is the rainbow.
When a childei is told that there is
a pot OF gold at the end Of the rain
bow" said the speaker, 1T Is a pref
" safe statement A rainbow is q
color sensation. Each one sees his
own rainbow. There is no such thing
as color as an entity. The eye Is
hit so many times a second with sen
sations. A bow depends on the posi-
tion Of the sun AS the sun goes up
the bow goes down. and vice versa
The prismattc colors OF the bow give
colors OF white, which strike giobules
OF water and are broken up One
drop gives red, another green: the in
side OF the bow Is violet the outside
is red"
Discovery of HeIium.
IN the most fascinating way Dr.
Klotz showed how the dirigible was
Intimately associated with the rain
bow. Through the discovery Of he'll
ium by astronomers the science Of
aviation as dependent on dirigibles
was effected. The war gave an i'm
petus TO the discovery OF heiium,
which was found in sufficient guam
titles to float dirigibles- Heliun is
light and II is not iuflammable.
Questioned as to the Individuality
OF the moon, DR.. KlOtz said that no
atmosphere could be detected there.
A few minute changes had been no
ticed. but the atmosphere was so at
tenuated there that habitRtiOn was in
possible.
The Planets for February.
Mercury viii be too near the sun
to be seen this month
Venus Is still in the morning sky.
rising about two hours before the
sun. II is low in the southeast
Mars Is in Virgo, rising at mid
night on the lst at II p m on the
18Th and at 10 p. m on the 2sth-
Jupiter IS a few degrees west OF
Regulus and has retrOgrade motion
(westwardl OF about three degrees
during the month II comes into view
in the eastern sky Immediately after
sunset throughout the month and re-
mains in view all night Ii can read
lily be distinguished from the sur
rounding stars as II is larger and more
brilliant than any other in -he east
aTn sky, as can be seen even by COM
1artson with Sirius, the most brill
iant OF the fixed stars, which rises
bout the same time but which lies
in the southeast It viii be In op-
position 10 the sun on February 8.
Saturn viii rise at $3.50 p. m. on the
lst. at I.3O p m on the 18th and at
$50 p. m on the 29th- 1t viii be
IN opposition TO the sun on the 28th-
It's motion is retrograde this month
about one and a half degrees west
ward. It is southeast Of Regulus-
Uranus viii be in conjunction with
the sun on February p, and conse-
quently viii not be visible this month
Neptune is west Of Jupiter in Can
GER as is shown on the evening sky
map.
Visible OCCUPATIONS OF AIEoI.
The following table gives the visi-
Bile minimum Of the oCculations OF
the variable star. Algol for the sea
son OF 1920. The time given is the
middle Of the OccultatiOns which be-
gins five hours earlier and lasts five
hours, later than the hours indicated
The ephemeris has been corrected by
the accumulated acceleration OF the
stars former period Of revolution.
which now brings the minima one
hour earlier than the standard tables.
The time given in Rocky mountain
time. Algol Is visible evenings in
the northeast in the fall. overhead
in the winter, and in the northwest
in March and April.
January 20 ......... $40 D. m.
January % ......... $500 D. m.
February .......11;05 a. m
February 9 ......... 1855 p. m
February u ....... 4:45 p. m
February % ...s.... 9:35 D. m
March .....--. $50 p m
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