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Show ATMOSPHERIC C0.ND1TI0XS. IJ,,XIw,!ft,,,,a4e", of D"" wtf. M8 D0 nPPaning the wlnuing up perfodj of t member storm. All round the earth great and destructive storms, hurricanes and Wizards have occurred oc-curred and In them Venus has "gain proved tho power of her tquinoctlal electric currents la bringing fierce stormsjthe moon has again demonstrated its electric lower when crossing the earth quator, and now It is Mercury's time to again tellwhal it can do in disturbing tho planetary family by crossing the sun's equator, which occurred on the 15th. The effect was felt to some extent, in the last storm, but its principal eflect is felt In the evening up process after It has disturbed tho electric equilibrium equilibri-um by crossing the sun's equator ItsellecU are seen principally In tbe increase of rains, snows, sleets and fogy, murky weather. THE NEXT STORM WAVE will be due to leave tho Pacific toast about the I6th, cross the great valley val-ley from 17th to 19th and reach the Atlantic coast about the 20lh. It will become a furious -storm about thu 22nd wbeu it will be on the middle of tho north Atlantic and at the same time another approaching storm "will bo very severe on the Pacific coast; a third one will be In central Asia and a fourth in central Europe. Ourstorm will pass through tbe Southern States causing cold weather north of tho storm and warm weather south of it. A very considerable amount of enow and rain mar be expected from this storm wave. m , , I hope that readers of my letters will study thu laws of storms which they will find In my letters for without with-out this much of the benefits to lie derived rwm my forecasts, will bf lost. Kememtier tht all storm naves are whirlwinds, turning from right by way of the front to the left; the center of the storm ri-es and the wiud blows toward it. A YEAR OF DISASTOOUS STORMS. I believe that 1S92 will be a year of tbe most dljastrous storm) experienced ex-perienced in recent times. I do not know of a time ill the past when tbe disturbing forces were so great as thev promise to be in 1S92. From 1SS0 to 1SS4 tbo disturbing elements ele-ments were quite active on account of Uronus being at its equiuoctial, where tbe earth la lu Marcii, but in 1592 two of the i;reati-st planets In the solar system will ass their equinoctials about tho same time. In January 1S02 Jupiter will ba at hNequinxtialatid also at perihelion, or, about 42.000,000 miles nearer the varth than when hepassed his equinoctial equi-noctial in 1SSG. The equator of Jupiter will be toward the sun and his greatest elee'rical force will be felt throughout the earth's orbit for six months before aud after that date. In August 1S92 Saturn will (ass its equiuoctial, where the earth is In March, and its full electrical force will bo felt by tbe sun and earth for tweive months liefore and after that date. At that time the edge of Saturn's rings will be toward the eattti the ring coincide co-incide with Saturn's tquator and canu tthnnboseen except tbroaah noorerfu! telescopes. Thete two great planets luplter is IRK) times Lrger than tho earth, while Saturn is nearly as large will be on opposite sides of thu sun, with their equators toward the sun and toward each other. The electricity electric-ity that is thrown ofT over the equator of an clectro-dy-nani'i machine will knock ovtT small oblectsa hundred feet away, and rrom that one may imagine u hat a powerful Influeuee our earth will encounter when It comes Le-tneeu Le-tneeu the equator or two such -Wtm-ilynnnv'fi as Jupiter and Saturn, which revolve on their axes no rapidly as to cause their t-qu itirs to move thousands or times more rapidly than do thu equators or our most powerful electro-dynamos. WEATHER ASD BCIESCE XOTES. Iu a letter from a friend In New York City It Is suggested that: "Electricity is Intensified vibration. Given an adequate conductor there-Is there-Is no loss or expenditure In transit, for it is not milter, nota ll-il.I , but nntw. This 'iiconcelvably intense vibratory motion produ es effects so U iique as to be onfounded with C4ue. In on-) condiilou it is called heat, but heat is only an effect of the projulsion of this Intense vibration vibra-tion agaln't tbe air, producing produc-ing friction of its atom', hence the arc light and the forked lightning. Magnetism is only another effect, produced by the proximity of the two opposite vibratory motions. Vibrations can havo only twit general motions, hence the Intenser motion ot the two Is called the positive posi-tive and draws the negative to itself. it-self. Heat light, life, magnetism, chemical affinities, force, gravitation, gravita-tion, etc, ate all effects of this vibratory motion called electricity, which is tbe infinite, nniversal Call8!'." This theory of electricity Is similar simi-lar but not the same as that to which I hold. The scientific world rail b. find a beginning for creation and lefuse to recognize mure than three forms of matter. I believo that there are at least five forms of matter beginning at either of outer space. condenations ot which constitute electricity whicli coudenses to form the gases, liquids and solids. In proof or this, all matter Is convertible con-vertible iuto electricity. To generate electricity wo decompose de-compose zinc which goes out threugh the copper wire. As the zinc goes back into electricity it must continue to be matter and it is not unreas inabie to believe that the zinc was originally composed or electricity- Creation Is now In progress as mucV as it ever was Condensations or electricity from the atom and bullJ, It into a molecule, mole-cule, meteor, comet, moon, planet, and sun, their only difference being in their size, solidity and their electric elec-tric forces. AH tbeso bodies may grow to be sure. b W.T. Foster. |