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Show trW'i and CraMbHntv. Ni ither dikes nor r n rvoint ouUI prevent tbe ravages of sud Jen It snU, and no naval architect haa thus far levlsea a plan for the construction of a comil b iy stomvpr. of tdilfu but t xpetleucc has at least taught u to avoid pt-rila winch we cannot re-M. re-M. Tlie meUnmkigical oiervalo-ries oiervalo-ries of sixteen different nations have been very busy in the course of the last fifty years, and if tlie direction of a storm could lie predicted a stic-cWully stic-cWully a it imminence, lilsa-lroiuttou.is lilsa-lroiuttou.is and iiurrsranti wou'il rarely come uncxivt-ted. A (talc originat.ng in Uh- ldaius oi Westirn Kansas ami, keep ing a straight eastwarJ ct-uise as far as St. IsjuK Missouri, may suJden-ly suJden-ly turn aiil..att 0-1 striking the Valley ol thcMississi,H, aiai thu save Ubki and I't iinsi iiauia from ihi" preilirtt-i vt-ilatlou. Italn--ka.us Ih .t hae liK-!iar,nl Uh lr Uirrtnbi all akiu: U.e Uulf t'oa-4 from Tami-ieo loNiiri irlcana ami inirriicd the plains jf Atauama, may remsr their showers lo the ta-'-!e lanJ- of Northern tieorgia an i disaolTc away into fleecy n ks of vapor where their moisture wax pt r-haiamnstcorety r-haiamnstcorety needed in a more coudtBsed form. The nxst as AVitI ludk-atlotui of rain may prove delusive in ttikisui.:-im-r; still, Uh- ol s nations of nunj years have B-rihtattii the a.t o" wi-Mherprttlic:itii l iiuite a nu-nt t-r . f leli raM r-.. 1 le t la-nl ml.s. Tiiu-'s i i l-tve iiiifound I j have l(B:aJ o I low fnim rrgionauf high hi it g'-o'i- of V ia rointtitral jfnre, r.tst t-. U" ic enleiilya H-- air! f .lowed I -y a drj-res-H,n if le.n; r-tun. North of :!:c Mi:-1 tlcurvthof eyi-Wms t :rn fiui right b k-ft; on the :.:inrn iembtlierc from Utt !- i-iit, and jften set in to ptud ttieir fury iu the fuot-itile fuot-itile of a higb ruouiilaiii-rauge. but manage to nsunit- tlreir work o f uevastatibu on tin- j-lains biyoini. fouidertnrrenbi liae a tertdtney to delay, rather than ut-utntliz , far-tr-tveled gak-s, ami only a fiw moutha ago four steimers and a multiluue of iaJllng-vi sseb wcrt-saved wcrt-saved by tbecttletal uiHcorologi-t of Siiigatiort". wlio keit his storm-sign ais hoisteU in s-ite of all teinwi ury aj-iaraiK-csof tlearing sk'o, till on tin-third day tbe retarded storm 1M with a fury sorely rued by all vi t-I Uiat liad dbngankil the edicl!oti. Dr.Felix UO-wald, in J'raut JxtOe't lijm'ar JUu-lhlg fur .lffut. |