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Show Onitlal Italn. Our Men la tha aocialliita, who bellero the government ran and ought to do eicrythlnn for overybody, wllllnqnlto in tymnathy with tho ret of eijcrtincntt nowioaklnit bynckntlflo oiprrU to n. iTtaln it it I jmeilblo to praluco rain In paying n,uantltlM by artificial mean. Wranger thin? than that have already been accomplUhed by ectenco It aeemt tli.1t a balloon enthnilait, Profrwur Carl Myert, claim toboablo to make It rain at bit own iwretwlll by meant of tho ti loelou of go con-lined con-lined In balloont, tho balloon tint boln,r (nt up to an altitude where they can go off an 1 prodnco a Iremendotu ruction I among tho cloud. It the tlectrio cur ' rent I laiiwl through n lnltturo cow litlngof two jurU of hydrogen go to one of oiygen a great exi lolon will follow, fol-low, an 1 tho two gao will combine and form wafer. It It not thl water, how cter, the profewor depend on for the rain, but on the inoliture that may bo contained in tho cloud In the vicinity of the exploalon. The jnwerfnl oxplo-alon oxplo-alon will hako tha nlr current, dliturb the equilibrium of thing up there, bunt the cloud an 1 canta rain to fall in torrents. The theory ircmt tlmple enough and Inwl on ouml cientillo principle, but will It uorU That tho United Slate, government expect to aaccrtnln through l"rofeaor ilyer' experlmonU. A Sne copper wire will bo nltothcd to tho balloon bal-loon when It rurcn la, and through thl thoilectrla current will pan. Touto expente it Uexpectod that the experimental experi-mental balloon will bo cotutructed of ilk pnlp from worn out bank notes, |