Show tue THE RAIN AND ITS CAUSE during the wars of napoleon the attention of the frencha aarem academy Y of sciences endes was call edff ed to the fact that a storm of rain aiu or snow invariably bly followed a battle always in 11 proportion to the 06 magnitude of the conflict I 1 especially if there ther ewas was heavy cannonading canno I 1 this was particularly ticul arly the case in the russian campaigns pai ns w which were followed by such stich snow storms as never before were witnessed in the south of europe some of the savaii Ts is declared that rapid discharges of artillery and inces sant volleys of musketry produced con I 1 in hinline inline the air and drove the clouds out of then course while others went so go far as tib th adopt the the theory ory sine since e advocated by prof espy that the imi mense smoke of battle was in itself sufficient to prod u carai n There were I 1 sceptic skeptics sceptics es ito waver and abid when the war closed it remained a mooted points point 1 those ajio remember the rains which followed the seven days fight before richmond as well as chose which followed all the other prominent battles 0 on n will at once acknowledge the ole theory to bo be correct that tl battles disturb the elements elemen tsin jn the in t of singular figular manner if any evi dence were wanting we need jonly to re refer f to i 0 the rains at intervals and the heavy clouds cr emulous in one d diorec ir ec tion tio nand ad nimbus in another floating to all points of the cow compass pass as if g pv erpel by anything else a than a regular of oc air it is thus conclusive with ithe the evidence so plainly before us that wars bring hrib rain in surn summer mer and snow storms in wintter 1 to what extent this may hold good we are unable to conjecture but there is no reason why the present rains rains may not extend ovay r half the globa sig since co it is irn gnip paulbla to seea see i cleir clear gleam i upon in a any ny direction ra rapid roid discharges harjes of artillery I 1 larin y nd d musketry blend in aitio tb one con 1 otty roar and an d ind instances instance tance s are afe ii lipon record where they were ere ife ard at a dis tance of bf forty miles if sou ii nd alone ddn travel so far one dan can form gonie some idea how barthe far the force whick which produces ta aks iq n f inke e 2 4 air grm may a y tl travel ayel before it exhausts it itself it is usual to have hake showers in the middle of 0 may but lony contin confine I 1 aed rains are allt adt the ordinary of events at this season of 4 tile life year the subject is i one worthy the loil of meteorologists as well as who take AV ny in Loret in uie the of Q r Z jj aa s 0 g AI |