| Show TO rH fir ci 4 LOM ill 4 HUH it mi liver aro arc nun A ery cry interesting paper in ili regard to the possibility of predicting cyclones LC IOnes hurricanes and othor atmospheric d a inces was read at the li t ine meeting eting of the brench academy if SLIe says the new york herald I 1 he unit liness linens of such buch a discus lon la Is there liae hae ben bein clones in averal tv eral plates during lilt last lahl harhut ear but hut espic ehli c tally in parts where they did much damage since then many I 1 rench davai havai vat te have been laboring hard haid to fild some boirie method bs of which such atmospheric disturbances can lt bc acal accia bately foretold we ve shudder waln we hear of whole towns being feln swept awa away but a ab it a rule the dlf isler mccu far away from our own hornet homes and e soon goon forget arget the miseries 0 the h and hoi homeless neless victims not until ae e are face to face with ih the ai dinger nger do we real ize ze its power so the french hardly renell tile force borle 0 of f a callone until they diw ont oni playing curious pranks prank sin tn the of paris now to accurately oriell fortell tile the tine time and places in which cyclones will ill inin iffet themselves Is clearly not sin an aisy matter sometimes it Is to make predictions using for the pur por pose poc such data as the 0 of pro sure registered by bv the llie the lite variations of dempf hown blown by the thermometer the indications of the hygrometer the electrical condition of the atino atmosphere sphere and tilt the anable fact that there tire ore certain fixed periods it at W which aich cyclones may bt bf appear but even with such d ita it Is li cally impossible to imke predict ms n with unerring ac accuracy curac As i I 1 renah rebii h scientist says sayi this branch of Is faill in its infancy and the results by means of meteorological instrument Ins trumen t are often cither wrong incomplete or contradictor contradictory 3 11 ahe difficulty 0 of Is 18 furthermore ll 11 tile the fica that cyclones are lie he result f enny different causes cause whereas their effect are invariably the rame gaine if there were w er only cause the prophets task N would b br 0 much inch easier caller A novel prophetic method Is ig used by ch W anger dirleton dir Letor ot of observe tory nt at prague accord ig to illin him no other instrument except the t dehoe Is for such work and lie claim tint by it a jil olger atlon of the stirs not lot only can c cyclones bl fore told but also earthquakes anil and lc eruptions ilia its prophetic od Is base I 1 on dis scientific principles lich hi his noticed that atmospheric and terre u I 1 i tur turhan bances ces coincide with periods peric ids of i holar air activity that Is to sa ha with I 1 ht appear ance of circus ir concentric spots hnoth on the suit suii B s fir str face hitherto tilt haac lont 11 I 1 these spots as a of bome disturb ince in the sun lief ahe theory now Is that when such d dis 11 ate are seen almo patric tic i r st I 1 s mic twi ini hi bi expect edon ed on our planet shooting stirs and meteorites which enter our ilmo sphere anti and are tile the point of departure of electric troubles are also albo said to be forerun forero 11 ners of or examine the sun n is nr 7 agers advice and be assured red that mien I 1 11 you notice cyc lonial spots on oil its e there Is good cause ause for terror ahl rh phase of solar activity recurs periodically e 1 er io years and at benger insists thit t our earth 1 li in ili consequence tit much tich troubled ltd Ld ever test ten years ears lie la Is faid to hive liev e predicted the c cyclone clone of july jill 2 27 alyc basing hit bin prediction on the fid that july 27 1896 was as a n very storm mornay th di and that on oil both those dates sun run spots were 4 leurey sef ticen n I 1 ills eminent prague r h v is a I 1 rhal h al lit in the person of a well ano known ti botanist of N it ant As thi firmer looks to tile the for so eo the thir our thi r looks to hothir firth rile blaik and petals of the lite shrub knon t I 1 botin ii ihas ts ns as arbus arbar I 1 no billi ir art his 1118 iilda A in dej ded tills shrub appt iri to li bt fit sen sell s likeness we ire told Is s arl at tivit nn acly by the alo of it its leavet leaven branch branches bran chis and baem storms it t ethl likes abid aad other oilier heric alto in be fort told much giorl rt ri ddll v antl ac it rarely than tile they cin h i the title life of tile the niofito il i indents men Is I 1 afta r all ait as 11 I 1 rench aclei tit list points on out t istre is little reil h bi tweet tween HUM two thol t f arf predictions 11 anger and tin file aih trian boti work in v i 1 but they same 1 thi ciple |
