| Show THE MATTER matten our planet would seem to be passing through an extraordinary state of disturbance abroad the tiie winter climate is very much bilto liko our own the london ike Ide telegraph grapa graph bays says the first day of 1877 will long be mem 1 orabie in england for a gale surpassing in its violence ajay any tempest that has visited the E erl eil eri igli i gli I 1 busts ousts since the hurri burgi hurricane cane of 1703 anen aien the he old Eddy eddystone storie lighthouse was as washed away both lands seem to be passing through a sort of zone of whirlwind hurricane and cyclone if we look back over the tho records at past centuries we shall shail nind find that about once in every hundred years the he whole surface of the world is swept by gales and tempests As reg regards ards the damage e caused aused in L lambeth am the tile ex extraordinary tra or d inary thing is that it should be possible for fer mete to predict as they did with the greatest accuracy the pe 1 currence of an inundation such as a that which swept the southern banks of the thames last month yet no precautions were taken to Q guard against the emergency E ex ET T |
