Show atmospheric conditions we are now approaching the winning wincing up periods of the great no vember storms all round the earth great and destructive storms hurricanes and blizzards have occurred and in them venus venue has again proved the power of her equinoctial electric currents in im bringing fierce storms the moon has again demonstrated its electric power when crossing the earthy earths equator and now it is ia Merc time to again tell what it can do in disturbing the planetary family by crossing the suns equator which occurred on the the rhe effect was felt to some extent in the last storm but its principal effect is felt in the evening up process after it has disturbed the electric equilibrium by crossing the suns equator its effects are seen principally in the increase of rains snows sleets and foggy murky weather THE NEXT STORM WAVE VAVE will be due to leave the pacific coast about the cross the great valley from to and reach the atlantic coast about the it will become a furious storm about the when it will be on the middle of the north atlantic and at the same time another approaching storm will be very severe on the pacific coast a third one will be in central asia and a fourth in central europe our Oura storm will pass through the southern states causing cold weather north of the storm and warm weather south of it A very considerable amount of snow and rtin min may be expected arm this storm wave I 1 hope hop that readers of my letters letter will study the laws of storms which they will find in my letters for wi without th this much of the benefits to be derived from my forecastle fore caste will be lost remember that all storm waves are whirlwinds whirl winds turning from right by way of the front to the left the center of the storm rises and the wind blows toward it A YEAR OF disastrous STORMS I 1 believe that 1892 will be a year of the most dia disastrous storms storma experienced perien Perlen ced in recent times I 1 do not know of a time in the past when the disturbing forces were so great is as they promise to be in 1892 vom prom 1880 to 1884 the disturbing elements were quite active on account of uranus being at its equinoctial where the earth is in march but in 1892 two of the great dat planets in the solar system will paw pass their equinoctials t about the sime same time in january 1892 jupiter will be at his equinoctial andallo and also at perihelion or about miles nearer the arth tarth t than when he passed his equinoctial in 1886 the equator of jupiter wilt will be toward the sun and his great greatest electrical force will be felt throughout the earths orbit for six months before and after that date in august 1892 saturn will pass its equinoctial where the e earth par th is in march and its full electrical electric af force will be felt by the sun and earth for twelve months before and after that date at that time the edge of saturna Sa turns rings will with saturna Sa turns fi quator and cannot then be seen axce except t through these powerful telescopes these two great planets jupiter L is ie 1800 1300 times larger than the earth while Sa saturn turnis is nearly as large will be e on opposite aidee of the sun with their equators toward the sun and toward each other the electricity that is thrown off over the equator of an electro dy namo machine will knock over small objects object sa a hundred feet away and from that one may imagine what a powerful influence our earth will encounter when it comes between the equator of two such electro dynamos as jupiter and saturn which revolve on their axes so rapidly as to cause their equators to move inove thousands of times more rapidly than do the equators of our most powerful electro dynamos WEATHER AND SCIENCE NOTES in a letter from a friend in new york city it to is suggested that electricity is Julen sided vibration given an adequate conductor there is no low loss or expenditure in transit for it is not m itter not a fluid but motion this inconceivably intense vibratory motion produces effects so unique as to be confounded with cause in one condition it is called heat but heat is only an effect lof the propulsion of this inte intense sise vibration against the air producing friction of its atoms hence the arc light and the forked lightning Maguet magnetism ism is only another effect produced by the proximity of the two opposite vibratory motions vibrations can have only two general motions hence the in tenser notion motion ot the two is called the positive and draws the negative to itself heat light life magnetism chemical affinities force gravitation etc are all effects of this vibratory motion called electricity which is the infinite universal cause this theory of electricity is similar but not the same as that to which I 1 hold the scientific world fail to find a beginning for creation and refuse to recognize mure more than three forms of matter I 1 believe that there are at least five forms of matter beginning at either of outer space condensations ol of which constitute electricity which condenses to form the gases liquids and solids in proof of this all matter is convertible into electricity to generate electricity we decompose zinc which goes out through the copper wire As the zinc goes back into electricity it must continue to be matter and it is not unreasonable to believe that the zinc was or originally anally composed of electricity creation Trea creation tion is now in progress as muck much as it ever was condensations of electricity from the atom and build it into a molecule meteor comet moon planet and sun their only difference being in their size solidity avd ard their electric forces all these bodies may grow to be sure W T FOSTER |