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Show Egypt Gets More Rain Now. Rain fell In torrents In Alexandria, Egypt, during tho rejoicings ovor tho accession of tho now sultan. Somo fifty years ago tho statement would havo seemed ridiculous; but of recent years tho climatic charactor ot Egypt has lost Its consistency, and now wo hnvo rain In places whero nono was known beforo, and moro rain whero thero was very llttlo, or only tho gen-tlo gen-tlo dow. Tho English nro bolloved to bo responsible re-sponsible for tho rain with their now channels for spreading over tho land tho waters ot tho Nllo. Cairo has only two Inches In tho year, whllo 500 miles up tho Nllo thero Is practically nono at all. Just as tho plantation ot trees In a desert will bring rain, so Is Egypt now a molster plnco because of tho extension ot cultivated lands. But It Is not likely that all our western civilization civ-ilization will ovor destroy tho wonderful won-derful drjncBs of Egyptian air with which tho constitutions ot invalffla nnd pyramids agree. |