| Show TH riiHiiMir nriiiM wnapnl way n Innipiii tirnnn nif r Are Mnn < Mhl u A very Interaxtlnj J paper In regaid to slim poatlbllHy n 1 predletluK cyclones hurricanes and olhr atmotpherlc d t urbance was read at the latt meeting 01 I the French Academy if Sclrncet says Ihe New York Herald The time lint ol inch a dltcuttlon It I evident There hate been cyclone In several places I during the last year but etpec Idly In Iarlt where hey did much inner Since then many Trench save 111 have been laboring haul to find some method by meant of which inch Imotpherlc dltturbancet can br acct alely oretotd We shudder when we hear ol whole towna being swept away hut II a rule the dltatler occur far away from our own hornet and we non target the mltrrlet ol the haplrt nd hnmelett victim Not unlll or arc far to lace with the danger do we meal 1 Ian Ita power So the frenrhliardlr 1 rullirlbe forte I aertlnn unlll Ratty ttw one plavlng urom prank In the streets nl Parts Now tn iccuratily iirtell the time mod plate In which eielonrt will man hest Ihennelvet It clearly not an mar matter Sometlntrn It 1 It pottlble to lake prnllctlons ntlng lor the par HHC tiich data a he varltlnn + ol pre lie reglttereil hv the barometer the arlitloninl temperature shown by thaw icrmonirtrr the Indication ol the irgromeler the electrical condition ol slur atmnphtre and the tiniuntlnnihlr art Chat there are certain fixed perlodt AI which cyclone may be expected lop lo-p a tin wren wish tuch data It It I practl ally lniH ilble to make prediction with unerring accuracy As x > French Ientht UII Thus branch ol metorolgr Is I tIIll In Its Infancy and Die retails ohlalncd br mean ot meteorological Inttrunleni 4 are nllen either wrong Incomplete or contradictory The illfTlciilty ol making predictions I t furthermore enhance hv ihr fact tht cyclone are he result Itl many Iflcrent cause whereat their effect arc Invariably lame II them were only caute the plophrtt tails would be musts mailer A novel 1 prophetic method It I tamed 1 bv Ch W Pence director ol the ohttrva tory at fragile According lo him no other Instrument except the heirs ore In I irerttry lor such work and he claim that by a judlelnui oh > rrvatlnn of he slats 1 not only can cyclone br lorr t j old but alto earthquake and 1 vulcanic pliant Hit prophetic method In I btrl < n rll llncttclentlncprlnclplei Ilr hnaenlcd a thai almotpherlc and lerrrtrUI jO + lurbancca cplnclilitlih prNndva tar activity that It tatty wfifTihe appear nee of circular concentric tpoli on the suns surface Hitherto melcorologltli hive coniM theme roll it limply i minlfeilatlonol ionic dliturbance In the sun Iliell The theory now li that when much tolir dlt urbancet are teen atmotpherlc or tell mtc disturbances may surely be expected expect-ed on our planet Shooting nan and nelcnrllri which enter our almoiphetc and are the point ol departure nl elcc Inc trouble are also laid to be forerunner forerun-ner ol cyclone or earthquake Examine the sun then It M Zengera adtke and be attured that when you notice cyclonlal spots onII lurface there It I good cause for terror The phase nl tolar activity recur periodically every 10 years and M Zcnger Inttili that our earth is I In contequence much troubled every leu year lie It I laid to have predicted the cyclone ol July 171896 basing hit prediction on the fact that July 27 1896 was a very tlnrmy day and that on both those dales sun spots ere clearly teen rusts eminent Prague astronomer hat a rival In the person ol a wellknown f liotanltt ol Vienna As the former look to the sky Ir Inspiration Iht her look to Mother Earth The stalk and petals ol the thrub known to boon lot as Arbul precatorlou Inoblll are his guide A faultiest baroiieter Indeed In-deed thl shrub appear lo be hi ten illlvencn we ire told Is I to great that merely by he movement ril Its leave branches and item storms earthquakes and other itmoiphcrlc occurrence can be foretold much more readily and acu rately than they can by the ate ol the mot delicate meteorological Initru ntrnU Afterallass French iclcnlltt point out there le I little real difference between be-tween theo two method ol making prediction M Zcnger and the Au I Irlan botanist work In different ways but they use the tame principle |
