Wiggins' Storm
The Melbourne "Age" reports that Mr. Ellery, Government Astronomer of Victoria, has forwarded to tho Chief Secretary a supplementary memorandum in reference to Dr. Wiggins's weather prediction…
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Magnetic Storms
It has been calculated (says a 'Frisco paper) that if the sun were made of the hardest steel and thoroughly magnetised, the distance between it and the earth is so great that it could not affect our magnets. The…
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LONDON, March 8.—The Mississippi, which was reported to be rising so fast as to give cause for alarm, has now overflowed its banks, and serious floods have resulted along its entire valley…
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The-Mississippi, which was reported to be rising so fast as to give cause for alarm, has now overllowed its banks, and serious floods have resulted along its entire valley…
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The injuries during the heavy gale at Fiji on February 24 are thus written of by the "Fiji Argus":—The injuries sustained by property ashore are generally of a trivial character. Starting from the…
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M. SPRING recently took exception before the Belgian Academy to the theory that the forming thunder-cloud acquires electricity from the air and through condensation, producing lightning and thunder when it…
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THE weather last Friday was fine. The wing blew strong from the north-east. About 8 o'clock in the evening vivid lightning and dense cloud masses were noticed to the…
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LONDON, March 11.—The disastrous floods, by which a large portion of the United States has been inundated, are subsiding…
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The serious floods which have of late devastated a large extent of country in the United States, are now subsiding…
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LONDON, March 8.—The Mississippi, which was reported to be rising so fast as to give cause for alarm, has now overflowed its banks, and serious floods have resulted along its entire valley…
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There has been a great flood in the Paroo. The river on this side of Hungerford overflowed its banks, and is now many miles wide. The mail due here on Tuesday only arrived late last night, owing to its detention by…
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LONDON, March 20.—The Lord Mayor has opened a fund for the relief of the inhabitants of the Western Islands of Scotland, which were recently visited by severe gales, causing much…
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The Lord Mayor has opened a fund for the relief of the inhabitants of the Western Islands of Scotland, which were recently visited by severe gales, causing much…
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LONDON, March 20.—The Lord mayor has opened a fund for the relief of the inhabitants of the Western Islands of Scotland, which were recently visited by severe gales, causing much…
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1. The conjunction of the moon with the tail end of the dog star was not quite what, w,as expected In fact the dog star funked its obligations…
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LONDON, March 11.—The disastrous floods, by which, A large portion of the United States has been inundated, are subsiding…
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Gales and heavy rainfall have been productive of serious damage all over the country. Shipping casualties have been numerous, and accompanied, in many instances, with loss of life. Great floods, also, involving several fatalities…
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The American telegrams contain further particulars, of the destructive floods which have taken place in the Western States. In Cleveland the floods are said to be the most serious which have occurred during the last…
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The steamer Zealandia, which arrived in Fort Jackson yesterday, brings American files to March 10. The Zealandia thus left on the day that Professor Stone Wiggins had predicted a…
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HALIFAX, March 10. -- Shortly after noon the breeze shifted to the south-east quarter and gradually grew in force. A few minutes after the storm signal was up at Citadel Station and people…
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