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could have said from our point of sight. I immediately drove to the spot, and 
it appeared that not a drop of rain had fallen in that track. The whirl had been 
sufificient to overturn a few stacks of grain and hay, and a man was thrown about 
with his team in the road. I think, if it had struck a body of water, I should be 
slow to believe that it lifted any solid column of water into the air one hundred 
feet. It would have made a grand scattering of the water, and a great deal of it 
would have been thrown up into the air. I believe that a good deal of that which 
is commonly ascribed to columns of water rising up, and pouring down the sides 
in cataracts, is optical illusion. I should be slow to take the testimony of a 
person seeing them, unless he had his mind disabused of the common notions 
about these waterspouts. So far as their electrical origin is concerned, I quite 
agree with Professor Nipher that it is not by any means proven that electricity 
has anything to do with them, except that it is a necessary adjunct, of course, to 
all such disturbances. — Science. 
REPORT FROM OBSERVATIONS TAKEN AT CENTRAL STATION, 
WASHBURN COLLEGE, TOPEKA, KANSAS. 
BY PROF. J. T. LOVEWELL, DIRECTOR. 
Temperature of the Air, 
MiN. AND Max. Averages. 
Min 
Max 
Min. and Max .... 
Range 
Tri-Daily Observations. 
7 a. m 
2 p. m , . 
9 P- m 
Mean 
Relative Humidity, 
7 a. m 
2 p. m 
9 p. m. . . . ... 
Mean 
Pressure as Observed. 
7 a. m 
2 p. m 
9 P- m 
Mean 
Miles per Hour of Wind. 
7 a. m 
2 p. m 
9 p. m 
Total miles 
Clouding by Tenths. 
7 a. m 
2 p. m. . . 
9 P- m 
Rain. 
Inches 
Aug, 20th 
to 30th. 
644 
84,8 
66.9 
70,7 
.91 
.44 
.81 
.71 
29-15 
29.12 
29.11 
29.13 
8.2 
12.2 
II. O 
1282 
15 
I.O 
0.6 
.00 
Sept. 1st 
to loth. 
60.95 
79-50 
64.00 
68.15 
-85 
•51 
.78 
.72 
29.217 
29.077 
29.038 
29 177 
2785 
4-7 
3-7 
2.4 
Sept. loth 
to 20th. 
58 60 
81.00 
63.00 
66.40 
•93 
.60 
.84 
.86 
29.217 
29.042 
29.059 
29.106 
2313 
5.9 
4.0 
4.8 
-55 
Mean. 
5S-0 
69.8 
58.7 
60.3 
.87 
.60 
,84 
•77 
29.01 
29.98 
29-97 
29.99 
6380 
•55 
