Iron County Register

There is a big group of spots coming into sight around the edge of the sun. Their appearance is very formidable. The bright surface of the solar globe seems to have been torn and broken through in a wonderful manner. All around the black spots the glowing surface is heaped up into vast mountainous elevations that shine much brighter than the surrounding parts of the sun. It needs but a glance to see that a tremendous convulsion is occurring there. Enormous masses of vaporized matter, including metals turned into clouds by heat, are being hurled tens of thousands of miles high. In a few days the rotation of the sun will have brought this disturbed region near the centre of the disk. It will be worth watching, for daily and hourly marvelous changes will take place there, the explosions may become weaker, and the spots gradually disappear, or there may be a far greater outburst that will shatter the brilliant shell of the sun over millions of square miles.

If, in the meantime, great storms and tornadoes occur on the earth, they will no doubt be ascribed to the influence of this disturbance on the sun, but nobody should jump to the conclusion that the solar explosions really do produce storms. If it can be proved that electricity is an important element in the generation of tornadoes, then the storm-producing influence of sun spots will probably be admitted by many men of science who doubt it at present, for the earth always responds with a magnetic thrill to the convulsions that shake its mighty ruler in the sky.—N. Y. Sun.