Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1891 — The Rainmakers. [ARTICLE]

The Rainmakers.

Rainmakers are common nowadays, but Ohio comes to the front as usual with a new fad. Some enterprising editors got together at Columbus and organized a campaign thunder foundry.— Toledo Commercial. From the amount of damage reported through excessive rainfalls it is gratifying to be informed that the experiments for artificial y causing a down-pour are not satisfactory. It is well to have sufficient moisture, but these floods are tv be dreaded.— Toledo Bee. That man with the rain-producer down in Texas, when he tries to make a litlje local shower, creates a storm which covers 1,000 s quare miles. He has evidently discovered no improvement on the old plan of sending rain upon the just and unjust— Boston Globe. The rainmakers are wanted in eastern parts, in Connecticut in Westchester County and elsewhere where the reservoirs and streams are low. This is a reasonable re nest If rain can be made the folk < who make ft should be willing to test th ir systems upon places where success w.ll mean an immediate good.— Rome Sentinel. General Dyrenfortii contiaues to explode dynamite and gunpowder in the upper air of Texas, and his explosions continue to be followed by rain. Still the Texans refuse to take much stock in Dyrenforth, but rather put their faith in an all-wise and overruling Providence, which sendeth rain in due season upon the just and .upon the unjust, without the assistance of explosives.— Boston Herald. General Dyrenforth having evolved a thousand miles of rain with the aid of rackarock and oxy' hydrogen might now turn his attention to Rainmaker Me.bourns and enlist him for further experiments. Mr. Melbourne has been doing meteorological “stunts” in a little backyard cubbyhole with a material that might lx* termed “raekamouth," and claims all the rain that has lately fallen around Cincinnati. If a Dyrenforth kite of a dynamite bomb could put Mr. Mek bourne nearer the sources of rain supply we might look for a Noachian deluge.— Brooklyn Citizen.