Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1848-11-02

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suing fall and winter will be sickly.
If it lightens on clear starlight night,
in the south or south east, rain and wind
will follow-if it Tighten in an evening to-
wards the north, south, or southwest, it in.
dicates wind.
Hot weather generally precedes thunder,
which is followed by cold showery wea-
ther
When the wind is southwest during sum-
mer or autumn, and the temperature of the
air is unusually cold for the season, both
to the feeling and the thermometer, with a
low barometer, much rain is to be expected
Violent temperature, as storms of great
rains, produce a sort of crisis in the Amos
phere which produces constant tempera-
lure, good or bad, for some months,
In morning. if mist which hangs over
the lowlands, draws towards the highlands,
it is sign of an approaching fine day.
If in the evening white mist spreads
over meadow through which a river flows,
it will be drawn up by the sun in the
following morning, and tine clear day will
follow.
When the dew lies plentifu!ly upon the
grass after fine day, another fine day may
be expected-but il, after such a fine day,
no dew fall nor any breeze be stirring, il in
dictates that lie. vapours are ascending.
and will soon be precipitated in the form o!
rain.
1t is certainly 4 surprising phenomenon
TO see The earth, after long and abundant
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quite free from dirt, and the lands to become
quite arid and parched. This is sign that
the rain las not altogether ceased, aud de-
notes continued alilux of electric matter,
which, being renewed, carries with it, in the
form of vapors, all The moisture that falls on
The earth. There is sometimes, however,
"a great deal of dirt. even after very mode
rate, which in that case, is sign OF fair
weather, because ilindicales that evaporation
has ceased. Dry stones and moist earth an
nounce fine wea,her-dry earth and moist
stones announce rain.
If the flame of lamp crackles or flares.
i. indicates rainy weather. The case is the
same when SCOT delacbes itself from the
chimney and falls down.
1t is sign Of rain when the SCOT collect
ed around pots or kettles takes FIRE, in the
form Of points like grains Of mliet, because
this phenomenon denotes that the air is cold
and moist.
if the fame is more ag,ated though the
weather be calm a: the time, il indicates
wind.
When the fame burns steady. and pro-
ceeds straight upwards, i, is q sign Of fine
weather.
If the sound of bells is heard at great
distance, it is sign of wind, or of change
of weather.
The hollow sounds Of forests, the muir
muring noise of the waves of the sea, their
foaming, and green and black Tor, announce
storm.
Good or bad smells, when usually strong,
seeming as if the air were condensed, are
sign of change of weather, either because
exhalations arise and are dispersed in more
abundance, which is sign of an increase of
elasticity,-or because the air does not dis
pei or raise these exhala,ions which midi
Gates that the constitution of the atmosphere
is motionless, light and void of elasticity.
When the spiders web and the leaves
of trees are agitated without any sensible
wind, it is sign Of wind, and perhaps of
rain, because it denotes that strong and pen
e,rating exhalations arise from the earth
These signs are less equivocal, when the
Saayleaves and chaff are raised into a vortex.
and carried into the air.