Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-03-27
For the Grant County Herald.
PREDICTIONS FOR
AETaEE,s

Mr.. EDITOR: Presuming my commu-
nications to your paper may not have
been considered uninteresting to your
readers, mean TO continue them from
time to time.
In my last letter I offered few re-
marks on Meteorology. Twill again re-
new the subject as preface to my wea-
Their prognos tications for April.
The subject of Meteorology in all ages
and countries has attracted the especial
attention of mankind. In ruder states
of society, empirical prognostics, found
ed on the aspects of the clouds, on the
movements Of animals, and on other in
cidental occurrences, formed the study
Of those who pretended to foreknow-
ledge of the weather, while electrical
phenomena were objects of surerstitious
awe. In modern times much of this
wonder and uncertainty has been reno
we'd. The gloom or the clearness of the
air, the mists and the halos of stormy
sky; the restlessness and clamor of ami
mails, &c., are. now referred simply to
that overcharge of moisture, and to that
unequal distribution of electricity which
pfecedes fall Of rain; nay, the very
thunderbolt has been arrested in its
course, and being no longer an object of
amazement, has been Invested of half its
terrofS.
But is this advance in knowledge cal
culated to lessen our veneration for the
great Author Of Nature, or 10 derogate
from His wisdom and His power? On
the contrary, our estimation Of both must
be greatly increased. Of the Deity In
finite as he is, and dwelling in infnity,
we finite beings can form no concep option,
what little, therefore, we can know of
him, we know nearly altogether from
his works. Consequently, whoever has
most studied his works, will be most
qualified to form an adequate conception
Of him; Thus to measure, to weigh, to
estimate, to deduce, may be considered
as the noblest privileges enjoyed by man !;
for only by these operations is he ena-
bled to follow the footsteps of his maker,
and TO trace his great designs. Instruc-
ted by these operations, he sees and ap-
preciates the wisdom and the power, the
justice and the benevolence, that reign
throughout creation he no longer gazes
on the sky with stupid wonder, nor
breads the thunderbolts as manifestins
the wrath of a vehgeful Deity.
Almighty power! amazing are Thy ways,
Above our knowledge, and above our praise
How all thy works thy excellence display;
How fair, how great, how wonderful are they
Thy hand yon wide-extended heaven appraised I;
Yon wide-extended heaven with stars embla-
Where each bright orb since Time his course
begun,
Has rolled mighty world or shined sun.
Stupendous thought how sinks all human race,
A point, an atom, in the abyss of space.
Predictions.
Windy at the beginning of the month,
with flying clouds and rising tempera-
ture, but for the most part fair and set
tied for several days. Again windy
near the 18th, followed with showers at
intervals. Fair about the 23d and often
cloudy. Very stormy and unsettled
from the 9th 10 the end of the month.
Days of storm more or less in power,
may be anticipated on or very near the
9th, 18th, oath, and 2Sth.
On the 10th the sun and Jupiter are
in quartile aspect, which influences a
warm temperature and often rain
This am DESTROYS your readers would
be particular in observing.
Now winter is past and the frosts are gone,
| And the day smiles serenely and clear;
And the sky, and the birds, and the warm RI
sing sun,
Proclaim it the spring of the year.
For, now bright Sol has crossed the line,
Which cuts the globe in twain;
And smiling sheds his beams benign
On the late shiv'ring swain.
THos. S. SHAW.
Shaw Hill, near Prairie du Chen,
March 18th. 1854.