The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-05-06

have collated from many "curioui
volume of forgotten lore" The faitt
with which observers in ancient day.
drew inferences as to meteorological
mutations, and the confidence the
people reposed in the undoubted yer
ification of such predictions, are 10
sharp contrast to the incTedulity OF
Indifference of the public at the pres
ent time.
First we have some general obser-
vations which are believed to portend
a change of weather. These are
drawn from the vagaries Of different
species OF animated nature. Though
| something similar IS to be met with
| In English literature illustrative of
! the subject, yet these that follow are
based on a different order of objects,
and are now for the first time pre-
sented to the general public:
When frogs croak loudly the Iive-Iong
day,
Not long will you have for rain to stay.
When in the middle Of the pool
The frog spawns deeply lie:
II Is sign that clearly tells
A summer warm and dry;
But II It's nat and ON theshOie
In ctngtng masses set.
Drain well thy land 10. IL forewarns,
a summer damp and wet.
When the note of the wood. pigeon
Is unusually prolonged, it is an indi.
cation of pleasant weather.
When the glow worms sparkling ray,
Flashes wide at close Of day,
Weather will come bright and fair,
And warm and pleasant will be he air;
But If they hide until st. Johns day,
No warm, bright weather VIII come while
they stay.
The above is plain and self con-
vincing. But the tenor OF the next
seems to acknowledge the instinct of
insects superior to the calculations of
man. But what men lack In posi-
tiveness they make up In perception.
When in the open meadow his web the
A sign of pleasant weather tits that no
one e'er deeetves;
II fair when he cease spinning, a sudden
change Is feared,
But shou IL rain when he begins the
skies Will soon be cleared.
What follows has more particular
relation to phenomena observed in
the month of May. If in this lati-
tude, as generally is the case, the
weather IS not particularly warm,
the compensation set forth below is
perhaps sufficiently satisfactory:
A cooi May,
Much straw and hay.
II May is wet July Will be dry.
Both barn and cellar full will set,
should May be cool ard June be wet.
when May is cool, gooa crops will rule.
May dews the meadow with green invest,
But May frosts are unwelconne guests
Ii the cry Of the peacock is long
and loud at night. it may be consid-
cred the forerunner Of rain.
The next is somewhathyperbolical,
and withal rather indefinite:
Would May a gardner be.
Naught Ia the barns brings he.
Referring to the particular days we
find the following recorded of the
first:
Rain on tho Walpurgis night,
Is TO the thresher a welcome sight
If on the first rain doth appear,
II shows good crops and fertile year.
There is tradition, and experience
seems to justify it, that:
Up to the 18th, often indeed to the
18th, there is danger of hurtful frosts
The calendar assigns to St. Urban
the 25th, and of that day it is re-
corded
IL Urkan's day is clear and nne,
Much grapes viii flourish on the vine.
Good weather on Sc. Urban's day
VIII well the farmers toll repay.
Ascension day, which occurs this
year on the Goth. being a red letter
day, is, If we may trust what appears
below. dominant in more respects
than one.
AS is the weather on Ascension day,
just the like weather will the whole
fade away.