The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-10-17
Weather Signs.


Every man has some way of tel
ling the changes in the weather, or
rather no way Of telling what the
weather will be. He fixes on some
rule and agrees with himself that he
will believe the weather to be thus
or thus, according as his rule de-
mands.
These signs do not generally re-
ceive from those who follow them a
very critical Investigation. When a
man snys, al have noticed for more
than foity years that always when,"
etc, it may be quietly assumed that
he has noticed no such thing. He
has heard some n say thus and SO;
he has n vague idea that once or
twice he has seen the sign come true,
but the dozens of times when it ut
terly failed, he paid no regard to.
1t is a common saying that there
will come u change of the weather
with a change of the moon. Now,
as the moon changes once u week, a
change Of weather must come some
where near n change of the moon.
But take u leng series of obserya-
tions, such as those made by the
agents for the Smithsonian Institute
observations which give the state
of tho thermometer, the direction of
the wind, character Of the clouds
and fall Of rain in u particular place
noted three times n day for years,
and by comparing the changes Of
the moon, we find that there is no
trac-able connection between the
two-that sometimes tho weather
changes with the moon and just rs
often does not.
The moon char Oh tho same
day all over the ca A change of
weather moves more slowly than the
moon, so that if tho moon and
weather run together on tho Allan
tic coast, they would not be on the
Rocky Mountains or on the Pacific
coast. Again, when the weather is
very wet IN the Atlantic slope, it
may be very dry in the Mississippi
Valley. If t changes from wet to
dry in one place, it should change
from dry to wet in the other. Peo-
pie forget hat the moon changes
elsewhere than in their own town
ship.
Says some old farmer, "It will
turn warm neXt week, Tuesday, for
there is Il change Of the moon"
"Turn warm where?" We ask him.
"Why, turn warm here" But the
moon will change up ill Alaska-will
it turn warn there? And it has al
ready turned warm downin Texas
has the moon already changed there
or does not Texas weather go by
the moon?
Says some old observer, 81 have
noticed for more than forty years
that tho frs. frost in the Fall comes
at the time Of the full Of tho moon"
But the firstfros does not come at
the same time in Montreal, Phila-
delphia, and Savannah ; and if the
first frost in Montreal comes on q
half-moon, the first in New York
could not be before the first full
moon, and Richmond would have to
wait till another moon before it
could a9!!el. havesS t6f9Yti Cabtt ting G9gtii65fftt frf3hStb
next July.
Beans should be planted in the
new of the moon," says some old fell
low who has had "experience.' But
beans should not be planted in Mis-
souri, at the same time as in Arkan-
sas or Louisiana, and if each lati-
tude must wit for a new mool for
bean planting, the people up in Da-
kota or British Americn would not
got in their leans ut all.
"The 2Sth of the month";" says
another, "shovs what is to be the
prevailing weather for the next
month" But awhile ago the alma
nae was changed from old style to
now style, and now the 2Sth comes
at a different time by eleven days
from what it did before. 1t is Just
as reliable to reckon from as before?
We reckon it is.
If the new moon is tipped up SO
that you can hang apoN der-horn on
it, the month will be u dry onc-or
u wet one--the weather prophets are
not agreed which.
When the sun crosses the line en-
the Goth of March or September, we
shall have IN equinoctial storm in
March, and ono may come some
where nem the Doth, but it may
have as much connection with st.
Patrick's Day as with the sun cross
ing the line
Let a mar take notes of the mat
ter for a series Of years, and set them
down on paper; he will be able to
test these signs. But the hap-haz
ard recollections of an old sailor or
nm old farmer arc no guide. He
thinks he has observed, when in fac,
he has paid no strict attention to
the matter at all.-KaasaS C,ty BuI-