Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-01-12
. rEw SIGNS wnIcm NEVER FAIL

If YOU drop your knife while eating, II is
a sure sign that this Is to be hard winter.
II YOU don't drop it, look out Tor tulips anu
plum blossoms in March. If you drop your
lish-clOlh wrong side up, and keep right on
washing dishes without noticing II, look out
for three feet of snow next day. This is |
sign which has never been known TO fail. II
YOU miss your snOw-shovel, and md II
under the bed, look out Tor a February
feshet. BY not paying due attention TO
this sign, my grandfather woke up one
morning with mill pond in his bed
room.
IL your aunt writes to you that she and
her husband and eldest girl aud five children
and two or three oil the neighboring families
who were well acquainted with your vile
before marriage, are coming TO visit you for
lew brief weeks during the winter, IN
order 10 prevent you from growing melan-
choly, it is a certain sign that it will snow
like bla2es within twenty-lOur hours, but the
snow won't be deep enough to stop them
from coming. If you Imagine II you Will be
sadly mistaken.
II You hear noise in the alley al mid
night, aud look out and find your neighbor
passing your wood.pile over the fence, you
can ioi IL down that the weather is going 10
change ard he colder before morning, and
that il you don't get the wood under lock
and KEY within week il will be frozen as
q
If you see your poultry standing around
The yard on one leg, il is a thrilling warning
which 10 man OF good Judgment will fail 10
need ltis an inlallible sign that man will
call at your house seventeen times day
during the next week to sell you some
patent polish for furniture, and that icicles @
loot long will form on the elbows OF the
stove pipe.
II you suddenly notice an absence Of cat
in your neighboihood prepare for an early
spring. Ii is sign that they have LETT fol
the country to dig cainip, and that the forth
coming peach crcp will be the heavles
known for several winters. No respectable
family will think OF going to bed withou
first counting TO see it ire number OF cat
has diminished
II YOU see frogs floating around ia tn
ponds during the coming month, make al
raugcments Ut once 10 secure copy Q
Gfeeley's work on agriculture. The boo
Is lileG with hundIcds OF reasons why frog
should enjoy the constitutional right OF thaw
ing out at the most unexpected times. Il
also sign that you won't get any MOI
wood until you have raid of that last core
ii your neighbor Slips down and breaks Ii
leg al any time between now and February
you viii want to look sharp. 1t shows
ale suing, with chilly rains all through Il
month Of May. Ii IS also pretty sure sig
that your town won't have a Fourth of Ju
celebration. il is your duty 10 call and lie
him thai he won't be able to walk for S
months, ana you wouldn't have had
happen to you Tor five hundred dollars.
H. you should hear robins and bue-bir
singing around some night next month, al
observe that the thermometer marked &
deglees below zero, don't fail to heed I
warning. An uncle Of mine allowed I
circumstance to pass without notice, a
Just thirty Sears Afterwards be was grou
up "a puiul mill. He might Just as "
have been one hundred and twenty years
to-day, ba for his lack Of perception
II your vile drops the rolling pin in t
workshop while preparing biscuits for su
per, yol might Just as well put up yC
hand-sled uull another year. The 81
never iai 10 bring high winds and bi
ground or the balance Of tue winter.
II yUn dream any night during the e
two weeks o. January that you are engaG
in tran.plun ns cabbage plants and cul
yauug su. 4 Ncrs, be warned by it.
ueighnoi o mine dreamed that Thing, and
Just i0utten years after, to day,
mot ri-iu law fell out OF an hotel wind
ana 90, Der ann out OF joint-DetroU
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