The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-02-07
Influence of the Moon on the Weather.

WierZbicki, Assistant at the Observatory
at Cracow, has made use of As years of
continuous observations on the climate of
that station to investigate the influence of
the moon. The first person who made any
practical investigation of this subject ap
pears to have been Laplace, who studied
the influence Of the moon upon the hight
of the barometer. In tue same direction
also Bouvard labered, basing his investiga-
ton on twelve years of observations at
Paris, and he proved that the influence of
the moon upon our atmosphere was so in
considerable, at least for the latitude of
Paris, that it might be considered as not
existing at all. Wierzbicki divides his in
vestigations into two sections; studying
first the influence of the synodic revolution
of the moon, or the time that the moon
occupies in passing through all its phases,
and further subdividing the period of 45
years into two periods of 10 years each,
and showing that for both of these periods,
as well as for the entire period of As years,
the clear weather Ii. G. the number of clear
days. shows scarcely any trace of cor
nection with the phase of the moon. Dur
ing the lunar month, in fact the number of
clear days increases and diminishes five
times, and without any apparent regularity.
With regard to the rainfall, it appears
that in the first period Of nineteen years
the maximum rainfall occurs between the
first quarter and the full moon, and the
least rainfull between the full moon and
the last quarter. On the other hand, the
last period of nineteen years leads to a
series of observations, there results only
very slight indication of a connection with
the moon-which connection, if it actually
exists, would require for its demonstration
a series of measurements of the rainfall
numbering through much longer period
of years. The result attained by the study
Of the number of days on which rain fell
substantially agrees with that from the
study of the quantity of rain fallen, in
showing that the moon has very little, if
any, influence upon processes in our atmos-
phere. The same author, in studying the
anomalistic revolution of the moon, gives,
by very careful process of reasoning, two
conclusions different from those advocated
by Schiapareli, in finding no trace of the
the earth upon meteorological phenomena.
eB The True Marylander has funny
contributor, whose sig. is S. o. Lowmon,
and these are some of his Preparations:
A MIsTAKE.-When you see boy fall
down and get up, saying, "That didn't
hurt me p you may know for certain that
he has most killed himself.
Ny GOODNESS We are told "that
citizeu of this place gave his wife 81 last
Saturday night, to get up and hand him
his slippers down from off the clock. -
Either that is base and malicious libel, or
else that man was mighty tired, or else
mighty lazy, or else mighty rich, or else he
was nightly in hopes that she would give
IL Dack 10 minor else he was natural
born fool.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES you hear man
creeping out of bed, sort of on the sly, and
lighting the lamp ra-al easy, you may
know it is flea; when you hear him come
out, tearing and cussin', slashing his par
lor match down the wall, instead of the
box, with loud snap, snatching the lamp
about, still cussin', you may know 1t is bed
bugs; when you hear him land on the floor,
kerbang J, as if he pitched on his all-fours
like, you may know that he is a married
man and it is his wife's foot, or if he has
been marrisd about 2 years, that it is The
baby sleeping just behind his back; when
you hear him roll out, stretching and speak
ing the bed, about o'clock A. NJ. and a
hollerin' "Pm up" down stairs to the
cook, you may know that it is his break
fast.