Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-03-27

most the memory of such seasons, and al
ow some to even doubt their previous ex-
Silence.
The cutting off of our forests las ten
lency to give greater rainfall in showers,
which moisture sooner gives place to drouth
han in a wooded country. The ability TO
'oretell storins is an acquired habit from
observation, and with barometer and rea
,onable unbiased observation no observer
need be in fault, Tue war and post Office
departments of government now publish
he course of all great storms, but place
$ liable to have local storms OF small ex-
ent which can only be Gorctold by the To-
al observer. With all extensive storms
heir probabilities as published are reliable
md become a very valuable help to the To-
,al observer. Showers generally pass over
he country in belts, the length of New
England or longer, but sometimes there
are local showers not obeying these laws.
Examples of such local showers Of great
violence were then 9ivcn.l
Signs of rain may be observed which
without meteorological instruments will
enable the farmer to judge very accurate
ly of the changes, many OF which are en-
bodied in the following lines:
Tho hollow winds began to blow,
And the barometer is low.
The SCOT falls down, the spaniels sleep
And spiders from their cobwebs peep.
Last night the went pale to bed,
The moon in halo hid her head.
The clouds look black appearing nigh,
And see, rainbow spans the sky.
The walls damp the bitches smell,
Closed In the pink eyed pimperneL
Hark how the Chairs and table crack,
Rheumatic joints the rack.
Loud quack the ducks the sea fowl cry,
The distant hills looking nigh
How restless are the snorting swine,
The busy flies disturb the kline.
Low DER the grass the swallow wings,
The cricket too, how sharp he sings
Puss ON the hearth with velvet paws
Sits wiping DER her whiskered jaws.
The smoke from chimneys right ascends,
Then spreading back to earth it bends.
The wind unsteady veers around.
Or, settling in the south is found.
Through the clear stream the fishes rise.
And nimbly catch the incautious flies.
Illumined the dewy hill last night.
Al dusk the squalid toad was seen,
Like quadruped stalk on the green.
The whirling wind the dust obeysl
And in the rapid eddy plays.
The frog has changed her yellow vest,
And In russell coat is dressed
The sky is green, the air is still,
The mellow blackbirds voice is shrill.
The dog is altered in his taste,
Quits usual food on grass to feast
Behold the crows, how odd their digit,
They initiate the gliding kite,
And seem to percipitate to fall,
As II they felt the piercing bal.
The tender colts on back do lie,
Nor heed the traveller passing by.
The rocks are seen in shade to sweat,
Although the sun is radiant yet.
In fiery red the sun doth rise,
Then wade through clouds to mount the skies
Twill surely rain, see it with SORROW
Twill rain to-day, and rain tomorrow.
There are also other clouds more pecul-
lar than rain clouds, sometimes producing
a dark ness like that Of night at midday
like the 10Th day of May, 1850, which was
a darkness so great as to require artificial
light at MONDAY; there was a slight dust
deposited upon everything. and doubtless
it was aleea, or foreign substances of vari-
Gus kinds floating in the atmosphere thai
caused it, though the lapse of time has
been so great since its occurrence that mos
of the minute particulars are lost. (Vari
Gus other examples were brought forward,
In other storms dust sometimes falls, as in
orthern Vermont, Feb. l2th, 1870, when
dust fell with snow 10 the amount of three
grains to the square foot. This was doubt
less metcoric. Closely following in the line
of atmospheric proc igies we must rccog-
nize showers of blood, as they are termed
in history. Commencing 572 years AFTER
Christ, we CLEAN from authentic history 81
instances of such phenomena, Several OF
which were described.) In recent times
such showers have more generally been
found TO be water colored with red earth,
in several instances il has been the excre-
ments of butterflies, and once OF small red
insects. This last was March 3lst, ls47, in
Germany. In 1928 there was an abundant
shower of vegetable granules in Persia, SC
that il covered the ground TO the depth ol
near two inches. 1t was greedily devoured
by cattle and sheep, and the inhabitants
dried and ground it, making very nutri-
ticus bread from it. Several ether instanc-
es were cited also.)
Again, what seems even more renarka-
BILE is that living fish and frogs as well as
other things, sometimes have fallen from
Tho ,lyv ICayaroI incidantS from history
were SPOKEN of, but the most authentic was
within the experience of the spcaker.) In
January 1850 he witnessed the fall of some
thing from the clouds which he found Ia
be frog, though there was three feet OF
snow on the ground. The wind was south
erly and ne was doubtless raised by a
whirlwind in a much more southern CLINE.
Honey dew was then referred to as gener-
ally the deposit of the Aphis, being an ex-
udation from the tubes upon their backs,
That it is sometimes the result of the sting
of the leaf by some insect, he thought
probable also that it might be in clover
fields, where he once observed ii, from the
overflow of the honey in the flowers great
ly diluted by water, and was left after the
water had evaporated upon the leaf.
As a rule he thought that sufficient i'm
porlauce was not attached to the functions
of the atmosphere by the people. 1t is
from that we draw our being. Plants, AMI
mails and men imbbe therefrom the first
elements of their existence. II is also the
vehicle to convey sound, and that property
enables us to have language or means Of
social communication. 1t is also the first
element of our bodily tissues. Breathing
affords three fourths of our nourishment
and all our animal heat. Each atom of all
therefore passes from life to life, as il es
capes from death after death, being in turn
wind, flood, earth, animal, or flower. Ii il
successfully employed in the composition
of thousand different beings. The mex
haustable source from whence every thins
that lives draws breath the air is beside!