Huntsville gazette., 1881-07-30
The Signs Of the Weather.

1t IS an easy matter enough to forecast
the weather like Prof. Tice and Mr.
Vennor, If people will only give their
minds to it. By closely reading and
studying the predictions of these great
weather breeders, we have deduced the
following rules, by which they make all
their forecasts. (Hind cast of the
weather are not made until the next
day.
An intensely blue sky indicates a tenn
porary absence of clouds. Under other
circumstances, again, an inteaso4y blue
sky indicates tornado.
When woman leaves piece of soap
on the stairs, where her husband will
tread upon it, it is dead sure sign Of o
storm.
When the sun rises behind bank Of
clouds, and the clouds hang low all
around the horizon, and all over the sky,
and the air feels damp, and there is
fine drizzling mist blowing, the indica-
tions are there will be a rain somewhere
in the United States or Canada.
When it begins to thunder, look out
for lightning.
When a man gets up in the night, and
feels along the top pantry shelf in the
dark, and knocks the big square bottle
without any label down to the floor and
breaks it, it is sign there is going to be
a dry spell until seven or eight O'Clock
in the morning.
When the spring millinery openings
are advertised, look for bright sunny
weather all around the house, with
treacherous calms and rising barometer.
indicative of sudden tempests and mean
temperature.
When the cradle begins to vibrate with
irregular, spasmodic motions about one
O'Clock in the morning, look out for
signals and try to remember where You
put the paregoric the last time you used
it.
When the youngest boy in the family
comes home three hours after school
hours, with his hair wet and his shirt
wrong side out, look out for a spanking
breeze.
To see the head of the family feeling
in his right-hand pocket, then in the
left-h;.nd pocket, then in all his vest
pockets, then in his hip pockets, and
then whistling at the ceiling, indicates
no change. If he suddenly stops whist
ling at the ceiling and expands his face
into broad grimace of delight, it means
s'unexpected change"
II the spring bonnet comes home trim
med on the right side for the wearer's
seat in church, and has two more springs
and three more dandelions than the bon
net of the woman in the next pew, it is
ssset fair
The weather during the whole Of
Thanksgiving week. **** %*
*** (*)*!
An unusually large number of spiders
presages a very mild or a very open
winter, as the case may be.
If the corn-husks are very thick, the
winter will be colder than the summer.
If the corn-husks are very thin, the
summer will be warmer than the winter
If the corn-husks are neither too thin
nor too thick, the summer will be warm
and the winter will be cold.
If the weather prophet predicts a
rainy season, and it happens to rain
away out in Calayeras County, and is
dry as bone all over the rest of Amer
ica, this rain must be set down to the
credit of the weather breeder, and the
vi tiIlio CoUHts iOl uOJuluS.
If the weather breeder predicts avery
dry month, and the raging floods sweep
all the country in one wild, drowning
deluge except Newton Upper Falls,
Massachusetts, then people must say
that sure enough old Vennor said it was
going to be dry this month!
Still, it is just as well to bear in mind,
while you read the wild prognostications
of Mr.. Vennor and his great rival, that
rain fifteen hundred miles square no
more makes rainy day on this CONT
nent than hyspeck on the dome of the
Capitol makes the District of Columbia,
or even all of the dome, black. Any
body can say, "There will be rain and
thunder storms and cyclones throughout
the United States during july" and it
woJid be mighty safe thing to bet
money on. What we want, what the
country clamors for, is the man who can
tell US where the cyclone is going to
strike, and whom it will hit. And up to
date, that man hasn't said word about
tha weather R7lrIin0tO1 HnrkelJe