Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-08-11
The Signs Of the Weather.
Burlington Hawkeye.

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1t is an easy matter enough to fore
cast 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 he makes all
his forecasts. Hind casts of the weather
are not made until the next day.
An intensely blue sky indicates tenn
pOraTy absence of clouds. Under other
circumstances, again, An intensely blew
sky indicates a tornado.
When woman leaves a piece of soap
on the stairs where her husband will
tread upon it, it is a dead sure sign of q
storm. ---.-=
When the sun rises behind q 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 q
fine drizzling mist blowing, the indica-
tions are that there will be rain some
where in the United States or Canada.
When 1t begins to thunder, look out
for lightning.
When 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 that there is going
to be dry spell until 2 or Sso'cloek in
the morning. .t g4lhaf aoqr li..a s.
When the spring millinery openings
are advertised, look for bright sunny
weather all around the house, with
Etreacherous calms and rising barometer,
Indicative of sudden tempesis 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 spanking
breeze.
To see the head of the family feeling
in his right hand pocket, then in the left
hand pocket, then in all his vest pockets,
then in his hip pocket. then in his coat
pockets, and then at his ceiling, indicates
mo change"
If he suddenly stops whistling at the
ceiling and expands his face in broad
grlmace of delight, it means "unexpect-
ed change"
|, If 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 dandeh0ns than the bon
net of the woman in the next pew, it is
"set fair"
The weather during the whole of
Thanksgiving week. -
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An unusually large number of spiders
presages a very mild or very open win
ter as the case may be.
If the corn husks are very thin, the
summer will be warmer than the win
ter.
If the corn husks are very thick, then
the winter will be colder than the sum
mer.
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 all the
dry time counts for nothing.
If the weather breeder predicts very
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,
when you read the wild prognOstications
of Mr.. .Vennor and his great rival, that
a rain. fifteen hundred miles square, no
more makes a rainy day on this contl-
nent than tiy-speck 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 in the Uni
ted States during July" and it would be
a mighty safe thing to bet money on.
What we want, what the country clam
ors for, is a man who can tell US when
and where the cyclone is going to strike
and whom it will hit. And up to date,
that man hasn't said word about the
weather. ~
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