The Osceola times., 1881-08-13
The signs of the Weather.
Bob Burdette,


II jsan easy matter enough to forcas,
the weather like Professor 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, VIC 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 TEN.
porlry absence of clouds. Under other
circumstances, again, an intensely blew
sky indicates tornado.
When a woman leaves piece Of soap
on the stairs where her husband will
tread upon it, il Is dead sure sign of
storm.
When the sun rises behind a bank of
clouds, and the clouds hang low all
around the horizon, and all over the
sky, and the ar feels damp, and there Is
fine drizziing mist blowing, the indi.
cations are there will be rain some~
where in the United States or Canada.
When it begins to thunder look our 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 there is going 10 he
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
ndicali We of sudden tempests and mean
emperature.
When the cradle begins to vibrate wi b
irregular spasmodic motions about oLe
O'Clock in the morning. look out for sig
nails and try to remember where you put
the parasoric 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 the vest
pockets, then in his hip. pocket, then in
his coat-pockets, and then at the ceiling,
indicates "no change"
II he suddenly stops whistling at the
ceiling and expands his face into
broad grimace OF delight, il means "un-
expected change"
If the spring bonnet comes home
trimmed on the right side for the wear
ers seat in church, and has two more
springs and three dandelIons than the
/ bonnet of the woman in the next pew,
( il is 'set fair"
Tae weather during the whole ot
/ THANKSGIVING week *sf* - -
An unusually large number of spiders
presages very mild or very open win.
| ter as the case may be.
If the corn-husks are very thick, the
winter will be colder than the simmer.
II the cOin-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.
II the weather prophet predicts rainy
season and it happens to rain away out
in Calaveras County, and is as dry as n
bone all over the rest Of America, this
rain must be set down TO the credit of the
weather breeder, and all the dry time
counts for nothing.
III the weather breeder predict very
dry month, and the raging foods sweep
all over the country in one wild, drown.
ing deluge except Newton, Upper Falls.
Mass, then the people must say that
sure enough old Vennor said it was 90
ing 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 Il
ram fifteen hundred miles square no
more makes rainy day on this conii>
nent than fly speck on the dome o.
the Capitol makes the District of Colum-
bla, or even all ofthe dome, black. Any
body can say, there will be rain and
thunder storms and cyclones in the
United States during July" and it would
he 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 a word about tho
weather.