The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-08-12
That Man VennOr.

Henry G.. Vennor. the Canadian
weather prophet, who has gained wide
spread reputation for the accuracy of his
predictions, takes exceptions to state
ments published concerning his early
life, Ca so-called biography and adj
dresses letter to the editor of the Wash
ington Repudiic in which he says:
II was born in 1871, Mt Montreal mot
1S40,) and my parents are English. My
early life was spent, not Ill poverty, but
i'll ease and luxury, my father being
head partner in the lelding wholesale
hardware establishment of 4" pudden &
Vennor," with houses both Mt Montreal
and Liverpool. My mother WAS a Pat
terson and was connected with some of
the oldest families in Scotland Ny ed
nc ,tion was not obtained wholly
through his own exertions," but with
my brothers at two of the leading
schools in Montreal. AMI after these at
the University of McGi !, where L was
Immediately under the tuition of Princi-
pal Dawson, Dr. T. Sterry Hunt and
other leading Pr fessors.
Before leaving the University 1 took
two years of evil eng ,neering and two
honor courses iii science. / also attend
ed the chemistry classes of orr Medical
College. After spending about five years
In the whole-ala hardware firm of Messrs.
Rockingham d Workm IN, of Mon
treal, during the whole of which time I
was n gre at collector and student of BIRDS
and animals,) L received an appoint
ment, through the late Sir VIM. T.. Lo-
gan, Government Geologist, on the geo.
logical survey of Canada, and spent my
first season 1850 In survey of the
Grand Manitoulin Island, Lake Huron.
Here / made very large collection of
birds In 1865 | continued my geologi-
cal Investigations in Hastings County,
Province of Ontario, and thence year af-
ter year explored eastward until Ottawa
was reached. From this center and be-
tween the years 1875 and 1880 exam
med the whole of Ottawa County and
traversed the rivers Gatenian, Lieyere
and Rogue to their source i'll the "un-
known wilderness to the northward. In
1851 L concluded my geographical re-
searches in connection with the Govern
m mt and have opened general mining
agency in this city.
:" have only further to state that my
" Birds of Prey" cost me some 50, 800,
and as the work was too expensive for
Canada great deal of money was lost ON
IT. L have given away very large num-
Der OF copies through the United States.
Z" My almanac | hope to make me-
dinm for the exchange of meteoroloQici Il !
information throughoutCanaCa and North
America. Gain is not my object, and
hitherto publishers and agents have
made all the profits. L attibute my
present position or reput alton entirely
to my close study of the course of storms
in years gone by, and n comparison of
these with those of to-day in every Sec
ton of country. l have ca ried the peo- /
pie along with me, not so much 10y one
general strikingly accurate. foe asst
(such as that of the winter of 1881 as a |
whole), but by numerous well Iii ected |
local predictions, unostentatiously pub |
lished, but telling i'll their effect upon |
the people included."
A VIRGINIA writer says ave some- !
times see tender, fair flower of gi |
in the midst Of group of loud vo ced, |!
loudmannered sisters. Neither under |
st ,nds the other, aud, like toe ugly duck.
lings of the fairy tales, she becomes the
star that eclipses all the rest, much t.
their amazement The explanation il |
simple Somewhere back in her ancestry |
was gentleman who mingled the |
patrician with the plebeian current, and |
IL breaks out in her and makes her as |
another being-a very LILY among holly |
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