Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-05-23
Mr.. SpOOpendykc.
tiE ENrLAiNs To HIS SPoUsE OPERATIONS
OF rHE WEATHER BuREAu.

OF rHK WEATHER BuREAu.
II See" said Mrs. Spoopendyke As she
| laid the paper down. Il see that we are to
have rising, followed by falling barometer,
with northeast to southwest winds, and higher
or lower temperature. with clear or partly
cloudy weather. and light rains. How is it
they contrve 10 tell so accurately about the
weather: Do you understand it?"
| Certainly" replied Mr.. Spoopendvke,
'they do il by observation. They have man
out West observing. and man down East
who observes, and fellows observing around
in different parts of the country. They put
all their observations together, and we know
just what it's going to do"
| ~ suppose that's what makes the wind so
dtferen every morning, when one mans
temperature is rising, another is falling; and
when one is clear, all the rest are partly
cloudy with-"i
| mo. they amt. Each observer sends in
what he observes, and then the chief makes
up his mind from those reports what the
weather will he. Can't YOU understand"
"Perfcctly." said Mrs, Spoopendyke, rub
hing her elbows. IF one sees the barometer
rising. and another sees it falling; and it's
cold in one place and cloudy IN another, they
all say so. But should think when one hits
it right the others would be awful mad
manded Mr.. Spoopendyke. "You don't i'm
agine that they all get together and fight it
out, do you? They take the weather from
different points and combine it, and they par
| Gel it out among the different regions. For
| instance. If il SHOWS in the East and il warm
in the West, they strike an average for the
lake region. Now what is the average be-
tween heat and snow?'
"Ran," cried Mrs. Spoopendyke delighted
II 4 u. 4
| They take what is usually going on, and
| equaize it all over the country. I'm glad
the democrats weren't elected"
| .'What have they got to do with il? DO
| YOU think barometer is a politician?'
| 'No. But if the democrats had been elect
ed they would have had to change it all
around, wouldn't they? And the South would
have got the best share. That's what the re-
pub.
"Dod gast the republicans! They've got
no more to do with it than you have. You
have got idea that they throw the barome
tiers and observers into one end of a steam
engine and the weather comes out of the
other They don't make weather. The
weather makes itself 1t is the only self
supporting thing about the Government. And
| these signal men only watch il, and tell what
it's going to be"
81 suppose when these observers all get
| 4 toll, -, ;t "a lal
storm centre, isn't it?''
"That's it, shouted Mr.. Spoopendyke.
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