The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-06

'NESSss @ggI@8g5Il
Now that we have bid goodbye"
to Mother Shipton and her prophecies,
fOrever-in as much as she was mis-
taken in her interesting little predic-
tion that the world would come to an
end on the 10Th instant at l p. m, and
from the fact that her speculatiO.s
were not like to have stretched much
beyond that day-it is to be hoped
that we shall, in relation to the as
Economical and meteorological phe-
nOmena of the future at least, turn cur
attention to the deduction of science
and natural philosophy, and reject as
unworthy the slightest consideration
that class of profound spectators who
are always proposing sublime impOs-
sibilities, such as a collision of some
two or more of the heavenly bodies;
and then we shall also take cum gTdHO
the fiippant and adrOit congratulations
ofthose eseIf-cOnstituted meteOrolOgists
who base their predictions on the
gymnastics of a cat, the cawing of
rocks, or the laws of chance.
But, wholly preposterOus as IS this
prophecy of Mother ShiptOn, doubt
less no incOnsiderable number of the
gentlemen at Albany. and vast ma
iority of those connected with the
press, breathed more freely when the
last vibration of the hour of l p. IN.
died on their ears last Sunday. We
shall not be more specific III this rela-
ton, as we confess to being a tritle in
arrears ourselves; but then respite
in their case seemed of such gigantic
moment. that 10 matter how ILL
IL ! 81, III
been reprehensible not to have SYM
pathized with them in their dismay.
However, as we all have a fair start
once more in the line of investigation
and progress, and as among other
things true forecasts of the weather
cannot be a matter of Indifference to
us-nay, more, must be of the gravest
imDOrtance-we regard it as some
what fortunate that we are enabled to
present to our readers to-day, the pOr-
trait which graces our pages, and
which is that of a Canadian gentle
man, whose name is upon our tongue,
and who is said to have made fire.
quently some very extraordinary pre-
dictiOns in relation to the weather,
which were fully verified.
Mr.. Vennor was born in Montreal,
] Ill jilC L ION lHCC VI NguCbCNs SdlilNAcsJ III
! the year 1910 We are not at this mo-
ment, in possession of any data re-
! spccting his youth, although we are
assured by cotemporary, that ii was
spent in a search after knowledge
which soon became most serious and
! lahOriOus. This latter scarcely admits
/ of doubt, if, as we are informed, he
/ is a gentlemen of "manv-sided accom-
pliehments," being a geoIogst, min
eralogist, naturalist, anu Il meteOrOl-
ogist The attainment OF so much
scientific and practical knowledge in
one VINO has not yet reached the prime
Of life is not an every day occurrence,
and tempts us to accept as a fact that
he has rOughed it in almost all arts
of Canada" in pursuit of those ac-
quirements that day torrents of rain
will fall in the city of Albany. In
the one place the means of detection
are embarrassed by the posi- |ility
that it may be pouring down rain III
one part of the State while it is bright
and fair in another part, but in the
other case the value of the prediction
can be ascertained at once. Hence the
unsatisfactory congratulations which
we encounter so often, and which
seem TO draw their Inspiration from
all aggregate of past usual Occurren-
ces rather than from any profound OF
scientific source. 1t must not be sup
posed, however, that Avhat we now
say here is intended as applicable t.
Mr.. Vcnner's weather predictions; fol
had he not made some extraordinary
and clean cut successes in this rela
ton, he could scarcely have attained
to such CELEBRITY. Still as a test o
these is not before US, nor the means o
obtaining it at hand. we must conten
ourselves with hoping that they ar,
the veritable triumphs of genius anC
a thorough mastery of some of the Oc
cult phases of meteOrOlOgy rather thar
the fortunate, hap-hazard prediction
: of an astute observer and bold sLecu
lator who trusts to chance and adroi
phraseOlegy for his successes.
In making some of our almanacs W
are too prone to accept English wealth
er predictions and quaint proverbs a
, applying to our months and season
here. Take, for example, that whic
persists in alleging that when Marc
comes in like a lion it goes cut like
, lamb. Certainly in the State of NeV
York this is far from being fact.We a
most incline to believe that the revers
will be found to be the case in larg
n majority of instances. Decidedly las
: March, which came in like lion, wen
out iii no very lamb-like mood an
this is attested not only by our Ow
recollection, but by an American Al
. manac, now open before US, whic
predicted that its close would b
q marked by 'fierce winds, "a prediC
ton verified to the letter. A dry, gus
= ty. English March that expires in sun
: shine, showers anu calm, Is as widel
different from ours as our spring
= from that of the British Isles. Henc
, English stereotyped expressions in re
q latiOn to the different months in til
year, should not be found promineI
a in any of our almanacs.
Y Forecasts of weather affecting larg
q areas, are not so difficult of manage
! ment as those applying to small an
# sharply defined localities. There is
# very clear distinction and differenC
between the prediction that the Stat
of New York viii be visited by heav
IS showers of rain on the 25th of Jul,
e and the assertion that on and that b
d success in relation to them has e
a tablished his name in both Canao
y and England. With regard 10 Il
e value of this latter assertion, howeve
} we are not in possession of eviden'
= beyond that contained in neWsp
per paragraph, although we have l