Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-08-14
"rne Canadian wsa.i,sr propao.r


 eyer-lnasmuch as she was clearly mis
 taken in her interesting little prediction
 that the world would come to an end ol
 the 18th instant, at l p. m., and from tn
 fact that her speculatIons are not ikel,
 to have stretched much beyond tha date-it Is to be hoped that we shall. il relation to the astronomical and meteor logical phenomena of the future at least turn our attention to the deduction O science and natural philosophy, and re Iect as unworthy the slightest consider ation that class uf profound speculator. who are always proposing sublime i'm | possibilities, such as the collision O some two or more Of the heavenly bod les; and that we shall also take cum | grano the filppant and adToit generaliza tlOns of those self-coustituted meteor ologists who base their predictions or the gymnastics of a' cat, the cawinl rocks, or the laws of chance.
 But wholly propositions as this proph. | ecy of Mother ShIpton's IS, doubtless nc inconsiderable number of the gentlemen at Albany, and a vast majority of those connected with the press, bre8thed more freely when the latest vibration of the hour of l ?. m. died on their ears last | Sunday. We shall not be more specific Tn this relation, as We confess to being q triile in arrears ourselves; but then a 1 respite m their case seemed of such gi- gantlc moment, that no matter how ill., founded their alarm, 1t would have been reprehensible not to have sympathized with them ln their dismay. However. as we all have fair start once more in the line Of investigation and progress. and as among other things true forecasts Ot the weather cannot be a matter of in- difference tO us-nay, more, must be of the gravsst importance-we regard 1t as somewhat fortunate that We aIe enabled tO present to our readers teddy, the DOT trait which graces our pages, and which IS that of q Canadian gentleman, whose name Is upon every tongue, and who Is said to have made frequently some very extraordinary predictions m relation to the weather, winch were fully-yeriied.
 Mir Nemor was born ID Montreal, in the Province of Quebec, Canada, III the year 1Siu We are not at this moment m possession nf any, data r.,sl..s.,snue. l,is can! yv'tvfH, d1Slut'5ti we are assured by a contemporary that # was spent ID a search after knowledge which soon be- came most serOus and labOuous. This laAltl SLGAAtlF GAA44AH tl a AtDiADA. II as We are informed, he is a gentleman of " mauy-sided accomplishments, beIng a geOlOgIst, a mIneralOgisJ., naturalist, and meteOrolOglst. The attainment of so much scientific amt practical knOWl- edge Tn one who has not yet reached the prime of life, IS not of every uay ocrur- renee, and tempts Us to accept as tact the assertion that he has rOughed Ir III almost all parts of Canadd,' m pufsmt of those requirements; and that uIs sue cess m relation to them mas established his name m both Canada and England. With regard to the value Oi thls latter assertion, however, We are not m posses sion of any evidence beyond that cOn- taIned Ill newspaper paragraph, al- though We have no desIre tO question or doubt II. MT. Nenuor has, We are In- formed, written a very admirable and exhaustive work, entitled |" Our Blrds of Prey which has been received with fa- vOr not only III his own country, but ID Europe. This work, unfortunately, we have not seen, as all that has reached us bearing NIT. NennOr's name, IS hls alma nae for the present yedr-a neat IIttle publication which IS repIete with old saws" much useful information and a large and prepOnderatlng amount of Sc lected matter.
 One can scarcely arise from perusal of this almanac, however, without hav- ing perceived that Mr. NennOr has fought shy of hIs calendar; not having committed himself III It to the predIc- ton of any sort of weather for any day or three days or week from the tirst to the last hour of the year. True, he has generallzed in relation to each month, and supplied the place of more pertI- nent information In the calendar with quaint Saxon proverbs, and mIscella- neous extracts emDOdylDg the opinions of others, but not a sentence n the usual legitimate manner from hIs own pen. 1hls IS to be regretted, though he may, to some extent, congratulate hlm- self on the omsslOn, as, certainly, hIs prediction that thls J une was nkeIy "tO prove warm, even hot and dry up to about the lUth or lZth days was utterly incorrect for thls meridian and latitude at least, II being asserted broadly by that infallible authority, ''tIe oldest lnnabIt- ant" that no such gloomy, cod aud rainy weather had characterised the first twelve days of any previous June for the last thirty-five years.
 In making some of our almanacs We are too prone to accept English weather predictions and quant proverbs as ap- plying to our months and seasons here. Take, for example, that when pefsists in alleging that when March comes m like a hon 1t goes out like lamb. Ger tainly in the State of New l Urk this Is so far from being fact, We almost In- cline to the behel that the reverse will be found to be the case III large ma- iority of instances. Decidedly, last March, which came m like non, went out in no very lamb like mood; and thls is attested not only by our own recollec- tion, but by an American almanac now open before Us, winch predicted that its close would be marked by ''herce winds" "a prediction verified to the letter. \ dry, gusty English March that expires m sunshine showers and calm IS as widely different from ours as our spring Is from that of the butish lsics. Hence, English stereotyed expressions In Iela- tion to the different months Of the year should not be found prominent in any of our almanacs.
 Forecasts of weather affecting large areas are not so difficult of. management as those applying to small and sharply defined localities. There is a very clear distinction and difference between the prediction that the State of New York will be visited by heavy showers Of ram on the 2Jth of July, and the assertion that on that day torrents of rain will fall