The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-07-28
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THURSDAY, JULY %, 1881.
FORECASTNG THE WEATHER.
TIE BURLINGTON HAWKEYE MAN
TRIES HIS HAND At THE JOB.

TRIES HIS HAND At THE JOB.
It is an easy matter enough tC
forecast the weather like Professor
lice and Mr.. Vennor, If people
viii only give their minds to it
BY closely reading and studying
The predictions Of these great wealth.
er breeders we have deduced the fol.
lowing 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
atemporary absence Of clouds. I'm
der other circumstances, again, IN
intensely blew sky indicates a tor
nado.
When a woman leaves a piece OF
soap on the stairs where her hus
band will thread upon If, it is a dead
sure sign Of a storm.
When the sun rises behind 3
bank ofclouds, and the clouds hang
low all around the horizon, and oy-
er the sky, and the air feels damp
and there is a fine drilling mist
blowing, the indications are there
will be rain somewhere in the Unit.
ed States or Canada.
When it begins to thunder loob
out for lightning.
When a man gets up in the night
and feels along the top pantry shell
in the dark, and knocks the bic
square bottle without any labe
down to the floor and breaks it, i
is a sign there is going to be a dry
spell until seven CT eight o'clock il
the morning.
When the spring millinery open.
ings are advertised look for bright
sunny weather all around the house
with treacherous calm and rising
barometer, indicative Of suddeI
tempests and mean temperature.
When the cradle begins to VIII
rate with irregular, spasmodic mo
ton about one o'clock in the morn
inc, look out for signals and try tc
remember where you put the pare
goric the last time You used it.
When the Youngest boy in The
famiIv comes home three Iours aft
er school hours, with his hair we
and his shirt wrong side out, lool
ont for a spanking breeze.
10 see the head Of the family
feeling in his right hand pocker
and then in the left hand pocket
then IN his hip pocket, then in al
his vest pockets, then in his coat
pockets, and then at his ceiling, in.
dicates "no change"
If he suddenly stops whistlino
at the ceiling and expands his face
into a broad grimace Of delight, il
means ''unexpected change"
II the spring bonnet comes home
trimmed on the right side Of the
Wearer's seat in church, and has two
more springs and three more dan
dclions than the bonnet OF the WON
IN in the next pew, it is "set fair. "
The weather during the whole d
Thanksgiving week. ~
:!
An unusually large number Of
spiders prosages q very mild or {
very open winter, as the case may
be.
If the corn-husks are very thick
the winter will be cooler than the
summer.
IT the corn-husks are very thin
the summer will be warmer thar
the winter
If the corn-husks are neither toe
thick nor too thin, the summer vii
be warm and the winter will be
cold.
If the weather prophet predicts
rainy season and it happens tC
rain away ont in Calveras county
and is as dry as a bone all over the
rest Of America, this rain must be
set down to the credit Of the wealth
er breeder, and all the dry time
counts for nothing.
If the weather breeder predicts 8
very dry month, and the raging
floods sweep all the country in one
wild, drowning deIuge except
Newton Upper Falls, Mass, then
people must say that sure enough
old Vennor said it was going to be
dry this month.
Still, it is just as well to bear il
mind, when you read the wild prog
nostication5 Of Mr.. Nennor anc
his great rival, than a rain ffteel
hundred miles square no more
makes rainy day on this cont
ncnt then a fly speck on the dome
Of the Capitol makes the District ..
Columbia, or even all OF the doms
black. Anybody can say, "thert
will be rain and thunder storms anC
cyclones in the United States in Ju-
y" and it would be mighty safe
thing to bet money ON. What We
want, What the country clamors for
is y man vino can tell us when anC
where the cyclone is going to strike
and whom it viii hit. And up tC
date that man hasn't said 1 wore
about the weather.
ELLA WHEELER, in poetry, says
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