Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1885-07-21
SUPERSTITI0NS.
HOW cRsDuLcus OLD PEOPLE IN.
TERPRET COMMONPLACE EVENTS
some OF the weather-Wisdom Handed
Down from Generation to Generation
Various other ''Old Wives
FnbIes"-Their Origin.
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scat-whack!
There was sudden howl as II Cog.
korn had been seized with a nightmare,
and a something that bore a decided re-
pmblance to cats tail disappeared over
the back fence Of ct Paul street resi-
dsnc, like a streak Of yellow lightning.
81 don't like to see cat lying in the sun
In February. said the old gentlemen, as
he slammed down the window and TO-
uned his chair by the fireplace
@Whr'" asked an increduous visitor.
at forobodes q stormy March was the
resrosse. why, that's a proverb I've
heard since was child, and I've never
suA particularly here in ~. laul
nrsst, they laugh at a fellow when he
/ hanls out hi. country saws That
shows their ignorance. for goodness
knsNs farmer knows more about the
weather in q week than they do In the
city for a month. There's another true
saying that when the north wind does
act blow in tebruary il will have its re-
verge In March. And for every thunder
with rain in this month, there VIII be
cold spell In May. The old proyerb says
Mat when the snow lies In the bitches 1t
h waiting for more, aud when It falls in
We mud II remains all winter Look out
far rain when the flakes grow larger as
they fall OF course, you remember the
6ns.honOred remark about the white
Christmas and the lean graveyard You
Peop,e never pay any attention TO these
signs, but the farmers, tie truckers, The
nllkmen people whom YOU brush past
srsry day on the streets or in tue markets
believe in them, because their fathers
taught them TO do So.
Il suppose every month has its own
si9nsI" asked the inCrrduous visitor, as
he gazed increduluuSly at "A nickel plated
horseshoe suspended over the mantel.
Every one Of them, was the reply,
-and Jew OF the most ancient and least
known will rrcile for your benefit II is
said that il grass grows in January It will
grow badly during the rest of the year.
The original saw for March says that il
the month comes in with an adder's head
il goes out with peacOck's tail II was
believed. too, that a 'bushel of March
dust was worth kings ransom. though
this was rather poetical adaptation. OF
April IL is said that a cod, moist April
nils the cellar and fattens the cow. A dry
May brings nothing.
"A dripping June sets all things TO tune.
When IL rains in August it rains honey
and wine. If the first day Of September
be fair the month will be good one. \
warm October brings a cold February.
Ice in November forbodes plenty Of sleet
and bad weather during the winter, and
a warm Christmas indicates a cold Easter.
The first three days of any season rules
its weather When II clears on Sunday II
will be clear until "Wednesday, and II II
rains on the first dog-day there will be q
hood for forty days thereafter. In spring
a tub Of rain makes teaspoonful OF mud,
but in autumn a teaspoonful OF rain makes
a tub Of mud We heard thunder peal
two weeks ago. That was prophecy of
a poor year for maple sugar but good
year for fruit
30 you know how TO foretell rain with
certainly, he asked. land without going
out of dOorsln Just watch the cock
reaches. When they fly get out your
umbrella. Crickets chirp lively and
spiders come out of their nusts also before
rain. III tell you a curious old saw about
frost. The first frost, so runs the saw,
comes exactly six weeks after we hear the
first katydid There will be as many
frosts in june as there are frogs in Febru'
AIRY. forgot 10 tell you also that rats
and IN &C make much noise before rain.
and horses snuff the air noticeably. Most
of these signs of which ] have spoken
have their origin in experience and oh
servation, and there lie in them much oi
truth