Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-10-28
THE WEATHER AND THE
MONTHS.

THE WEATHER AND THE
MONTHS.
THIS is what the old folks thought.
If January be warm or windy, March
and May will be cold. A warm day on
the first of the year was always thought
unlucky. Says sixteenth-century
poet of the North Country
Twill be wnterly weather to the kalends o.
May.
A wet February was regarded as the
precursor of a fine Summer, and ii was
the custom in some of the old country
churches to 'pray for rain" about the
feast of st. Valentine. One old coup
let runs
All the ..Iontns in the year
Curse fair Februeer.
and there was a saying in the Vale of
White Horse, In Berkshire: when
gnsts dance in February, the farmer
becomes poor"
There is an old proverb still current
among the farmers in the Staffordshire
moorlands:
n WEI march makes a SAD harvest.
According to q tradition familiar
throughout provincial England the
weather at the beginning and at the
end of March is always transposed.
Hence the old saying, "1f March comes
in like lion, it goes ont like lamb"
Very lucky, according to the old
farmers, was cold April. In Worces-
tershire, about Pershore and Evesham,
they say prophetically, If not poetic
ally
A cold April
The barn Will I'LL.
A warm May is considered bad for
health. Hence the old saying in Bed
fordshire:-
a hot May makes a fat churchyard.
That the weather in May is treacher
ous-a bright sun and a cold wind
often bearing each other company-is
well known, and that old physician was
sagacious whoI used to say to his
patients
Till May be out
Change not a clout.
Rain in June is deemed fortunate.
In Shropshire, there Is a well known
saying
A good leak in JuneJ
Sets ali in tune.
July is chiefly noted for the old ira
dition about st. Swithin's Lay.
st. Swithln's Day. II thou dost rain,
For forty days it Will Iemain:
st. Swithin's Day, II thou be fair,
For forty days, twill rain nae mair.
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there's a saying that when it rains on
st. Swithin's day, it is the Saint christ.
ening the apples. The shepherds around
Banbury say that when in August the
wind has been south two or three days,
and it suddenly grows hot, and you see
clouds arise with great white tops
like towers" there will be thunder and
rain very soon.
In September, the Scotch folk attach
great importance to the weather on
Holy Roodday. An old rhyme says
Il dry be the bucks horn
On HolyroOd morn
'Tis worth a kist Of gold
But II wet 1t be seen
Ere Holyrood cen
Bad harvest Is f0retold-
On the 30th October is st. Luke's
Day, and often brings a short spell of
WdTlu WtdtutT NuiCu 10 huOWu hs SOt.
Luke's little Summer"
Ice and cold in November, are said
to ensure warm weather about Christ
mas. "If," says Yorkshire proverb,
"the ice bear a man before Christmas,
1t will not bear a mouse after" and the
Buckinghamshlre folk have a saying
that there will be food at Christmas
'if there is Ice in November that will
bear a duck"
Thunder in December, is a sign of
fine weather after. At Coleshill, in
Warwickshire, the farmers use to say
Christmas thunder
Rich mans food and poor mans hunger.
This means that fine weather at Christ
mas is not to be desired, either On ac-
count of health or husbandry. So they
say at Bewdley-
A green Christmas makes fat churchyard
which saying, however, is, like most
other weather lore, not borne out by
the returns of the Registrar General,
which if less poetical and romantic are
much more reliable, and much more
suited to the soberminded folk of this
practical nineteenth century.
FREDERICK W. SEWARD, son of the
late William II. Seward. has finished
the biography of his father. He has
been engaged upon the work q long
time.
The most prominent of the surviving
Union generals are Schofield, Buell.,
Rosecrans, Butler, Pope, Banks,
Howard and Slocum.
GEORGE F. RooT, who wrote ssThe
Battle Cry of Freedom" Tramp,
Tramp, Tramp" and "The Vacant
Chair" is living at an advanced age In
Chicago.
Falling of the hair is the result OF in
action Of the glands or roots of the
hair, OF . morbid state Of the scalp,
which may be eursd By Halls Hair Re
newer.