Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-27
ALL ARE WEATHER WISE
HERE is A COMPENDIUM Or MEMS
COLLECTIVE WISDOM.

Sailors Know the Most-Landsmen Have
to Piece Out Their knowledge by the
Help of Administration Signs Deter
mine the Weather, SO 1t Is Said.
Nearly everybody processes to be wealth
err wise. Everybody tells everybody else
what sort of weather may be expected, and
in nine cases out of ten everybody is wrong,
What is commonly called the power of
fOretelling the weather is only the result of
repeated observations on the comparative
frequency with which certain effects ac-
company one another Hence it is that
agriculturists, shepherds, gardeners,
coachmen-and above all, fishermen and
sailors-are so much more weatherwise
than the mechanic or citizen, and from
the constant necessity they are under of
studying the minutest indications they ar
rive Mt the power of foretelling future
changes with q certainty far exceeding the
landsman's comprehension.
In the absence of that tact, that quick
prescienCe of atmospheric changes pos
sessed by the class of persons before men
toned, and which can only be acquired by
similar discipline, the common observer
must have barometer to aid him in form
ing guess whether he should take an UNI
brella or great coat with him, or whether
he may go forth unprcpared for anything
but warmth and sunshine. But indica-
tions of the weather are not only to be
found in barOmetrical changes. The clouds
furnish data, and animals evidence every
change; and he who sets to work to study
these things gains something more than
weather wisdom-he acquires the habit of
observation,
A sudden fall of the barometer in the
spring or autumn indicates Wind in the
summer, during very hot weather, a thun-
der storm may he expected; in winter n
sudden fall after frost of some continuance
indicates II change of wind, with thaw and
rain But ina continued frost a rise of the
mercury indicates approaching snow.
SIGNS FROM THE SKY.
When violent gale has followed n sud
den fall of the mercury, it begins to rise
again very rapidly, especially about the
season of the cquinoXes In this case the
gale will not last long. No rapid fluctua-
tions of the barometer are to he interpreted
as indicating either dry or wet weather; it
is only the slow, steady and continued rise
or fall that is to be attended to in this re-
spect. A rise of mercury late in the
autumn, after long continuance of wet
and windy weather, generally indicates n
change of wind to the northern quarters
and the approach of frost,
The clouds have always been an index Of
the weather If the sky be clear after the
continuance of fair weather, light streaks
of cloud appearing are the first indications
of change If these clouds accumulate and
descend into lower regions of the atmos-
phere rain commences. When the sun ap-
pears to be setting in fog, with dark and
crimson streaks in sharp, well defined
lines, wind and rain and stormy weather
may he expected. In hot summer weather
the sky during the finest days is often
loaded with masses of cloud, clear, rounded
and brilliantly edged with light. With
such a sky no immediate change may be
appreheuded If, however, toward evening
these clouds congregate in the horizon and
rise upward with sharp outlines, and an
unusual stiffness and closeness is felt in
the air, il is a sure sign of an approaching
thunder storm,
4 greenish tinge in the gray evening is a
sure precursor of wet, but whatever may
be their form, color and character, an in
crease in the clouds, particularly toward