The Topeka state journal., 1902-10-01
HERE 1T is.
All About Weather from Gov
ernment Authority.
Can Tell Whether Winter Will
Be a Hard One.
RULES LAID DOWN.
They Shed Much Light on the
Future.
What the Various Signs Now
Visible Indicate.
RULES LAID DOWN.

Observer Jennings is busy asserting
his brand of fall and winter weather
and getting them on the shelves ready
to fill orders. He has been studying the
United States weather bureau book of
proverbs and he finds that according to
the proverbs he can prove up on most
any style of weather at most any time.
This book of proverbs is the only OIL
ciaI publication of the kind and it has
been thoroughly tested by the experts
before it was placed in the hands of
the observers. Some of the proverbs re-
hating to October are as follows:
IF we don't get our Indian summer
in October or November we will get it
in the winter"
"A good nut year good corn year"
LAS the wind and the weather is at
the time of the equinox so will be the
wind and weather generally during the
following three months"
Early falling leaves indicate an early
fall"
Much rain in October. much wind in
December"
IF october brings heavy frosts and
winds, then will January and February
be mild
when it freezes and SHOWS in Oc-
tober, January will bring mild weather;
but If it is laundering and heat tighten
ing. the winter will resemble April in
temper
WARN October, cold February"
LAS the weather is in October, so will
it be the next March"
Der and passes without a frost a frost
will not occur until the same time in
October
"The month that comes in good viii
go out bad"
when birds and badgers are fat in
October, a cold winter is expected"
"A double husk on corn indicates g
severe winter.
IF corn is hard to husk expect a
''The whiteness of a goose's breast
bone indicates the amount of snow dur
ing the winter"
IF domestic geese walk east and fly
west, expect cold weather"
These proverbs are double copper
distilled and tested at all degrees of
Fahrenheit. The first one, about In
dian summer in October or November.
is true If that special, made TO order
Kansas summer does not arrive during
those months it will positively have to
arrive during the winter if it arrives at
all. This is year when there are
plenty of nuts, if you know where to
find them, and there is plenty of corn.
Score for that proverb. The wind and
weather was good and bad during the
equinox, and good and bad wind ami
weather may be expected in October.
November and December.
Early falling leaves indicate an early
fall Good. True as gospel The leaves
generally fall in the fall. The people
will have to wait and see if there is
much rain in October and then be pa
tient until December to see if there is
much wind. They will necessarily have
to wait to see about the October wealth
er governing January, February and
Ndsrch.
September managed to struggle
through with or without a frost, just
as you please. Some people in some
places say there was frost, and other
people in other places say there was
not. John Curran says the Craddock
meeting at the Auditorium in September
was not frost, and NJ Albaugh says
It was. There you are.
October came in good and must
therefore go out bad, or the proverb will
be slightly in error. There is only one
badger in Shawnee county. He belongs
to the Sells & Sterne circus, and he is
Rat. Therefore, a cold winter. Some
corn husks are double and some are
single Take your choice. Corn il
hard to husk this fall. Everyone who
has tried it says so. In fact, corn is
always hard to husk. 1t is not exactly
an amusement Therefore the winter
win be hard If the first breast bone
of goose you examine does not an
nounce the kind of weather you want,
get another goose, cook it thoroughly,
eat it-all but the breast bone-and
then read the oracle. If at first YOU
don't succeed, try, try another goose.
Also, If the geese do not want to walk
east, make them walk east. Shoe them
with an apron or your hat, and if you get
them to fly out of a hop, skip and a
jump sell them to a museum for
wonder.
These weather proverbs, and the rest
in the book, are like laws. If the first
citations you find do not suit YOU hunc
for those that do. You cannot fail to be
satisfied. Jennings has the book for
anyone to refer to who wishes to settle
q bet or decide the color of breast bones
Today's forecast, sent out by the gov
ernment regardless of proverbs IS
Probably showers tonight or Thurs
day" The wind this morning was
southeast, blowing eight miles an hour
The minimum temperature was AZ. The
hourly temperatures recorded by the
government thermometer today were as
follows:
o'clock-.......43l II O'clock 81
8 o'clock 12 O'clock x 81
O'clock n,clncl e.