The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-02
His Hair Is a barometer.

Feels a good deal like snow" re-
marked travelling gentleman at the
Albany Hotel to Gabriel Rule of Ban
gor, Ne, a tall, slender. man, who
comes West once a year to look after
some mining properties in Utah, says
the Denver Times.
1T is going to snow" returned Mr..
Rule with confidence.
Yes, that's what the weather man
says" said the t. G.
81 haven't seen any of the weather
mans predictions" remarked Mr.. Rule,
nor have 1 once looked at the sky or
consulted a barometer, yet I'm certain
We will have snow tonight. In fact,
l know it,
Know it?'
Yes, know it-look at my hair"
The travelling gentleman did as he
was hidden. He saw a rather heavy
brown growth that came down over
Mr.. Rules ears in a queer little wave.
Yet there didn't seem to be anything
remarkable in this sight.
Il don't see anything about your
hair that's different from any other
hair, except, may be, it's a little lon
ger than some"
Mr. Rule laughed gently. That's
because you haven't had a chance to
ever, that the ends are beginning to
turn up just over my ears. don't yOu?"
Yes, the other man had noticed that.
We'll an hour ago they were as
straight as strings. In a little while
they will be still more curly. They
are curling now, very gently, even i'm
perceptibly to you, though 1 could tell
it in the dark. 1 can feel them curl
ing"
Feel them?''
Yes my hair is very sensitive;
could equal my hair for noting coming
changes in the weather"
But how do you know it isn't going
to rain?"
Il can tell from the way my hair
moves. When there's rain coming my
hair curls more rapidly and with
greater tension. When there is a
heavy rain coming it kinks up tightly.
This snow that's coming tonight is
going to be light, dry one; l know
that from the way it pops
What, the. snow?"
mo, my hair; lean this way and lis
ten closely"
The gentleman of travel did so, and
heard a faint sound like the swapping
of tiny twigs.
you can hardly hear it," continued
Mr.. Rule, but to me ii is quite loud
whack! whack! whack! like that. It's
the electricity in it, / suppose. Any
way, l have found that indicates dry
cold weather. But the curling tendency
of my hair also means some moisture;
so l have for my equation cold air and
dry air, gradually becoming damper,
which equals light snow"
And in rainy weather does it stay
all crimped up?"
you bet it does; that is, until it
begins to break away. I can always
tell five or six hours beforehand, when
the clear weather is coming"
81 should think you'd find this pc
culiar feature very serviceable to you. "
"Oh, l don't KNOW" said Mr. Rule,
smiling, as he ran his fingers through
his intelligent locks, thereby increas-
ing the snappings of the hairs till
they sounded like diminutive fire crack
ers. "Other people pay more attention
to it than 1 do. Back home my friends
keep tab on the weather by it, and the
Way I'm generally saluted is: 'Gabe,
how's your hair?
"Or it is: 'Gabe, take off your hat
and give us a weather bulletin And
they joke about it a good deal, but,
all the same, they depend on it, and
I'll say this much. that it never gave
false alarm yet"
And Mr. Rule adjusted his hat care
fully on his prophetic thatch.