LOOK OUT FOR SQUALLS

Dunstan Times, Issue 1041, 31 March 1882, Page 3

LOOK OUT FOR SQUALLS

Thu Burlington Ifawkege gives the following instructions how to foretell weather : - It is an easy matter to forecast like Professor Tice and Mr Venuor, it people will only gi-e their minds to it. By closely reading and studying the predictions of these great weather-breeders we have doduced the following rules, by which they made all their forecasts- hindcasts; of the weather are not made until the next day : An intensely blue sky indicates a temporary absence of clouds. Under other circumstances, again, an intensely blue sky indicates a tornado. When a woman leaves a piece of soap on the stairs where hei husband will tread on it, it is a dead sure sign of a storm. When the sun rises behind a hank of clouds, and the clouds hang low all around the horizon, and all over the sky, ami the air feels damp and there is a fine drizzling mist blowing, tho indications are there will be rain somewhere in the United States or Canada. When it begins to thunder, look out tor lightning. When a man gets up in the night and'feels along the top pantry shelf .in the dark, and knocks the big square bottle without any lab 1 down to the door and breaks it, it is a sign there is going to be a dry spell until 7 or 8 o'clock in the morning. When the Spring millinery openings are advertised, look for bright sunny weather all round the house, with treacherous calms and rising barometer, indicative of sudden tempests and mean temperature. Wh«n the cradle begins to vibrate with irregular spasmodic motions about 1 o’clock in the morning, look out for signals, and try to remember where you put the paregoric tho last time yon used it. When the youngest boy in the family com-s home three hours after school hours with his hair wet and his shirt wrongside out, look out far a spanking breeze. To see the head of the family feeling in his right-liand pocket, then in his left-hand pocket, then in all his vest pockets, and then look at the ceiling indicates “no change.” If he suddenly stops whistling at the ceiling and expands his face into a broad grimace of delight, it means “unexpected chance.” if the Spring bonnet comes home trimmed on the right side for the wearer’s seat in church, and has two more sprigs and three more dandelions than the bonnet of the woman in the next pew, it is “set fair.” An unusual number of spiders presages a very mild or a very open winter, as the caso may be. If the corn-husks are very thick the winter will be colder than the summer. If the corn-husks are very thin, the summer will be warmer than the winter. If the corn-husks are neither too thin noi too thick, the summer will be warm and the winter will be cold. If the weather prophet predic‘B a rainy season, and it happens to rain away out in Calaveras County, and is as dry as a bone all over the rest of America this rain must be set down to the credit of the weatner breeder, and all the dry counts for nothing. If the ~ eather breeder predicts a very dry month, and the raging floods sweep all the country in one wild drowning deluge, except Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts, the people must say sure enough old Vennor said it was going to be dry this month. Still it is just as well to brar in mind when you read the wild prognostications of Mr Venuor and his great rival that a rain 1500 miles square no more makes a rainy day on this continent than a fly speck on the dome of the eapitol makes the district of Columbia or even all of the dome black. Anybody can say “there will be r:\ia and thuu erstonn- and oyclom-a in the United States during July,” and it would be a mighty s ife thing to net in mey on. What we want, what the cou.tiy clamours for, is a man who can tell ns when and where the cyclone is g-'iug to strike, and whom it will hit. Ami up to date that man hasn’t said a wonl ah-nit the weather.