ANGER AND ENUMERATION. THE RAIN PREDICTOR

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1274, 10 January 1883, Page 3

ANGER AND ENUMERATION.

THE RAIN PREDICTOR

" A Danbury man named Rubens recently saw a, statement tjiat. counting one hundred when tempted to speak an angry 1 word; would savo a iiian a great deal of trouble,. This, statement funded a little "singular at first, but the more hq read it over, the more he becanie;iinpressed wit)} i|, and finally concluded to adopt it. Next door to .Rubens 'lives' a man who had made five distinct attempts in the past fortnight to secure a dinner, of green peas, by.elcction day, and evety i time he had been retarded by Rubens' hen,; The next morning after Rubens had made his resolution he found his fifth attempt to have miscarried. Then he called on JRub'ens./ Hesajd '•What jn;thunder do by letting your hens tear up-my garden f '' Rubens was promoted to call him a mudßn'6oVa new name just coming into general: use,; but he remembered his resolution, put down his rago and meekly observed—..'Qnfy two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight—' neighbor, who had : been eying this answer, with a :great deal of suspicion'broke in again,—."'. v .f'Whyj don't you answer my question. you.'rascil 1',',.'... .. ;But still: Reubens maintained: his equanimity, arid weiiton'with thetest, i'i "Nine/teii, eleven/twelve,.thirteen/ foui-teen, fifteen.sixteen-r-, ! - ( J-JBe mad neighbor stared harder than eyeri'M!.':-;!. 1 ' |' '. ,' '. :

■',; Seventeen, feighteeiij nineteen, twenty jniean aktink,' : ' : tlio m§. neTghbp),'backing towards,the ftßft.V*.' ■;„ .„,.; tf , i ;...?r!j.i'.'.i ; yßeuhfa's at this oharge, Ijufclfei ■ 'va;..«...-;w• ■ .i?ffl*H% twen ty;jwV; .twenty At tniazigure the neighbor got up on % n 'wme baste, bu,t suddenly thinking of bis peas,'he opened his mouth—. «Tot mtwijlow-HTtd rtwcal, for. two

■ cents I could knook your ovyr a barn,%d I would-''' iiM ?'"[ soyen, rupted Reubens, ' Wonty-nine, thirty* 1 1 ' Hereto' neighbor; broke, loathe,' house, m and ; entering it,' Violently' slammed,\the door- behind •him,-buf Beubens did not dare'let ; up on the enumeration, and so ho stood 'out there alone iri'iis..own'yard] and.;kept on, counting, while his burning cheeks and flashing oyes eloquently affir'med-his judgnjenV "When lie .into'the,' eighties hwwifa to,t door in. some alarm!

man, 'what is the matter with you fshe said. r ~'Do.come into.the house.! : ; ; ' ;:,l . ; ""' ' '

, ..But he ilidn't let up, She came out and clung tremblingly to . him, but ho onlyilooked into her eyes aud said— . ' Ninety eight, ninety-nine, one Hundred —go into the. : house,: old woman, or Til bust ye!' .= ' * «vJtawl she papijr*.. ;.,.J

, 1 ' W'A" ' «>* Scotland (aaya an English pnpeO, has drawn attention to what promises to., uo ftji unpurtant contribution to meteorological aoiauce. •'flie dwly weather charts and forecasts with which the publip. is so familiar aro doubtless of ({rent service { bot';if;M?flll..ltßpwn. that the prerisioQa. are. riot only iQmetimer incorrect, but m' v ? x ' 01 "tal beyond twenty-foiiflinura.; Wi'll| ; for slime tiiuo past optiotiiQß! have been pocket ipectroscopes, by means ot whioh person's may ascertain the probability or otherwise of raiii falling. All one ra'to do ii, to look ,at ithe. sky jx U - 8 8U ® n V- ,Bil ,I,t ' en *i in addition to the prismaticcolors rind the thin solar-originated lines, he may see a dark,band strctobing across the spectrum, Tow band js designated the " rain-band," and is'caused .by'the presence'of watery Vapour in th_e atmosphere. In proportion to Iho intensity of happßS qf this band ip tup quantity "f. wqter in suspension When the spectroscope, registers (I or Jj it is fouiid that no rain falls; but when the register is SJ, rai« begins to fall, m i when jit may bo very heavy, This ingeqibifs honker, does not enable its • possessor-to fowjob beyotii a few .hours; but the discovery; -maddli by Professor Smyth is likely 1 to extend" the jange of previsions very considerably. On the morniii ß «f 4th September,, y/hen 0, Prefessnr, Smyth, says lie was surprised to find iu a larger instrument that almost every trace of rain-baud was gouo, '.'.l not ouly felt fiur6 of no rain falling either next day, '.'.the, Professor writes, "or for »evoral days after, but the weather must, be coming on colder as well, Therefore it was that, I took .the step of: instantly writiiig. as I did to a local paper [the Scotsman], .promising the perplexod fiirmera dry weather at last, llioiHi opposed to the forecasts of the Meteoro- 1 logical Office, and meteorologists in various parts of the country have expressed lo Pt'ofo33orSmyth their satisfaction with the provision.