WEATHER SIGNS OF THE RUSSIAN MOUJIKS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1670, 26 April 1884, Page 4

WEATHER SIGNS OF THE RUSSIAN MOUJIKS.

Following are somo of the weather signs of the Russian uioujiks, who have for oyer 1000 years studied the meteorological significance of the actions of mice, cats, lobsters, fish, dogs, swallows, Bwans, ducks, chickens, smoke, and acorns : If sparrows are* busy about their nests, or fly in flocks, the weather will be clear and fair. If swans fly southward quite lato in the season, say tho end of September, tho fall will bo warm and prolonged. If the swallows fly near tho ground, there will be rainy or windy weather. If chicks seek shelter, the weather will be wet. If chickens and other fowls pick their feathers,"there will bo cloudy and damp weather. If, during severe frosts, roosters crow very early, the weather will be mots moderate, or even warm. When ducks bathe and quack, there Buroly will be rain, and when they are quiet there will be a thunderstorm. If geese bathe it will rain. If a cat scratches for a warm place there will be cold weather. If a cat scratches a door, table, or other object with its claws, there will bo windy and snowy weather. If dogs roll in the winter there will besuow; if in tho summer there will be rain. If mice make their nests above the ground in tho ricks the fall will be rainy and prolonged, If they make their nests under the ricks upon the ground, the spring will bo lair. If they make their nests before the crop is reaped, rainy weather will begin in August, and the fall be bad. Pish appear on the surface of water before rain, and go to bottom before a strong wind, Lobsters crawl upon the banks before rainy weather. If oak lands grow plentiful, the following winter will be severe, and the summer fruitful, If smoke sinks to the ground when there is no wind, in winter it will snow and in summer it will ra'n, If smoke rises, even during bad weatder, fair weather will follow.