Show natured barometers BIRO METERS brewto foretell a shower or i vi natural sips r nom st rames I 1 I 1 barometers are tb onla of which country folis have any knowledge th ere chev majy consult at all and trev know then by heart almost all field wor era are weather wie aid their on this head has no about it the asmer has been beatea about by wind and weather that he himself is to atmospheric conditto conditio condi tio prevent gisob serving its influx n ce on the things about him before rain ilia dogs grow sleep and dull the cat con tautly ina berstell bers telf geese gaggle in the pond fowls and pigeons go early to roost and the farm horses grow A the ants are all berryand bur scurry rf in hi t her awl thither spiders n the walls toads emerge from the IT i bole and the garden paths are everywhere covered slugs and snails when the cat firich rave it is an infallible eign of rain As the rain nearer pes cocks cry and fangs croak clamorously from abe ditcher signs which almon every ono has beard who lives in in abe coultry courtry couR try though one of the aurea ways of pr Ai cating weather changes 6 by observing the babits of snails snails never drink ila imbibe in boisture buring rain and it afterward they are seldom et en abroad except before rain when they commence climbing trees and getting upon the leaves the tree snail I 1 S so sensitive to weather that it will to climb two d r before ibe rilin comes if I 1 d is ft be prolonged the snail seeks the on a er t odthe leaf betit short or fig b t rain is coming it stays on tile outside there is another species yellow before rain aud bluish after indicate changes by dents dints and protuberances resembling tubercles tub ercles these begin to shok themselves ten days before rhin i and when it comes the pores of the tubercles tub ercles open and draw in the moisture in others agaid deep identa lions i b e OR tit 1 t tl 1 1 head between the ans at d K t he jointure of the tail appear it few days before the storm one of the simplest of naturel barometers bato meters is a spiders sp ideis web when thare is a prospect of wind or rain the spider shortens the filaments by abich its yet is sue bained and lealta it in this state As the weather is variable if it mee its threads it im a sign of calm the duration of which way be judged by the length to which the threads are let out ir the spider remains is it sign of rain if it keeps at work during the rain the downpour will not last long and will be followed by fine weathers observation ties taught that the spider changes in its web every twenty four hours and that if such change are the sunset the night well Us clear and beautiful the constant of the gran woodpeckers cry be n b it 1 rain pie and rein fowl cock is a pro v ancial name shared by this bird and the thrush the latter often is it through gales of wind aud ra in blid is also applied 0 the field fare the abhorrence in which art ners hot the swallow like abo rm petrel is lvell known its a is believed to denote wild little bir d is the mother carels careys chicken of sailors and is also called storm finch water witch hayg an old author flying tp and down in the evening eveni Dg as if doubtful where to refit pre tag esome evil approach irig weather a legend as old as vir 1 though devoid of tn dation iz gulls in genera 1 child ren who live by the sea say sea gull sit on the rand it nev ergood weather hile youre on the land and fisher folks know that when th 0 bea mew fly out early and far to seaward fair weather ma be expected va scotch the dram fingor the mille indicates airy weather and frost at an d gilbert remarks that wood have been observed to be M listless against anomy f 01 catbe r t ahil according another author their early arival and con inked abode foretells a liberal harvest 11 in wiltshire the coming of tile cotterel betokens be tokens frost and snow and there is a p rov erb that the booming of the bittern will be followed by rain or worse in the win d geese go out 15 sea they say the weather will be fine but it toward the hill stormy the sawlike saw like notes of the great titmouse lit mouse is said to foretell rain that of flie in the south af france so mucus store I 1 set by the witti loor or magpie that if it builds its aest ell the of abree tile folks expect a of calm but if lower down winds anti tempests lire sure to follow when 1 I ek daw is seel to stand do on e of vanes tower at wells it is said that rain I 1 is sure to follow wi i th in tw en ty four hour a wells m ubbe R in germany dwellers lack faith in the skylarks sky lArka aang as announcing fine weather bat when the lark and the cuckoo baug together they know that dumn ter has win e jh a r 0 bin buzzard I 1 aaser wing starling a p d a number of 0 birds ire said to fo ritell changes we have noticed that in nearly all the species latue d the various calle and cri q are cl ae ly connected with I 1 the bird food supply |