Show The Muskrat as a WentherGuesaer HACKSNSXCK N L October HThe drouth still continues in New Jersey All the retail ice dealers have sold their stocks in this part of our State and they are now buying from the east by the car load to supply their customers Some gentleman writing from Pike County your State says that the muskrats musk-rats are building very larga houses and he says that is an indication of very cold weather The rats do cot build houses simply to protect them from the cold but for the double purpose of protection pro-tection against cold and water and whenever there there are floods approaching ap-proaching the rats will build a second story on top of the first leaving a small hole in the center through which they go up when the water rises My attention atten-tion was called to this fact several years ago by one of our Judges who lives near a large meadow In February 1881 the rats went hastily to work and built another story on their houses and in about one week the whole village was flooded Their instinct is more reliable than all the scientific instruments in use and I feel confident that the farmers throughout through-out your State would do a wise thing to repair every dam and open the ditches for there surely will be floods during the next two weeks There have been very severe storms this week down in Texas and up in Michigan Next week the storms will advance eastward and I expect our drouth will end Sunday the 17thwill enter warm and partly cloudy Monday Mon-day 18 cloudy and rainy Tuesday 19 brisk northwest winds and cooler weather Wednesday 20 clear and frosty Thursday 21 warmer and faggy Friday 22 clear and warm SaturdaV 23 unusually warm and foggyPittsburg Dispatcn |