Show LEECH AS WEATHER PROPHET those familiar with small creatures habits can foretell changes that are at hand an excellent weather prophet can be made by placing a leech in a glasl jar of water mater if it the weather Is to continue fine the leech lies motionless at the bottom of the jar and rolled together in a spiral form if it Is to rain min either before or after noon it will be found to haye have crept up to the top ot of its lodging where it will remain till the weather neather Is settled it if we are to have wind the poor prisoner gallops through his limpid habitation with amazing swiftness and seldom rests till it begins to blow hard it if a remarkable storm of thunder and rain Is to succeed the leech tor for some days before lodges almost continually without water and gives itself up to violent throes and connul sive nice like motions in frost as in clear summer weather it lies constantly at the bottom and in snow as in rainy weather it pitches Us its dwelling on the very mouth of the jar |