Show Cartons Barometers I An English paper recalls some odd weather indicators that were popular before the days of the scientific barometer ba-rometer When leeches were kept in every chemists shop and often in houses they were constantly observed i served and it was generally noticed that in still weather dry or wet they remained at the bottom of their bottles bot-tles but rose before a change often as much as 24 hours in advance An ingenious doctor had an apparatus by which one of 12 leeches rang a bell when a tempest was approaching approach-ing The frog barometer used in Germany Ger-many and Switzerland consists of ajar a-jar of water a frog and a little wooden wood-en step ladder If the frog comes out and sits on the steps rain is expected ex-pected An early scientific toy and much prized weather glass of the last generation was the old man and woman who foretold the weather by being drawn in their turn from their little hut through the contraction contrac-tion or lengthening of a piece of catgut cat-gut acting on a lever Other indications indica-tions upon which the weather wise have depended are that bees will not fly before a shower that horses are most worried by flies before rain and I that the gossamer rises befpre fine I weather |