OCR Text |
Show TELL THE COMING WEATHER. Observant Persons Need Never Bo Caught Napping. "If tho chlckwccd and scarlot pimpernel pim-pernel expand their tiny petals, rain need not bo oxpectcd for a fow hours," says a writer. "Decs work with redoubled re-doubled energy Just beforo a rain. If tho flics aro unusually persistent cither In tho houso or around stock thoro Is rain In tho air. Tho cricket sings at tha approach of cold weather. Squlrrols store a largo supply of nuts, the husks of corn nro unusually thick nnd tho buds of deciduous trees havo o firmer protecting coat If a solvere so-lvere winter Is nt hand. If tho poplar or quaking asp leavos turn up the under un-der Bldo rain will soon follow. "If tho camphor bottlo becomes roily It Is going to storm. When it clears settled woothcr may bo expected. This Idea has seomlngly boon utilized in thg manufacture of somo of our cheap baromoters. Tho main trouble Is, thoy seldom foretell tho chango until nbout tho tlmo It arrives. "Last, but not least, tho rheumatics can always toll It 'In their bones' when a storm la approaching, nnd ot this prognostication tho octogenarian ' of to-day Is as firm an odvocato as wero his forofathurs." |