Show superstitions about the weather popular about the weather linger long oud and in spite of the teachings of scienie enlo people persist in believing that seaweed b bung aug up in a backyard will become damp at tho the approach of rain or that a similar indication is to be found in ili the he fact that a pig is seen chewing straw mr air richard inwards tho the president pre eDt of the society it is needless to say eay has no belief whatever in such methods metho 13 of prophecy ing tile the weather what belief could be more firmly rooted in ill many people than the belief that if it rains raina ou on st at ins day it will rain for 40 days an unadulterated fallacy such is ig what mr inwards calls it yet in spite of the evidence accumulated upon tho subject by the meteorological office people go on putting faith in it as though there vere no buch thing as experience then again it is said that a full moon will clear away clouds and that a change of moon on a saturday or a sunday is au an indication of foods although not a lit tie evidence in favor of either bolie has ever been adduced loudon london news |