Roosevelt Standard | 1917-03-07 | Page 2 | Living Barometer

living barometer aleece A leech confined la in a glass jar din ter will prove an excellent talk 1 prophet if the weather Is to ab fine the leech lies motionless at t si bottom of the vial and rolled toge in a spiral form it if it Is to rain I 1 ilia eide before or after noon it I 1 la bidi have crept up to the top 0 of its a lod 4 V and there remains till the settled it if we are to have wind and pa ts poor prisoner gallops through Us ile to pid ald habitation with amazing and seldom rests till it begins to vw bi biard ard if a remarkable storm 0 of Os der and rain Is to succeed lor for vat sm days before the leech lodges ilex continually without water and lim itself up to violent throes and conr coari siv ellke motions in ill frost as in da summer bummer weather it lies colls constantly tautly r the bottom and in snow as fa a als 1 I weather it pitches its dw dwelling ellino oa 21 i t very mouth of the vial