Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 February 1884 — New Weather Predictions—Vennor Improved. [ARTICLE]

New Weather Predictions—Vennor Improved.

An intensely blue sky indicates a temporary absence of clouds. Under other circumstances, again, an intensely blew sky indicates a tornado. When a woman leaves a piece of soap upon the stairs where her husband will tread upon it, it is a dead sure sign of a storm. When the sun rises behind a bank of clouds, and the clouds hang low all around the horizon, and all over the sky, and the air feels damp, and there is,a fine drizzling mist blowing, the indications are there will be rain somewhere in the United States or Canada. When it begins to thunder, look out for lightning. When a man gets up in the night, and feel along the top pantry shelf in the dark, and knocks the big square bottle without any label down to the floor and breaks it, it is a sign there is going to be a dry spell until 7 or 8 o’clock in the morning. * When the cradle begins to vibrate with irregular, spasmodic motions about 1 o’clock in the morning, look out for signals, and try to remember where you put the paregoric the last time you used it. When the youngest boy in the family comes home three hours- after closing of school, with his hair wet and his shirt wrong side out, look out for a spanking breeze. To see the head of the family feeling in his right-hand pocket, then in his left-hand pocket, then in all his vest pockets, then in his hip pockets, then in his coat pockets,'and then at the ceiling, indicates “no change.” If he suddenly stops whistling at the ceiling and expands his face into a broad grimace of delight, it means “unexpected change.” The -weather during the whole of Thanksgiving week * * (*) ? If the com husks are very thdek, the winter will be colder than the summer. If the corn husks are very thin, the summer will be warmer than the. winter. If the corn husks are neither too thin nor too thick, the summer will be warm and the winter will be Hawkey e.