Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1885 — A Weather Prophet. [ARTICLE]

A Weather Prophet.

It ia possible, according to French authority, to foretell the weather, sometimes ten or twenty hours in advance, by observing and comparing the sounds emitted by a telephone connected by leads withtwo iron bars stock into the ground a few yards apart. In case of a thunderstorm * especially, a noise like that of shivering leaves increases until a flash of lightning occur?, when the sound resembles that of ram or hail falling on grass.