Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1887 — Old-Time Weather Signs. [ARTICLE]

Old-Time Weather Signs.

If cats lick their bodies and trash their faces it will rain. If water-fowl scream more than usual and plunge into the water expect rain. If sea-birds fly toward land and landbirds toward The sea there will be rain. If there are no falling-stars to be seen on a bright summer’s evening you may look for tine weather. If horses stretch out their necks and sniff the air and assemble in the corner of a tield with their heads to leeward, rain. If the smoke from chimneys blows down, or if soot takes fire more readily than usual or falls down the chimney into the grate, expect rain. 1 f old and rheumatic people complain of their corns and joints and limbs once broken at thd place of their union, there will be foul or wet weather. If many gnats are seen in spring expect a fine autumn; if gnats fly in compact bodies in the beams of the setting sun there will be fine weather. If ditches and drains smell stronger than usual expect rain; and when tobacco smoke seems denser and-iflore powerful expect wet weather. If spiders, in spinning their webs, make the terminating filaments long, we may, in proportion to their length, conclude that the weather will be serene and continue so for ten or twelve days.