Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1895 — Wild Geose and the Weather. [ARTICLE]

Wild Geose and the Weather.

London Daily News. It is often said that the unusua'ly early appearance of the autumn migrants, the fieldfares and redwings, the ducks and geese, and the waders, whose name is legion, is a portrait of a hard winter. It was the opinion of Michelet that meteorology had much to learn from the movements of birds. “Would to heaven,” he says, “that Napoleon, in September, 1811, had taken note of the premature migration of the north! From the storks and the cranes he might have secured the most trustworthy information. In their premature departure he might have divined the imminency of a severe and terrible winter. They hastened towards the south, and he — ■ he remained at Moscow.” Hot Head—Then I’m a liar? Cool Head Lr-A)n the contrary, my dear fellow, you | have just spoken the truth.

When a rain-storm is impending, swallows fly close to the earth. This is because the insects they pursuS are then near the ground, to escape the moisture of the upper air. □ Two young men found the sermon rather dull in a church at Belle Grove, Pa., and became interested in a revolver which one of them had drawn from his pocket. The pistol accidentally exploded and the sermon suddenly’ceased. As a punish ment the two young men had to sit for threq Sundays on the rostrum with the minister.