Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1876 — WEATHER PROBABILITIES. [ARTICLE]

WEATHER PROBABILITIES.

It is given m a matter of import* ant political news, in snch reliable republican newspapers as the Indianapolis Journal, that “third-term clubs are springing up with great rapidity in the South.” The New Orleans Bulletin says “the roll is getting very long.”

Ex-Judge Charles 11. Tost recently presided at a Greenback meeting in Indianapolis, and declared his sympathy lor the cause. There is going to be high political fun in Indiana, when the approaching campaign gets well under way. From present indications the Greenback advocates will carry the State.

During the war a paper that teemed with abuse of the government, of “Lincoln’s hirelings,’’ of the Black Republican Abolitionists who were prosecuting the war, ami of pretty much everybody except those who were in arms against the government, is uow reading lectures on ‘‘true patriotism.” Times have changed, indeed. —KenUand Gazette. Sorely that ought to cause gladness. There is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over the niuety and nine righteous that went not astray.

According to Professor Tice’s guessing there will be cold to very cold weather from the 21st to 31st daya of this month; from the Ist to 7th of February, moderating but variable, with rain or snow; 7th to 11th, cold; lllli to 15th, moderate, with rain or snow; 15th to 19th, variable from cold to very cold; 20th to 25th, warmer, with rain and snow ; 25th to 29th, generally fair but very cold. For the region east of the Mississippi river, on the lakes, and west of the AUcghany mountains, these changes may not always take place for troni one to four days later than is here predicted ; but if the guessing hits that close it will be near enough for people to prepare for the changes and not be caught without fuel when roads are muddy or cold is severe. Professor Tice claims that these predictions arc determined by the scientific application of laws and principles which have been discovered from the observation of meteorological phenomena extending over a period of nearly one hundred years, and he thinks they can be applied with almost, Unerring certainty to the determination of atmospheric changes. Readers of this article will please keep it and note whether the phenomena occur as indicated; and during the year we will publish these predictions on or before the first of every month. If this is a scientific discovery—if the principles and laws of meteorology have really been established —it will certainly prove of inestimable value to the world.