Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1909 — A Novel Barometer. [ARTICLE]

A Novel Barometer.

The inhabitants of southern Chile are said to fortell the weather by means of a strange barometer. It consists of the cast-off shell of a crab. The dead shell is white in fair, dry weather; but, indicating the approach of moist atmosphere by the appearance of small red spot's; as the moisture in the air increases it becomes entirely ted and remains- so throughout the rainy season. '