Superstitions About The Weather

Popular superstititions about the weather linger long, and in spite of the teachings of scienoe people persist in believing that seaweed hnng up in a backyard will becoine damp at the approach of rain, or that a similar indication ia to befound in the f act thatapig is seen ihewing straw. Mr. Biohard Inwards, the president of the Meteorological society, it is needless to say, has no belief ■whatever in such methods of piophesying the weather. What belief could be more flrmly rooted ín roany people trian the belief that if it rains on St. Switbin's day it will rain for 40 days? "An nnadnlterated fallaoy," snch is what Mr. Inwards oalls it, yet in spite of the eTidence accnmulated upon the subject by the Meteorological office, people go on putting f aith in it as though there veré no snch thing as experience. Theu, again, it is said that a full moon will clear away olouds, and that a ohange of moon on a Saturday or a Sunday is an indication of floods, althongh not a little evidence in favor of either belief has ever been adduced. - London Nev?3.