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 tonictil Register, Vol. XII, Fig. 1024. 



VENNOR PREDICTS A BAD SUMMER. 



Veanor, the Canadian weather prophet, 

 was written to concerning the significance of 

 the recent aurora. In his answer he says : 



" The approacliing summer will be cold and 

 wet over a very considerable portion of the con- 

 tinent, south and west. He should not be sur- 

 prised should each month for the remainder 



of the year bring frosts. In past years bril- 

 liant auroras at tliis time in April at Toronto, 

 New York and more southern points, have 

 most invariably been succeeded by cold and 

 wet summers." 



It is becoming a serious question whether, 

 after all, Vennor may not be sometliing of a 

 weather prophet. His prophecies up to the 

 present date (June Glh) have come much 



miner the true .state of tlie weather "than a 

 goose is to a turkey," hard-sholled literalists 

 to the contrary uotwitlistanding. No iirophe- 

 cics, perhaps, liave ever come literally true, 

 from the beginning of history down to the 

 present time, and perhaps never will, nor is it 

 necessary that they ever nlioiild. Of course, if 

 the above predictions of Vennor come literally 



