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moisture in it — being dissipated by heat — that it is very uncertain when and 

 where it will precipitate, while during the spring months the storms traveling on 

 a lower line, and passing on an average of about a four days' period it is much 

 easier to predict rain and to make a schedule of time for storms which, to the 

 ignorant, may seem very wonderful. But after all even during the spring months 

 there is no more certainty that a storm-center will follow in the exact line of the 

 one that preceded it than during mid-summer. The line of the storm-centers of 

 this year are not like those of last year or of any preceding year. It is simply 

 impossible for any great degree of similarity in this respect. 



Probably nothing tells so much for or against a person as their own words, 

 and every person who puts his thoughts upon the printed page should be willing to 

 abide by them. If he is in the right fair quotations therefrom cannot hurt him, 

 while if he be in error, there can be no stronger proof brought to bear against 

 him. 



In his almanac Mr. Vennor says that "July bids fair to be excessively hot 

 and tempestuous, the hottest days probably being the 4th, 5th 9th, nth, i6th, 

 17th, and the 25th and 26th. Thunder and lightning storms are likely to Occur 

 in many localities, on the ist, 5th, 8th, 9th, 15th, 17th or i8th, 27th or 29th. 

 Should frosts occur during the month the 13th, 21st, 23d and 31st are likely dates 

 for such. The month will probably terminate with cool evenings and nights." 



In this statement localities are not mentioned ; no reasonable localities, say 

 western, middle or eastern sections of the United States and Canada, and yet 

 one who knows anything about the weather system of the globe, well knows that 

 all of the above weather might happen in one section and not in another; for ex- 

 ample from the 17th to i8th of August it was reported very hot in the northwest, 

 yet it was not hot in the eastern portions of the country, indeed it was the while 

 getting cool and on the 19th it was quite cool for summer weather. The reason 

 for this was that the new " low" of the i6th started in the northwest, making it 

 hot there, but this "low" did not, for some reason unknown to us, continue on 

 a high line, but as it advanced eastward took a southeast course making it quite 

 cool in the northeast. It passed the locality of Washington without any precipi- 

 tation, and then followed the line of the coast in a northerly direction — on the 

 20th centering off the coast of New England and again making the eastern por- 

 tion of the United States very warm. 



Not satisfied with the statement in his almanac, during the latter part of June 

 Mr. Vennor issues another statement, wherein we were to have heavy rains from 

 the 20th to the 22nd of July in New York and vicinity. Between the 10th and 

 15th an exceedingly hot term. Well it was hot generally throughout the country 

 on these days, but it was also as hot almost from the very first of July and right 

 along until the i8th, when for reasons most beautifully revealed on the weather 

 map it was a little cooler. But Mr. Vennor made no mention of this in any of 

 his statements for July. He did say, however, " within a few days from the close 

 of the month, probably about the 27th or 28th, a cool wave will occur." Because 

 we had the cooler weather about the i8th, it was a common thing to hear ignor- 



