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department of human activity has its folk-lore, as every phase of 
human life has its antiquities. The chief signal officer of the U. 
. Army has done a lasting favor to anthropology by including 
among the “Signal Service Notes” Lieutenant H. H. C. Dun- 
woody’s collection of weather proverbs. The critics have bees 
making merry over this book, and asking General Hazen whether 
the prophecies concerning the weather have been taken from the 
pages commencing with: 
** When the ass begins to bray, 
Be sure we shall have rain that day ?” 
Of course not, for these proverbs were the guide-book of the ent- 
ics’ own kindred down to the establishment of the Weather 
Bureau. In this octavo volume of 148 pages, the work of ie | 
300 collectors, we have about all that is worth gathering ® 
weather lore. In the letter of transmittal, Lieutenant pr 
woody points out that many weather prognostics “ express a 3 
crude form the meteorological conditions likely to follow, i 
they have resulted from close observation. inc 
Dunwoody’s work opens with a discussion on weather p i 
etc., arranged in alphabetical order under some 1mp? Sadia 
Part 11 gives a conipllating of instrumental and other local rae 
tions of approaching storms. Rhode 
Canonicus MemoriAL.—On the 21st Sept’ en 
Island Historical Society erected a monument to t eb: vating 
Canonicus. A short time since some workmen 1n Th depth 
a sewer in Providence, brought to the surface, from as erect 
eight feet, a large boulder of granite, and this has memorate Of 
in the “glen” of the North Burial-ground, to com n 
life and virtues of the great sachem. 
ABORIGINAL AMERICAN AUTHORS.—Ât the ras © 
tional des Américanistes, Dr. D. G. Brinton rea <a ae 
has been enlarged and printed, since his return, 1. 
lly those in Ss pai | 
history of literature. yeyin | 
to the mechanical execution but to the matter. such thing S 
be startled when they are told that there 15 any : : 
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book written by an Indian. We have all heard d languag 7 
