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better than we know them by reason.  And even some men are meteorologists by instinct [[strikethrough]] regarding [[/strikethrough]] in regard to the changes of weather.  Some very gouty men are very excellent weather barometers.  And so too are the victims of chilblains, both male and female, if not good hygrometers, nevertheless good prognosticators of rain and snow.  I know a man who can tell when it begins to snow when he is closed up in a chamber where he can not possibly see or hear the out door elements.  He is irritably and painfully effected in his parded face, and the hair of his head stands of an end.  And it may not be generally know that at such a time any one having on a woolen coat where rubbed over the back & with a lady's fur muff may ignite [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] a gas jet with the tip of his finger, especially when he is standing on a tufted carpet.

How the motion and mystery of these things stand in their scientific relations we have yet to learn, and when we shall have learned them, we may also have learned how to kindle our fires at all times without the aid of lucifer matches, great as are their advantages over the old method of kindling by flint and steel.

While birds, and quadrupeds, and fishes, and insects, may never learn the reason of their electrical instincts, men ought to try and learn them, and profit by the learning.  

When the pig runs about the barn yard with stems of straw or leaves of corn it its mouth, and essays to gym nasticate a solo waltz, it is well for the farmer to prepare for rain or snow.  Dogs grow sleepy and dull, and like to lie before the fire for hours before it begins to rain.  Cats loose their vivacity at such times, while rats and mice are more than usually restless. Ducks and geese, before and during a rain are apt to run and dive through the water; and pigeons wash