And ships shall suffer on the sea.
That year on Monday, without fearing
All things well thou mayst begin,
They shall be profitable;
Children that on this day are born,
I’ faith shall mighty be and strong,
Of wit full reasonable.
East Wind.
A change of wind, particularly a change from any other quarter to east, makes most people feel uncomfortable, and produces headaches in persons who are subject to them. Similar changes have the most violent effects when they happen about the new or full moon. It is difficult to ascertain in what degree the directions and changes of wind are under the influence of electricity, but there are many circumstances which would incline one to believe that these changes are dependent on some similar principle to that which causes atmospheric diseases in the human body, for certain winds, as well as certain changes of wind, are known to produce epidemics in many countries where violent atmospherical complaints prevail; and in every country of the world I believe the east wind is almost proverbially unhealthy. Casual changes to east produce headache and nervous complaints, and a long-continued wind from that quarter produces an unwholesome season. Another curious thing is, that with east winds good astronomical observations cannot be made, the luminous objects seeming to dance or wave about in the field of the telescope. (Atmospheric Phenomena—Forster.)
Shooting Stars a Prognostic of Bad Weather.