The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-04-16
SHOWERS OF BLOOD.
RAINS or HUMAN HAIR, Blue SILK
AND FLIES.
The kentucky story Robbed nj Its
Novelty.


Novelty.
In this age Of skepticism and unbelief extreme |
sides are always taken when anything occurs
that appears In any way supernatural The
late shower Of flesh tso-ealedl In Kentucky has
been tho theme of any amount of newspaper
dissertations. scientific explanations and con
e,tura theories. but we think that the majority
IF news readers do not believe word of 1t, and
consider the whole story IA fabrication.
Now a shower of flesh to occur in ones own
state is not a thing to be despised. and We will
stand by Kentucky IN this delicate business by
proving that If the thing did not happen. at least
humorous precedenta tend to establish that 1t is
not impossible.
We do 90 by laying before our readers tho fol
lowing facts culled from an oNchange,whch Ger
titles that most Of them can be found recorded
| N the works Of Humboldt Mnury and Ehren-
berg:
| ON the 9Th and eth Of November. 4T9 there was
n great fall Of black dust In tho neighborhood of
| Constantnnple and the atmosphere seemed ~
be on fire. rrocopius and Mareelius aseribed 1t
to Vesuvius. r,,,.,
/ In sep a red rain fell for three hours in the vi
entity Of Brixen. in the Austrian Tyrol.
In ga. Of agdaa there rsa sS VA great reaness IN
| In 1856 there was fall OF rcd snow IN Ar
menia. . Y,. t.,
Armenia, on dark night In winter, n flaming
body fell into Lake Van. The water became 81
the color Of blood and the earth cracked open In
In NV or i27l a red rain fell In Bohemia.
About this time there was fall OF stone aud
mass eeoagu'nted blood WIN, N 'ats ,N.s
bali If ilre fell with great noise. and reddish
substance. like coasulated blood. was afterward
In romerania. in 1851 there fell large flakes of
a substance resembling coaguhted blp0u.
On tho 2iih Of December. 1860. ut Lillebonne,
in Iower Seine. France there fell meteor, fol
lowed shortly after by rod rain.
Al the close of terrible tempest on tho 9Th OF
} July 1889 there fell In Hockhauson, In Prussin,
a quantity Of fbrous matter resembling human
hair .,,, r.,a.
1889 there fell large quantities OF matter. partly
, rod and partly black accompanied by lghtnings
and thunder and fiery meteor. which burst
) In August. 1919. meteor fell In Syria accom-
panied by aehower Of stones and rain OF blood
'At Tourney In Belgium, is 1873 rod rain fell.
In January 1913, Bloody rain fell at vacbigeu,
and Mt Weinsberg, In the Kingdom OF "urtem-
burg. a., ,.., ,a.,,,,,,,
following brilliant meteor, viseid mass fell.
\ on the 18th of March. 1905, there fell near
, Inueha. Prussia. u shower OF nbrous substance
! like blue silk.
2 On The sist Of January 1896, there foil. stimuli
;; taneousy in Norway and In parts OF Pomerania
! n great quantity Of membranpus substance
= frinbln and blaekish. somewhat like half burned
$ nanar The Baron Theodore Gotthus analysed
! portion of tho substance which had been pre- pre-,
8 found in it slick. iron. lime. carbon maRuesia
. d trace Of chrome and " sulphur, but not par.
tice Of nickel, always present in aorolltos.
o On the oath of March. iTls. on the Island o
Iethy. in India. there fell n ball OF fire contain
J, Ing golatinous matter.
r seconded nj Locarno, Switzerland, during whicl
/ nine inches Of rain fell, and tho red matter tina
I, was deposited during the shower was found t.
l. bc bv actual measurement, an inch deep.
% Tho same storm reached Swabia, on the Alps
i and on those high mountains i changed INTO
:, On the sth IF March, 1898, vscid and resnou
y substance fell near Bautzen, in upper Lusata
Is Chadn Guyton do Morveau and Blumenbac
had specimens Of it. It resembled in smell an
color the dried gum 81 lunpefi .,,.,, 80,
l., Grand Duchy of Baden. gelatinous substanc
II following tho explosion 81 meteor;
On August ~. 1919. mass u gelatlnous an
O. very fetid matter foil at Amherst. in Massu
On September +, In 1912 at SUDDEN, Morayi,
between II q. m. and noon. the atmosphere boin
II serene and tranquil. there was - fall OF littl
w. ~ pieces of earth from small cloud isolated an
~ ~, very bright
ef In 1sIl accounts were published ~ two shower
n. Of flesh and hlood-one in Massachusetts,. tl'
!" other in Tennessee.
In lsla. q shower of meat fell in Laurens Dis
trict. South Carolina. The ground was strow
with what appeared to be pieces of meat varyin
from the size of an ounce ball to larger than
hens egg. The pieces were very moist. rod 6
blood. and the cotton. grass, or whatever the
IN, came In contact with. was stained as with bloc
THE ALBANY WONDER OF 1867.
During tho month Of August 1867. masses
n gelatinous matter containing minute granul'
Y. were found In the streets ofshe city of Alban
Tn Nav York. Several persons claim to have see
ne under trees or shelter. They had probab
In been carried n great distance by the wind. an
ry arc likely to be germs of marine growth. pc
haps the fitcus pldtpcdpns, which they resembl
The presence OF chloride of sodium. which
found largely In the gelatinous envelope. is 60
he roboraton Of their marine origin.
Ie. OTHER HISTORICAL RAINS.
he A storm of red hail ia stated by Humboldt
1T have occurred at Palermo. In Tuscany. Marc
to IA. 1919, there fell hail Of an orange color.
w In March, 1903. u fall of ovor Ave feet of r.
II, snow occurred in Carniola. Germany III
re ground had been previously covered with whit
er and the storm Of colorod snow was succeeded
ri another the flakes of which were. rs usual. of
~ pure and brilliant white. the two kinds ber
NJ perfectly distinct. portion OF the red sno
, n fine, rose-ooored. earthly sediment at Il
II, bottom.
er snow eolored brick rcd fell in Italy in ls
T." black snow fell at Walpoc. n H.. 90 inten
N, IN is color tha, corresponde9t Of the b?st,
ne some writing written with the snow as it fe
as and with u clean pen.
nv The different colors of many of these snc
nj deposits may depend upon tho same coloril
w matter under different conditions Mcroscot
zee Investigations IN different parts of tho wor
IN have revealed tDe cause OF theSo DUST Stoft
mt and blood rains to be either portions of vario
m minerals shells Of infusoria or parts Of plan
VI and insects carried into the atmosphere by {
us winds Infusoral shells and aquatic plants
| especial localities have been identified after ha
ct ing crossed tho ocean and been deposited
~ dust storms. thus tracing the aerial curren
~. Ehrenborg found 800 different species OF orga
bit isms in the dust Of various flowers; of tho
IN five were OF marine origin. Humboldt tref
ot very fully Of the subject in his "Ansieht d
~ Natur' and in his kosmos.' Maury's Phys
q cal Geography Of the Sea- has also some /
lid teresting facts on the Same topic
OF And now. il anybody has any doubt concer
he ing the Kentucky wonder. he is, in Pickwic
90 ian sense. an unbelever and an infldel. As go
o9I' Germs our political or religious faith in the ms
81, ter we have adopted tho motto "Credo Qtja a
ny studitm."
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1T WOMAN VENGEANCE.
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