Omaha daily bee., 1884-01-07

Gutenberg and have been found to con
tain infusorIa, whose terrestrial origin h,
was able TO locate. Some account of thes,
may in this connection be of interest
The great German naturalist and micros
copist mentions in his ''Micro.G Geologic
81 dust storms which took place before
the Christian era, beginning with that
mention by Homer in the "lliad." Sub.
sequent to the beginning of our era he
mentions about three times that number.
The peculiar rains mentioned below are
some of them mentioned by Laury, others
by Won Humboldt, in "Kosmos" and
Others by Ehrenberg:
On the 9th and 9th Of November, 472
A. d., there was q fall of black dust in
the neighborhood of Constantinople and
the atmosphere seemed to be on fire.
Marcellus ascribed it to Vesuvius.
Again, in 652 A. D., red dust fell in
Constantinople.
At Brixen, in the Austrian Tyrol, in
500 A. D., red rain fell for three hours.
A red sand fell in Bagdad in 920 A.
d., and for many hours previous and
subsequently the atmosphere was tinged
red.
In 1866 A. d., there was a fall of red
snow in Armenia.
In lilo A. d., in the province of Vas
pouragan, in Armenia, a flaming body
fell into Lake Van and the water became
the color Of blood.
In 1919 or 1929 A D., (the date is UNI
certain), a red rain fell in Bohemia. At
the same time there was a falling of fine
sand a mas, like ~coagulated blood.
On November 6, A. D., ib4S, in
Thuringia, a ball of fire fell with great
noise, followed by a reddish substance
like eoagulated blood. which remained
covering the ground for a long time.
In Pomerania, in 1867, there fell large
flakes of q substance resembling blood.
On December "a, 1860, at Lillebonne,
in Lower Seine, France, a meteor fell,
followed by a red rain.
At the close of the terrible tempest,
on July b, 1852, therefell in Rockhausen,
in Prussia, a quantity of fibrous matter
resembling human hair.
On December 8, 1856, there fell at
Ferden, Hanover, large quantities of
matter, black and red, accompanied by
lightning and thunder.
In August, 1913, a meteor fell in
Syria, accompanied by a blood red rain.
In 1888, at Tourney, in Belgium, a red
rain fell.
In January, 1643, a blood red rain fell
in Voehigen and in Weinsberg, in the
kingdom of Wurtemberg.
On March %, 1868, there fell near
Laucha, Prussia, a shower of fbrous
substance, like blue silk.
WHERE DID IT oME FRoMf
On January 81, 1868, there fell in Nor
way a great quantity of membranous sub
stances, friable and like half burnt paper.
The Baron Gotthaus analysed a portion
of the substance and found in it slick,
iron, lime, carbon, magnesla, a trace of
chrome and of sulphur, but not a particle
of nickel, which is always present in
aerolites.
On March "a, 171S, on the island of
Lethy, in India, a ball of fire fell and af-
ter it a gelatinous red substance.
On October ID, 1755, a blood-red rain
descended at Locarno, Switzerland. Nine
inches of rain fell, and it was ascertained
that the red matter contained in this
shower was an inch deep by actual meas
urement. The same storm reached
Swabia, on the Alps, and there changed
into a reddish snow, which fell to a depth
of nine feet.
On August ID, 1919, a mass of gelatin
GUS matter fell in Amherst, Mass.
In 1S41 two blood-red rains are men,
tined-one in Massachusetts, the other
in Tennessee.
In 1912 a man named Ingelow and his
two sons were picking cotton on a planta-
ton in Laurens district, near Eurole
river, South Carolina, when out of an al
most cloudless sky great particles of red
gelatinous matter fell in a shower.
In 1867 a similar rain fell in Albany,
and the late lamented DIR. Jacob T..
Mosher, of happy memory, made an
analysis of it. He found it contained
germs of marine growth, likely facus
piatyca,pus.
In 1913, according to Won Humboldt,
there was n fall of red-colored hail in
Palermo.
The same year there was, according to
the same authority, a fall of orange
tinted hail in Tuscany.
In March, 1903, at Corniolo, Ger
many, there was a fall of five feet of red
snow.
A brick colored snow fell in Italy in
1916.
II NJ CLIFFS Oh BEVERLEY.
In the first volume of Kane's "Arctic
Explorations" page A, the following,
which proves the universal character of
these phenomenal rains, will be found :
my diary continues: We passed the
Crimson cliffs of Sir John Ross in the
forenoon of August 5. The patches and
red snow from which they derive their
name could be seen clearly at a distance
of ten miles from the coast. 1t had a fine
deep rose hue, not at all like the brown
satin which l noticed when / was here
before. All the gorges and ravines in
which the snow had lodged were deeply
tinted with it. ] had now no difficulty
in justifying the somewhat p~oetical
nomenclature which Sir John Franklin
applied to this locality, for if the snowy
surface were more dihused, as it is no
doubt earlier in the season, crimson
would be the prevailing color. The
red snow was diversified with large
surfaces of beautiful green and slope-
Gus.
There have been with us for the past
ten years rains of flies and reptiles, if GER
tain news papers are to be credieed, but
the books are silent concerning many OF
these phenomenal rains. DR.. I.orne Of
Laval university, however, vouches foi