Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1896 — Herring Drops. [ARTICLE]

Herring Drops.

After a heavy shower had once swept over Lake Gynant a shower of small fishes resembling young herring began to fall, to the amazement of the women who were gathered about the banks washing. The storm was a particularly severe one, accompanied by thunder and lightning, and the "living rain" had evidently been transported a long distance before being dropped into their native element again. The transportation of fish through the air is by no means uncommon. The city of Louisville, Ky., was once visit ed by a shower of fishes. The fall of rain was extraordinary, overflowing the streets, and the following morning quantities of small fish, the sun ptreh. were found swimming in the gutters. Attempts were made to discover where they came from, but no extraordinary whirlwind had been noticed in the vlc’nity and, so far as known, the source was never traced. That fishes are lifted out of the ocean by the vdnd and whisked away, is a well known fact. One morning the farmers of the island of Isla, Argyleshire, were amazed to find numbers of small herring lying in the grass of their fields, and as many of them were still alive it was evident that the transfer had been made recently. A similar experience was chronicletl by the farmers of Kent: white Lord Eastnor describes a fall of crabs upon his well' known estate, h’yttonhanger Park. Kent. As with others recorded, the crabs fell during or following a fierce rain storm ami had been caught up by the wind.