Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1904 — Red and Green Snow. [ARTICLE]

Red and Green Snow.

At various times it Is recorded that there has been "blood on the face of the moon.” Some old chronicles tell of showers of blood, which, however, are not well authenticated. The “bloody snow,” on the other band. Is an actual thing. Snow Is sometimes found In polar and Alpine regions, where it lies unmelted from year to year, and the annual fall is small, colored red by the presence of Innumerable small red plants. In Its native state the plant consists of brilliant red globules on a gelatinous mass. Red snow was observed by the ancients, a passage In Aristotle referring to it, but it attracted little or no attention until 1700, when Saussure observed It In the Alps and concluded that tt was due to the pollen of a plant It was also noticed by the arctic expedition nnder Captain Ross on Baffin's bay shore, on a range of cliffs, the red color penetrating to the depth of twelve feet Less frequent is a green growth of snow. just imagine these rich colors decorating the landscape near our large dtissl Country boose parties would hare a new attraction which would appeal to the artistic and aesthetic sense.