Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1898 — Snow Storms of Many Colors. [ARTICLE]

Snow Storms of Many Colors.

Colored snow storms were recorded as long ago as the sixth century, and a shower of red hall is said by Humboldt to have once occurred in Palermo. In Tuscany, on March 14, 1813, there fell hail of an orange color. In 1808 red snow fell to a depth of over five feet in CaTiiola, Germany. Tire stofm of colorisl snow was followed by one of the*, regulation color, and the effect produced by, the separate layers of red and white, which were perfectly distinct, was very peculiar. A portion of the scarlet snow was melted In a vessel and the water evaporated, when a fine, rose-colored, earthy sediment * was found at the bottom. Snow of a brickred hue fell lu Italy In 181 G, and in the Tyrol in 1847. In the first volume of Kane’s Arctic Exploration it is stated that when the ship passed the “Crimson Cliffs of Sir John Ross” the patches of red snow, from Which they derive their name, could be seen at a distance <■{ fully ten miles.—Saturday Evening Post.