Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1876 — Another Wonderful Shower. [ARTICLE]

Another Wonderful Shower.

Tine truthful genius who presides over the local columns of the Burlington Hawk-Eye, gives the following graphic account or a recent strange event in that locality: Yesterday afternoon about tour o’clock r the residents of South Hill, in the vicinity of Perkin's meadow, were amazed almost beyond expression at a most singular and inexplicable event. At the time the sky was comparatively clear, and but few people were out of doors.. Suddenly a little daughter of Rufus Rosenbaum, who owns the South Hill butter- factory, came running into the house crying out that it was saining bread. Her father sternly reproved her for using such exaggeration, out she Insisted mat she tola only the truth, and he dropped his hammer on the anvil,"and ran out. Amazement sealed his lips when he saw the ground already thickly covered with bits of white wheat bread about three inches long and two wide, while It was still falling quite rapidly, but almost as softly as snow, while the people were out gathering it up and examining it. Ms. Rosenbaum found, to his still greater surprise, that the bread was palatable, and! actually buttered wHh an excellent 'ftirtidb of eleo margarine- The Perkin’s Meadow people, overwhelmed with astonishment, after gathering small sample lots of the bread to show their neighbors, started oft to drive their friends wild with envy. But as they reached Webb street they were surprised to find that the shower extended even that far. and the bread that fell there was battered on both sides, and had the top crust cut off. As they came on down Summer street they passed through a severe shower of sugar crackers and warm muffins. But when they reached Barnes street the scene beggared description. For in that favored locality the atmosphere was full of Boston brown bread, and hot raised biscuit While farther down, on Angular street, it was raining corn bread and late buckwheat cakes. It was unfortunate, however, that before the Barnes street people could get out to enjoy this shower of modern manna, a heavy storm of knives and forks came rattling down, which drove the people hastily into their homes. 'This storm was of short duration, and within fifteen minutes after it ceased, there was not a crumb of bread or a knife or fork to be seen on the ground, the geese, which grow in that neighborhood at the rate- of 144 to the square foot, having devoured everything. As a postscript to the above we would state that Mr. Rosenbaum has just called at the office with the information that Theodore Daniels, who was digging a well tor Mr. Throckmorton, had just struck a running vein of sweet milk. The supply appears to be inexhaustible, and they are going to send the well to the Centennial.