Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1879 — A Storm in Switzerland. [ARTICLE]

A Storm in Switzerland.

A storm here Is mightily impressive. I was seated the other evening on the summit of the “Schaenzli,” a round topped hill crowned with A summer hotel and theater, and was dining listlessly, looking out now and then at the vast line of snow clad peaks in the O her land miles away, when there come a burst of terrific thunder, and then a succession of lightning flashes. The servant came hurrying to remove the doth, and pointed apolgetically to a Mack cloud which was coming with extraordinary swiftness dong the sky. Far off in the valleys I could see great sheets of rain falling; and a beautiful curtain of white clouds rose slowly up before the white Alps, shutting them entirely from view. There came more an awning, it seemed to me that tbe surrounding world had disappeared. 2E? I&ZSSSt rS-tS down with crushing force among the wind tormented trees; the heavens (Uriy beU...«i, ftim moSintto than »«n»| Berne and its cathredaL the long line of wooden »houses by the river, with their gabled roofs and hundred windows,, the poplar trees, the bridge and tbe noble hills

beyond it, were gone. Chaos reigned in stead. hour of this was

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