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STRANGE THINGS DROP FROM THE SKY. (Continued from page 3, column 2.) removed from manufacturing centers, in August, 18S8. Red rains, terrifying "rains of blood" as they were called have been known to occur as far back as the middle ages?nay, as far back as Caesar's time, when they "drizzled blood upon the capitol." Red sand dust from the Sahara, the scientists say this is. November 12 and 13, 1902, it rained red mud, according to the Monthly Weather Review, millinns nf tons of it, in Tasmania. Sev eral parts of Europe were drenched with the red stuff in February, 1903 ?for several days the south of England was a dumping ground, from somewhere up above. Bloody rains fell, too, in Ireland and Scotland. The scientists still stuck to the Sahara theory. But then, when one of the red rains fell in copious quantities near the coast of Newfoundland in 1890, the editor of the Monthly ( Weather Review says: "It would be very remarkable if this was Sahara dust." Besides, the Sahara dust is white, not red. And what about that reddish substance, "thick, viscous and putrid," that fell March 17, 1869, *r> the tnwn of Chatillon-sur-Seine and those copious flakes of a substance that looked like beef fell from a clear sky at Olympian Springs, Bath county, Ky., March 3, 1876, reported in the Scientific American, vol. 34, page 197?flakes of "beef," the size of an envelope? What Do "Messengers" Mean? But here are some real messengers from those inter stellar spaces?or else merely explainable by the "what goes up must come down theory:" A mass of burning sulphur the size of a man's fist fell at Pultusk, Poland, January 30, 1868, and was stamped out by a crowd of villagers. Science. March 9, 1888, reports the fall of a solid block of limestone from the clear sky at Middleburgh, Fla. A shower of limestone pebbles came down at Pel-et-Der, France, June 6, 1890, falling like hale. l; , v A large, gritty, smooth, waterworn sandstone cobble reported to have fallen at Little Lever, England, and found in the heart of a beech tree? "it looked as if it had fallen redhot and had penetrated that tree at high velocity." Reported in Science Gossip, 1887. Another large stone was found in 1855 in the interior of a tree in Battersea Fields, according to the Philosophical Magazine, 4-10-381. At the foot of the tree fragments were found v > .'j j/? ; * as if broken off the embedded stone. What is there to say except that it fell from somewhere "up there" and ? > ?* plunged at high velocity into the tree? Who heaved that brick? Many Thunders tones. "Thunderstones" in abundance are recorded. They are called "thunderstones" in Moravia, Holland, Belgium, France, Cambodia, Sumatra and Siberia. They are called "storm stones" ^ in Lausitz, "sky arrows" in Slavonia, . "thunder axes" in England and Scotland, "lightning stones" in Spain and Portugal, "sky exes" in Greece? polished green stones, as if wrought by hand, many of them. In Prussia two of these stone axes were found in the trunks of trees, sunk deep under the bark (Blinkenberg, Thunderstones, page 100). A cow was killed by what looked like lightning at Guernsey. The peasant who owned the cow. dug up the earth at the spot and found a smooth "greenstone ax." A real round stone "cannon ball" is reported in "Knowledge," Octooer 9, 1885, exhibited at a meeting of the Royal Meteorological society by C. Carus-Wilson. It was a ball of "hard" ferruginous quartzite," about the size ^ of a cocoanut, and had come down 1 out of the sky and killed a lot of * sheep at Casterton Wesmoreland. "Cannon balls and wedges," asks ? the author of "The Book of the ( Damned," "what do they mean? , V. *v VM Via ?/] ?v> x-v 4- a. a ^ i Vt ' A /-> A ll 9 A + 1 uuuiutu umeuis ui iiiib cai m ; i tempts to communicate?" And here are some things that look like real messages. "Pyramidal shaped stones" out of the sky are reported bx the British association, one at Tipperary, near Cashel, August 2, 1865, another at Segowolee, India, March 6, 1853. "The rounded edges of the pyramid are sharply marked by lines on the black crust as if by a ruler," says Dr. Haughton. In the Scientific American September 10, 1910, Charles F. Holder gives an account of a "strange stone that fell into the Valley of the Yaqui, Mexico," and upon the stone were found inscriptions?a circle within a circle, dots and dashes. Blocks of ice are favorite missiles of bombardment?a foot in circumference at Derbyshire, England, May 12, 1811: size of pumpkins at Bungalore, India, May 22, 18ol : a mass weighing 80 pounds was chucked down by some empryean ice man from the sky near Salina, Kan., August, 1882; and a huge block "as big as an elephant" was reported from Seringpatam, India. Super Zeppelin. Evidence, as of venturing airship visitors from other worlds, seems abundant. In 1 S-"?9 Dr. Lescarbault, I an amateur astronomer of Orgeres, France, announced that March 26, he had seen a "strange body of planetary size cross the sun." He wrote to Leverrier, the astronomer, who hastened to Oregres and "satisfied himself as to the substantial accuracy of the reported observation." Here's a super-Zeppelin from interplanetary spaces. According to the Annual Register, .M. de Rostan, August 9, 1 762, taking altitudes of the sun at Basle, France, saw "a vast, spindle shaped body, about three of the sun's digits in breadth and nine in length, advancing slowly across the disc of the sun, at no more than half the velocity with which the ordinary sun-spots move." A moving light across the moon is reported in Philosophical Transactions, 84, page 429, "which looked like a star passing over the moon, but which, on a moment's consideration, I knew to be impossible." Science, July 31, 1896, contains a report by Brooks, director of Smith's observatory, that he had seen a dark round object pass slowly across the moon in a horrizontal direction." The Dutch astronomer, Mulle, stated in the Scientific American, that April 4, 1892, he had seen a similar phenomenon. A communication from Dr. F. B. Harris in Popular Astronomy said "that the evening of January 27, 1912, he had seen an intensely black object that resembled a crow posed as near as anything across the moon." He estimated it to be 200 miles long and 50 miles wide. "I can not but think a very interesting and curious phenomenon happened," he says. Log of Lady of Lake. The journal of the Royal Meteoro logical society gives tne lonowing extract from the log of the barque, Lady of the Lake: "Captain Banner and the sailors reported they saw a remarkable cloudlike structure in the sky, latitude 5-4 7 north, longitude 27, 52 west. It was of circular form, with an included semi-circle divided into four parts, the central dividing shaft beginning at the circle and extending far outward. Unlike a cloud it kept its form and the 'thing' traveled at about 20 degrees above the horrizon. settling towards the northwest. It was visible half an hour ard then disappeared, not disintegrating like a cloud, but becoming lost to sight in the even:ng darkness." Hundreds of authenticated phenomena such as these are cited with booK and page in this curious "Book of the Damned." "The power that says these things are to be excluded, damned, is dogmatic science," says its author, "but some day the excluded may be the excluding." The grand total of all the gold ore produced in the United States since 1792 is about half of the amount of the last United States victory bond issue. Fountain pen ink, in all size bot:les, at Herald Book Store. 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