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Show Two Singular Showers, On Saturday, Nov. 11, 1882, there was a shower of peculiar shaped seeds over an area of several square miles in the vicinity of Statesburg, S. C. The shower began about 11:30 a. ni., and was noted for twelve miles in one direction and about seven and a half in tho other. In ; the center of the district over which they : fell the ground was almost covered, tho noise niado by them as they fell on the leaves much resembling that made by fine sleet. When examined under the microscope these seed, like granules, appeared ap-peared wholly di fferent from any seeds known to botanists of that part of South Carolina. In the following month. December, 1882, Huntington, Ind.,and vicinity was treated to a shower of strange worms. They were only about the fourth of au inch in length and about tlie diameter of a small sewiug needle. Iu some places they fell in Buch abundance as to cover the snow and ice to the depth of nearly half an inch. St. Louis Republic, ' i |