Show Snow Banners In tho Sierra Nevada mountains when conditions are favorable for the display there occurs a beautiful and startling phenomenon of nature At times when tho wind drives up the mountain sides in a certain direction nil l with sufficient velocity there stream out upon tho air snow banners from a hundred mountain peaks They are formed by the circling wind acting upon the light snow and aro thick and dark at tho top of tho mountain moun-tain like a lIag staff then they float away broadly for a mile In length In waves of Iridescent light This magnificent mag-nificent display is rarely seen by other eyes than those of savages but sometimes It has been the good for tunic of a naturalist to witness It when among the wild beauties of the mountain fastnesses New York Herald Her-ald |