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Show RECORD HAILSTORM. Stating that the hailstorm in Lehi, last Monday evening was the greatest in Utah history. J C Alter declares many of the hailstones were five inches in circumference, and destroyed windows, shmb-'bery, shmb-'bery, fruit trees and garden stuff On examination, Mr. Alter found that the broken hailstones presented the usual, but very interesting, concentric layer structure i beginning at the center with a half-inch crystal marble or frozen , raindrop; on this were alternate Layers of opaque and crstal snow j and ice, due to its having been repeatedly thrown aloft by violent vertical drafts into freezing atmosphere before hailstone was finally thrown far enough out at the top of the draft, or to one side of it, to allow the stone to fall entirely to the earth Mauv of those exam-I exam-I iued had been rethrown eight or ten times, the concentric layers I being rather thin, indicating a brief experience while getting each I layer. I Mr Alter Bays there are records of storms equally as heavy in the Salt Lake valley, although less destructive for the area covered. Probably the worst on record occurred near Salt Lake City on June J 13, 1854, when hail injured several wheat fields most seriously in I the region of the Big and Little Cottonwood creeks. I The city of Sacramento is selling out its stock of law books at $20 a ton. Wonder it' the weigh 'em in the Scales of Justice. jj A Chicago doctor says folks should have two vacations a year one in summer and another in winter. Show this to your boss. |