| Show oddities of rain not in any way miraculous many instances have been recorded of storms of bink ink 11 during a recent crup eruption tion of vesuvius a torrential downpour of inky black rain fell to the great consternation of the superstitious peasantry while in fit spain a year or so ago it a carnival was interrupted by a raging and the co costumes of the lie revelers were dyed black by the rain avene more extraordinary and disturbing were tile the storms of blood which have swept si 1 the country in the past on one occasion folk folh in ireland were terrified by a downpour of blood red rain which in their superstitious mand assumed the form of it portent what use would it be to tell them that it wits was merely a shower of microscopic cro water organisms caught up by the wind and held in rain drops the term raining cats and logs dogs may not lie be strictly accurate but it has been known to rain fish this extraordinary phenomenon occurred in scotland a couple of years ago when cottagers in a remote district on the northeast coast were astounded to find small live fish pelting from the sky shy in ft a torrent of rain among other strange storms one must chronicle a liall hall of bananas which occurred four years ago in the canary islands countless fall of largo large aind small stones caught up by the wind and on one momentous occasion in japan it a downpour of pearl oysters which piled up ready for opening were swept away by the high wind and dropped on the delighted heads of villagers some miles away |
