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The SHOWER op HLooD.-Prof Troost has pub


lished long article m the Nashville Banner with
reference to the recent shower of blood which oc-
Cured at Lebanon, Tenn. on the l7th ult. The
explanation which he gives of this remarkable phe-
nomenon differs essentially from that of Prot. Hal
lowell. He took especial pains TO investigate all
the facts in the case, and says there can be no
doubt that the drops of blood found upon the To-,
bacco leaves did really fall from a smsll red cloud
passing swiftly from East to West. The extent of
the shower from forty to sixty yards in breadth,
and six or eight hundred in length: it was thiny
scattered, probably drop every fifteen feet,
irregularly dispersed. Some of the pieces which
fell were nearly tw inches long. Pref Troost be-
liovcs the fragments be animal matter but does
not consider any purt of them to be blood. There
was about them an offensive smell of pu,rd matter
aud the iibres were distinctly visible. On exposing
the particles to the action OF heat they affected
precisely piece Of beef. " There is no doubt"
says the Professor, that this substance is animal
matter, and belongs 10 cur globe" He then emu
merates many instances in which remarkable
showers have been observed, from the year 472 70
the present day. If the facts stated by him are
correct, there can be ground for the explanation
Of Prof Hallowell that the thrown off by
insects in their chrysas Prof Troost ascrbes
il to the action of hurricane, which, he thinks,
may haze taken Up part of IN animal which was in
of decomposition and have brought i, in con-
tact with an electric cloud, which it kept in