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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
78
Or
the
red
matter
in
rain,
at
Siena,
Italy,
May,
1830;
said,
by
Arago,
to
have
been
vegetable
matter
(Arago,
OEuvres,
12-468).
Somebody
should
collect
data
of
falls
at
Siena
alone.
In
the
Monthly
Weather
Review,
29-465,
a
correspondent
writes
that,
upon
Feb.
16,
1901,
at
Pawpaw,
Michigan,
upon
a
day
that
was
so
calm
that
his
windmill
did
not
run,
fell
a
brown
dust
that
looked
like
vegetable
matter.
The
Editor
of
the
Review
concludes
that
this
was
no
widespread
fall
from
a
tornado,
because
it
had
been
reported
from
nowhere
else.
Rancidness--putridity--decomposition--a
note
that
has
been
struck
many
times.
In
a
positive
sense,
of
course,
nothing
means
anything,
or
every
meaning
is
continuous
with
all
other
meanings:
or
that
all
evidences
of
guilt,
for
instance,
are
just
as
good
evidences
of
innocence--but
this
condition
seems
to
mean--things
lying
around
among
the
stars
a
long
time.
Horrible
disaster
in
the
time
of
Julius
Caesar;
remains
from
it
not
reaching
this
earth
till
the
time
of
the
Bishop
of
Cloyne:
we
leave
to
later
research
the
discussion
of
bacterial
action
and
decomposition,
and
whether
bacteria
could
survive
in
what
we
call
space,
of
which
we
know
nothing--
Chemical
News,
35-183:
Dr.
A.T.
Machattie,
F.C.S.,
writes
that,
at
London,
Ontario,
Feb.
24,
1868,
in
a
violent
storm,
fell,
with
snow,
a
dark-colored
substance,
estimated
at
500
tons,
over
a
belt
50
miles
by
10
miles.
It
was
examined
under
a
microscope,
by
Dr.
Machattie,
who
found
it
to
consist
mainly
of
vegetable
matter
"far
advanced
in
decomposition."
The
substance
was
examined
by
Dr.
James
Adams,
of
Glasgow,
who
gave
his
opinion
that
it
was
the
remains
of
cereals.
Dr.
Machattie
points
out
that
for
months
before
this
fall
the
ground
of
Canada
had
been
frozen,
so
that
in
this
case
a
more
than
ordinarily
remote
origin
has
to
be
thought
of.
Dr.
Machattie
thinks
of
origin
to
the
south.
"However,"
he
says,
"this
is
mere
conjecture."
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