A fall of red 1 snow \va« lately noticed near Hrmncon. in an Alpine district, ;iniMxiiiir the inhabitants of the counlrv and giving scope for tlic most -fantastic suppositions. Th'ei snow, on heiny analysed, was found to contain ochre dust, and tin's was thought to have been brought from tlie Sahara in the Ktreani of a powerful sirocco wind. Another suggestion was that it came from the South of France. on the Riviera, where ihe soil is red. The Paris Matin announces that, despite the prize of CIOOO it has offered to any medium who could raise a table by supernatural means, nothing worthy of the name has been submitted to the committee of scientists who are acting as the judges.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 3143, 13 November 1922, Page 8
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