The Beauty Of Sunsets.

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 36, 25 April 1913, Page 3

The Beauty Of Sunsets.

I When tho air i - moist i! ah-mb-i the blue rays of light and lets the ! red rays pass. Therefore tin.* sun is sometimes r 1. " d’h -p when 1 tho sun drops bei >w tin* horiz >n |we are able t • see only th | vertical* rays, which often stri ;«• | masses of vapour, which wo call .Aclouds, and are reflected. liaysypf light are c nun * u.-d of waves or vibrations of different size, speed and intensity. The short waves are blue, the long ones are red, and the interm *diate waves represent the din'ereut i primary colours. | When a blue an 1 red wave get mixed they form a purple wave, and other colours arc m ule by different combinations je t as a painter mixes bis paints on his palette. As waves of light A hie 3 the clouds together they produce some rare tints, some glorious combinations which artists have never been able to imitate, and if# the banks of vapour floating on the horizon are of irregular shapes they produce the fantastic effects we admire so much. There have been phen m:uia which have added t> the beauty of sunset displays. In August, 1883, on the little island of Xrakafcoa, in the strait ot Sunda, between Sumatra and Java, there was a terrific volcanic eruption the greatest cataclysm that has occurred within the memory of man. Some 30,000 lives were lost. The eruption was foil owed by extraordinary atmospheric phenomena, visible over the greater portion of the globe. It was attributed to volcanic I dust which was projected in stupendous quantities for miles into the air, and carried around the world by the currents that are constancy moving in the atmosphere. It made the sunsets of that year remarkable : and unprecedented for their ! beauty. j The same thing .was noticed after the more recent eruption of Mount Felee.