WONDERS OF EPSOM RACES.
EPSOM Races were thinly attended ; but more persons would have visited the scene, had they been aware of the remarkable pheno- raena there exhibited. The reporter of a Morning Paper states, • that on the Wednesday, the rain fell like aflight ofarrows. Ex- posure to wet is disagreeable, but who would not have seized the opportunity of seeing such a shower as that ? On the Thursday, just before the start for the Derby, the hail showed itself little behind the rain of the previous day, the stones being nearly the size of French beans. But the most remarkable circumstance was the optical effect it produced: "Looking down upon the living lines that skirted the course, it was curious to see the entire space paved with umbrellas, which, with their diversified colours, resembled long rows of flowers."
As umbrellas are commonly green, we learn from this represen- tation that such is the hue of flowers ; a fact which has probably not before been suspected by the good inhabitants of London.
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