Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1905 — Freaks of Lightning. [ARTICLE]

Freaks of Lightning.

A noted astronomer and scientist In a recent lecture iu Paris gave an account of some of the freaks of lightning. These freaks, however, he affirmed, were determined by causes which we have yet to learn. Sometimes It kllle, sometimes It merely injures and sometimes it seems to be frolicking In a way which gives rise to the hypothesis that “It Is a thought which, Instead of being attached to a brain, la attached to an electric current.” Sometimes It plays the physician, as In the Instance at Romalnes, France, when It ■truck a man who had not been able to walk without a cratch on account of rheumatism. After the shock the rheumatism disappeared.