Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1892 — Thunder and Lightning. [ARTICLE]

Thunder and Lightning.

An elm tree near Carthage, N. Y.. has been thrice struck by lightning, A Kentucky man has been struck by lightning four times and still lives. Lightning struck a woman in Jasper county, Mo., and made her deaf and dumb. A Pennsylvania girlirbo was maJe blind by a vivid flash of lightning has just recovered her sight. The first thing she did was to run across the room to a looking glasV An observatory of a fire and lightning proof quality of construction has been designed and a section built so as to be easily carried to the top of Mont Blanc, where it will be peimanenlly located. An Australian farmer saw Satan’s initial the other day. A bolt of lightning struck the center of his best field, and when he went to the spot he saw a fiery, flaming D. He nas no doubt it was the sign manual of the arch fiend himself.

During the progress of a Wagner-, ian festival in Vienna the hall was struck by lightning five times. The damage was slight, which goes to show that £he lightning and dread thunderbolts of Jove can not hope to make much headway against a Wagnerian festival. A locust tree at Rockville, Md., was struck by lightning some weeks ago. The leaves of the tree died and left the tree with the appearance of being dead also. Much to the astonishment of people in that vicinity the tree is now covered with the most fragrant blossoms. It was recently stated before the Royal societv of London that thej only reason the earth has not long ago been deluged in a sea of nitric acid is that ti e igniting point of nitrogen is higher than the temperature produced by its combustion,and! therefore the flame is not hot enough' to set fire to the adjoining gas. Were it not for this the first lightning flash would probably have fired the air, seriously interfered with the devel I opment of the world, and made things generally uucomfortable. The fight over that $30,000 lortune of the late Mr. Mollinger. of Pittsburg, has developed the interesting fact that the estate is realty worth about SIOO,OOO. J . ,; ' t> UvU Dcrsons. , ’ l >. • ’ !