DEATHS FROM LIGHTNING.
There are Very Few of Them Nowadays,
It is probably idle to tell people there is a thousand times the danger in the sewer pipes that there is in the thunder clouds, but it ia truo all the same. The deaths by lightning aro few indeed. Who of the readers of this paragraph, says tbe Hartford 'Courant,' ever loßb a friend thab way? Who of them hasn't lost a score of friends by bhe less brilliant and leas noisy desbructiou that comes out of the drains? The trouble with the lightning, or the trouble that it gives tho people, is in its indescribable suddenness and its absolute uncertainty.
You know neither when it is coming, nor where ifc is going, all thab you feel certain aboub is thab some Btorma leave a number of catastrophes to mark their course. Tho caprice of fcho lightning defies the explanations of science, and there is no predicting beyond a few generalities. This much it does seem safe to repeat, oven in a lively lightning season, that tbe increased use of electricity, with the multiplicity of wires, has tended to fewer fatal strokes of lightning in cities.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 259, 1 November 1890, Page 4 (Supplement)
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