A Flash of Lightning.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XV, Issue 5100, 22 February 1888, Page 2

A Flash of Lightning.

During a hailstorm at Mora, in Denmark, recently, a flash of forked lightning—^tha only one occurring — struck a farm, and, having {demolished the chimney-stack and made a wreck of the loft, descended into the living rooms on tho ground floor below. Here its career appears to hare been most extraordinary, all the plaster around doors and windows having been torn down, and the bed-curtains in the bed-rooms rent to pieces. An old Dutch clock was smashed into atoms, but a canary and cage hanging a few inches from it were quite uninjured. The lightning also broke sixty windaws and all the mirrors in the houia. On leaving the rooms it passed clean through the door into the yard, where ib killed a cat, two fowls, and a pig, and then buried itself in the earth. In one of the rooms wore two women, both of whom were struck to the ground, but neithet was injured.

In a school ' not a hundred miles' from Woodville, a teacher was giving her class a lesson on useful knowledge. ' What would you do if you burnt your fingers, Johnny V aaked tho mistreat. Young Colonial, without hesitation, promptly ri« plied, • I should awear, nriss !'