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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 706, 2 March 1881, Page 2

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The following curious paragraph by Benjamin Franklin! the the identity of lightning with electriciH| appears in his Memoirs, published in by H. W. Derby, 265, Broadway,' York, Mil, page 891:- ..■...,. N "I have .seen an instance of comnHM flies preserved in a manner somewHß similar. They had been drowned HH Maderia wine, apparently about the it had been bottled in Virginnia to be hither (to London). At the one of the bottles, at the house of a where I then was, threejdrowned flies into the first glass that.was filled. heard it remarked that drowned flies capable of being revived bythe rayfflH the sun I proposed making the upon these: they were therefore to the sun upon a sieve, .which had employed to strain them out of the In less than 1 three hours two of gan by'degrees to recover life. commenced by some, convulsive. of the thighs, and at length they rajHß themselves upon their legs, wiped

eyos with their fore-feet, beat and brushed their wuigs with their hind-feet, and soon after began to%, finding themselves in old England, without knowing how they came thither. The third continued lifeess till sunset, when, losing all hope of him, ho was thrown away."