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STRANGE PHENOMENA.

Wo extract the following from the Electrician :—“ Recently, at Crswf rd. Indiana, daring the foil of a slight shower of rain, but in the absence of any ind;cation of a thunderstorm, a ball of fire was seen to enter the window ot a b"nse occupied by one of the most prominent ci'izens in the town Shortly afterwards Mr Riley was discovered lying upon the fl >or, his body, according to the American account from which we quote, burnt almost to a cinder and unrecognisable A black s;re>k was traced upon the carpet from the window to the fi oplace, in which line the body was found The family, who were sitting out ido the bouse, witnessed the ball of fire euter the window and apparently disappear up the chimney This is the second instauc' which we have recenty recorded of a discharge of globular lightning having ascended a chimney. The fact would seem to indicate the possibility that its con's ■ mtt’; be determined in part by the direction of a current of air. Hut if, as we r cently suggested, the phenomena is due to a smell quantify of vapour charged to an excess vely high electric tension, it is difficult to understand how it could continue Its course after having discharged sufficient elec ricity to carbonise a h-imau body ”

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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1431, 14 December 1886, Page 3

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STRANGE PHENOMENA. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1431, 14 December 1886, Page 3

STRANGE PHENOMENA. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1431, 14 December 1886, Page 3

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