LIGHTNING FREAKS.
Lightning sometimes plays some singular pranks that are not quite tragical. We (" Geelong Times") narrated on Tuesday the singular smashing of a brandy bottle in a Moorobool street shop It has since been discovered that the hay stacks burnt at Point Henry wero set fire to by the lightning attracted by the wires that fastened down the stacks. But even these instances do not equal one recorded in the " Ballarat Post " that happened on the same day at a private school in Ballarat. It seems that a row of little boys were sitting down, one of them busily employed whittling with a penknife, when the electric fluid struck tho blade, breaking it short off, the' broken part striking him across the nose and inflicting a severe cut, while the boy next to him fainted. The same paper reports that three fires occurred on Monday near Bungaree, at totally different points of the compass. Mr D. Olohesy lost five stacks. One lot of staoks was fully half-a-mile from the other, and the two lota were burning at the same time. Mr Hindley, residing five miles to the west of Mr Olohesy, also lost some stacks on the same day. Mr Tom Q.uinn was also a sufferer. Were these fires the effect of lightning also ?
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2230, 21 April 1881, Page 3
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215LIGHTNING FREAKS. Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2230, 21 April 1881, Page 3
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