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Show SOME TRICKS OF LIGHTNING. Bolts, It Would Seem, Were Sent to Do Their Works. man In Mississippi was cutting a chew of tobacco when a bolt of lightning light-ning struck his hands. They were so badly burned that they had to be amputated. Two quarrymen wore preparing a fuse In a Georgia marblo quarry when lightning struck the charge and they were blown to frag-raenls frag-raenls The mate of an Atlantic coasting coast-ing schooner was drunkenly Inviting a sailor aloft engaged In shortening sa.ll lo come down and be rut to pieces, when a holt of lightning struck the mate dead. A boy seated In a small boat that was attached to and trailing from a sailing yacht off the South Carolina coast was killed by a bolt of lightning, while the yacht was not damaged. An unbelieving farmer In Indiana was engaged in a controvors) with an Itinerant minister minis-ter when hC was struck dead by lightning while making a blasphemous blasphe-mous remark. |