Show SOME PRANKS OF LIGHTNING Fantastic Tricks Played Upon Unfortunate Unfor-tunate Victims One of the fantastic tricks which lightning plays upon its unfortunate victims Is a kind of flashlight photography pho-tography There arc numerous instances In-stances of this which are more or less authenticated but they seem almost too wonderful to be believed One of these Is of a young man in Now Jersey who was struck by lightning and was taken In an ambulance to tho hospital at once There seemed to be no wound except a small mark on the back but while tho doctors and nurses were examining him a picture began to develop on the skin Soon before tho wondering eyes of tho watchers appeared a perfect picture of tho figure of Christ nailed to the cross Tho explanation Is that on the wall opposite the bed on which the young man lay was the picture which was reproduced on his skin Another Instance is of a man who was struck by lightning and on his the chest were red marks resembling tree with all Its branches under which tho mnn was standing when ho was killed From France comes tho story of a peasant girl who was driving a cow from the pasture when she wall overtaken by a storm and sho and tho cow took refuge under tho tree A bolt killed the cow and stunned tho girl When she recovered consciousness conscious-ness she found on her chest a picture of tho cow she had been driving The chatelaine of the castle of Bonatonnalro was sitting In a chair In her salon when the chateau was struck by lightning She was Quito uninjured but on tho back of her of the dress was found a perfect copy chair on which she had been sitting down to Its minutest ornament These are a few of the many strange pranks which lightning plays upon us II |