Show BALL LIGHTING From Chambers Jounral A The occurrence of what is known as ball lightning is so rare that every instance in-stance of it is of some interest The London Lancet lately described a narrow escape from death by this form of lightning J light-ning which was experienced by a distinguished dis-tinguished surgeon of Louvian who had gone to visit a patient in a neighboring town He was overtaken by a thunderstorm 0 thunder-storm and what he described as a ball of fire descended upon and rendered him for some time unconscious On coming to himself he found that the cloth of the umbrella which he had j been holding was completely burned off > its steel framework the metal being II twisted into every shape He attributes his safety to the circumstance that the jJ umbrella had a wooden handle had it iv been of metal he must have been instantaneously 1 in-stantaneously killed j |