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Show Lightning Stroke Statistics. The statistics of lightning strokes in Germany during the past twenty-six years have been investigated by Hon Kastner, who shows that the annual number of cases has more than doubled in that time. In 1880 there wpre no fewer than 1,140 strokes. They are most frequent in tho hottest months of the year, June and July, and in the hottest honrs of the day or those following them (from 8 to 4 p. m.) It appears that the thunderstorms proceed from the hills, and the parts of their course most liable to be struck are woodless and flat places, valleys of rivers and low meadows, near lakes, while wooded and hilly districts generally escape. This last deduction is hardly in accordance with our popular ideas on the subject. London Globe. |