Show at S sea an electric storm at sea is one of the tha alarming experiences to which a mariner is is exposed but as a matter of record itis it ia that is least fruitful in disastrous results As a rule few precautions aro taken to guard against a stroke of lightning especially in the merchant service ships of war are usually fitted with lightning lightn irig conductors a pre precaution cauti on made necessary by tho the explosives stored away in their magazines but these safeguards are seldom seen on a merchant vessel and judging by the extreme extrema rarity of the cases where they have navy been struck jacks claim that he is safer on the ocean than on shore dur in an electrical disturbance must be admitted it is a well established theory that one caught in a thunderstorm should not take shelter under a tall trea especially if it stands in a clearing why aig lightning ning should strike an isolated piece of timber oo on shore and spare it after it hm has been converted into a vessels mast is ret V I 1 t to be satisfactorily explained now hew york rk times |