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Show SOME PRANKS OF LIGHTNING. Fantastic Tricks Played Upon Unfortunate Unfor-tunate Victims. Ono of tho fantastic tricks which lightning piny s upon Its unfortunnto victims Is n kind of flnshlight photography. pho-tography. There nro numerous Instances In-stances of this which aro moro or loss "authenticated," hut thoy seoni almost too wonderful to bo bollovcd. Ono of thoso Is of a young man In Now Jorsoy who wns struck by lightning and wns taken In nn ambulanco to tho hospital at once. Thero scorned to bo no wound oxcopt n small mark on tho buck, but whllo tho doctors and nurses woro examining him n plcturo began to dovolop on tho skin. Soon boforo tho wondering eyes of tho wntchors appeared a perfect plcturo of tho flguro of Christ nailed to tho cross. Tho explanation Is thnt on tho wall opposito tho bed on which tho young man lny was tho plcturo which was roproducod on his skin. Another Instnnco Is of a man who was struck by lightning, and on his chest woro rod marks rcsombllng tho troo with all Its branches under which tho man was standing when ho was killed. From Franco comes tho story of n peasant girl who wns driving a cow from tho pasturo when sho wait ovortakon by n storm, nnd slio and tho cow took rcftigo undor tho treo. A bolt killed tho cow nnd stunned tho girl. Whon sho rccovorod conscious-noas conscious-noas sho found on her cliost n picture of tho cow sho hnd boon driving. Tho chatelnlno of tho castlo of Uonntonnnlro was sitting In n chair In hor salon when tho chntcnu wns struck by lightning. Sho wns qulto uninjured, but on tho back of hor dress wns found a perfect copy of tho chnir on which hIio had been sitting, down to its mlnutoBt ornament, These nro a fow of tho many strango pranks which lightning plnyn upon us. |