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Show DUCK8 KILLED BY LIGHTNING Remarkable Effect of Electrical Storm Near Nantes, France. An extraordinary effect of lightning Is reported from Lako Orandlleu, In tho Nantes region. A violent tempost burst over the lake, with vivid lightning light-ning and thunder. A number of boat,, woro on tho lako, and whilo thoy wero hurrying to bank thero wns a tremendous tre-mendous peal of thunder. Almost immediately im-mediately there fell among tho boats tho doad bodies of a large flock ot wild ducks, somo of them roasted to a nicety, and somo charred to a cinder. cin-der. Roast duck cooked by lightning reads llko a novelty, even in tho freaks of meteorology. If It could only be adapted to tho "quick lunch" system! |