Show NO MORE ROMANCE oi thunderbolts lua the into ra A borealis london atah in the course of a lecture on elac recently delivered in london dr marcet spoke especially on alinn 1 IS 11 ites one is only a piece of san broken by afie flash and a third carefully preserved in a museum is a cannon ball found alithe bottom of a bole in a manure heap after a flash 0 I 1 lightning had struck it iron py rites a peculiarly shaped piece of coal and bec inker from a kilborn fi re oil gine have all figured fit this and from being so carefully by their owners are evidently cliar wied as specimens uit 0 as re marka ble as they would b m ere their histo y les apocryphal or tubes formed by the fusing of sand here a current of elec lacity in lite shape of a lightning fault hag the grounds are abio in tho exhibition Ilu toven little for mystery the fire ball is only A flash in another forin so is sheet lightning chile tile remarkable kable tales of esc alses from death by atmos pherbe electricity prove how narrow is the current and how rapid N its action tito blade of a auw has been destroyed and tile handle while tile sawyer remained uninjured A lady had lite bracelet struck off her hand while she herself felt no moro than a shock another had tier bell ritt entirely burnt oil account of the wire its fraino was made of lille site herself was even objects entirely insulated irom tile ground are not safe for two sea gulls flying over witham were killed by lightning all these difficulties have to be considered in erecting lightning rods some of which are little better than trips to catch tile electric fluid when the householder permits so duj ant a means of protection to fail r the hands of an mechanic clail is not usually assoni I 1 q 1 1111 11 1 a thunder yet dr marret L be contrary and though lie is not lit blite ul AI boll dol Is that tho phoneme A attending a waterspout water spout can to explained hy III pet tier actris ehno lifting of waitr to W the of sin electra elec tri attraction bilier than tile action of the u ind but m liate ver conflict ol 01 opinion may be permissible on this polut it is clear that none Is allow ablo in degati to the bolilis australla aust ralls science iam deprived us of all tho adint or tho heathely hea teely I 1 to tn ballets about the mirits fighting in tile air or even of the v inter sun being reflected froin bouto vast glac j ars at tile backof I 1 lie north N ind rho aurora Is dagi to electricity from tile sa beleen the being into flig upper minos pharic regio tim and cheneo wafred wafted to the poles by file ingher currents of air idere dr marcel assures apt it descends toward the and meet the terrestrial negative Lu dis chaez now take place their bright floss ing bythe of masses of foreign particles esthe air and thus cje electrician deprives us of the liet of ro mail 0 o which clu ng to the most esque of northern atmospheric abe bomena I 1 |