Show at sea an electric storm at sea is one of tho the alarming experiences to which a mariner is exposed but as a matter of record it Is ono one that is least fruitful in disastrous results As a rulo rule few precautions are taken to guard against a stroke of lightning especially in tho the merchant service ships of war are usually fitted with lightning conductors a precaution made necessary by the explosives stored away in their magazines dat but these safeguards are seldom seen on a merchant vessel and judging by the extreme rarity of the cases where they have been struck jacks claim that ho he is safer on the ocean than on shore during an electrical disturbance must bo be ad admitted mitteL it is awell a well established theory thavone that ono caught in a thunderstorm rin should not take shelter under a tall tree especially it if it stands in a clearing why lightning should strike an iscla seated ted piece of timber on shore and spare il it af after ter it has been converted into a vessels mast is yet to bo be satisfactorily explained I 1 new yori Z T times |