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Show Lightning Thought to Drill Hole in Glass If any reader should llnil one of his window panes perforated by a perfectly perfect-ly round hole, wit hunt apparent cause, the lirs! question he should ask Is. Ilns there been a thunderstorm in this neighborhood recently? If the answer Is In the iillinnat ive. he may conclude that Jupiter Tonatis, the lord of the thunderbolts. In playful mood has sent one of 1 1 1 cut through the glass. In ordinary English, the pane bus been struck by lightning. That Is what probably happened to the plate glass window of u New York building recently. A minute hole appeared ap-peared mysteriously In the glass. Three employees were at work Inside the window, ami nil three beard a distinct dis-tinct report. lYrtlelcs of glass fell on one of them. Search failed to reveal re-veal any build or other object that might have can ed the hole. II seems to have been due to one of Hie mys lerlous pranks of lightning. |