Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-05-20
Daguerreotypes by Lightning.

A country woman has recently arrived
in Paris, froIa the department of Seine
ct Marine, who should be presented to the
Academy of Sciences. This woman was
q short time since watching q COW in an
open field, when a violent storm arose.
She took refuge under a tree, which. at
the instant, was struck by lightning the
cow was killed, aud she was feIled 10 the
earth senseless. where she was soon after
found, the storm having ceased with the
fash which felled her. Upon renewing
her clothing, the exact image Of the COW
killed by her side was found distinctly
impressed upon her bosom.
This curious phenomenon is not with
ont precedent. DR.. franklin mentions
the case of a man who was standing in
the door of q house in a thunderstorm,
and who was looking at a tree directly
before him, when it was struck by light
ming. On the mans breast was left a per
feet daguerreotype Of the tree.
In 1871, a magistrate and a miller's
boy were struck by lightning near a pop
lar tree, in one of the provinces of France
and upon the breast of each were found
spots exactly resembling the leaves of the
poplar.
A a meeting of the French Academy
of Sciences, January 2Sth, 1857, it was
stated that a wona of Lugano, seated at
a window during a storm. was suddenly
shaken by some invisible power. She ex-
perienced no inconvenience from this,
but afterwards discovered that a blossom
apparently torn from a tree by a light
ming stroke, was completely imaged upon
one of her limbs, and it remained there
till her death.
In September, 1926, the brigantine II
Buon-Servo Yves anchored in the Almiro
Bay, at the entrance OF the Adriatic Sea,
where she was struck by lightning. In
obedience to a superstition, the lonian
sailors had attached a horseshoe to the
mizzen-mast, as a charm against evil.
When the vessel was struck, a sailor who
was seated by this mast was instantly
killed. There were no marks of bruises
upon his person, but the horse shoe was
perfectly pictured upon his back.
A Spanish b~rigantine was once struck
in the Rade de Zante. Five sailors were
Ut tI0 pFOW-CuTG6 VI bH6ul AWAKE anu
two of them sleeping. One Of the latter
was killed, and upon undressing him, the
figures A, plain and well formed, were
found under his left breast. His comrades
declared that they were not there before
his death, but their original was found in
the rigging Of the vessel. But the most
singular facts connected with this affair,
are set forth in the report Of the physi-
clan, Dicapulo, who says: After undress,
ing the young sailor, we found a band of
linen tied about his body, in which were
gold pieces and two parcels done up in
paper. The one Oh the right side con-
tanned a letter from Spain, three guineas,
and two half guineas the other, a letter
four guineas, a half guinea, and two
smaller pieces. Neirher the pieces, the
paper, nor the linen presented the least
appearance of fire. But upon his right
shoulder were six distinct circles, which
preserved the natural color, and appeared
as though traced upon the black skin.
These circles, which all touched at ore
poiat, were Of three different sizes, and
exactly c~orresponded with the gold pieces
in the right side of his belt.