New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-27

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LIeHrnso.-THE NKw-YoRK TRIBUNE Of June l6
contains some remarks entitled Than-
der Cloud. which 1t suggested that lightning Is not more
frequent In late years. aad that cities are COM
psrayeIy exe lightning disasrs My record OF hgnt
npg of deaths res and other results OF Lightning
extend long period Of time and large geographical
expanse containing many facts which are instructive Inc
of the abundance Of lightning Of late with
that of former years difficult In the month Of July 1884,
lightning active and engaged in its usual occupations within
The field my research twenyour Of the thiyone days
that month and probable that In the seven days OF wnicn
have no record Of M might have been engaged on
some parts earh surface beyond the field OF inves
gstons tina, memorable period when the presence fths
and the hhnngs required to attest the pronu
ration of The of Sinai these witnesses have been constantly
on the earth delivering their testimony Of the continuance of
that law Ike all other created agents OF the Almighty the
hunde and the ghnngs have their alternate periods Of labor
and such labor and such rest are In accordance with
the great laws Of nature.
The home Of the lightning the clouds Of the atmosphere
and that great antiquity said of the cloud that
obedent the commands Of the Most High was turned
BY His government was sometimes sent Tor coeccn
sometimes mercy and sometimes for the invsorang OF the
land 1t abors with those Of the solar In
producing rainbow of the cloud where Is in bright col
or. the autograph of GoD Some cities are comparatively en-
emp. lightning shocks and within the time covered by my
Of death by lightning In Boston appears In
nv records and rarely that the lightning strikes in that
city, while In neighboDg towns around Boston it Is FREE
ou.n visitor and In Essex Salem frequently as
to excite In NewHaven, NewYork Brooklyn, Phis-
dephia Baltimore Mobile New Orleans Cincinnati and Bua
To- htuns strikes frequently and have recorded many deaths
by lightning each and all Of those ce In Greenwood Gem
etery occupying four hundred and fifty acres Of land the Light
ming struck but five times during period OF nineteen years.
n u, divided into sections OF four hundred aud
6y each record kept OF the number OF times the
struck each during long cycle Of years the means
of would be afforded which would enable person
toleaby correct judgment In relation to this branch OF
the subject
In nv juvenile days oueyed extensively IN the great West
when was great Wilderness and searched and made in
ours of the in the forest In relation to the frequency Of
their being scahed by lightning In section Of the country
unusual number Of trees which had been visited oy
LIGHTNING and named the place Thunder and Lightning Ridge,
and supposed that contained iron and this ore had IN
yed lightning upon the trees but subsequent observations
convinced that conclusion was erroneous Tor tne
scahed occupied the OF water she'd and hence s
being subject frequent yaons OF lightning In my tours
TO the tops high mountains have sought for trees that have
been struck by lightning but have found even one upon
high mountain peaks great elevation above the sea In the
Mammoth Cave Of Kentucky never saw the light oil an electric
nor voice Of the thunder and have made
inquiries of sbores who have worked In that cave Tor many
wears digging nitrous earth with which that abound and
of
the The stmophere of dry and OF the uniform
degrees Fahrenheit throughout the The
aboers that exempt nom sickness It's atmosphere
1. easy of respiration and eneny supports combustion In
that pueacion and decomposition unknown
Beneath the of the great cannot follow the
lghtpine rapid flight tell wheher burns with
In the bosom mighty deep extinguished by the saline
fluid ii passes beneath the surface Of the ony
flood am however, inclined to believe that 1t exerts no
power beneath the surface Of the water within its body
Whittier the lightning is solid fluid vspo or an
substance we have of knowing but the per
fatons sometimes makes In solid bodies In all cases where
have opportunity of examining always Of circular
FORM aud sometimes proving s ability to assume d.
visibility like mercury small gobues The lightning some
times sleeps volcanic and has been known TO be
panon Of iron when of audy produced by intense
heat Lightning sometimes performs the office Of the
in msgnetzng steel and cast Ion and the ability OF
submaDg metals and thus producing OF the most beau
fu colors known in nature.
Ipbtpng like Ice may possess the ability to change from
solid to fluid from fluid yspor and that yapo may become
ethereal Such nature, mysterious and wonderful and yet
water and vspo in changing and rechanng present
simple and instructive illustrations My long compsuonship
with lightning phenomena have made familiar
habits its abors and ito powers 1t oftenmes exhibits
power discrimination that would be bright adjoining 70 the
beet faculties Of the mind. do think it has like the
any quickenng power but have record Of thun
der storm lightning of which produced nsaoiy and Of
other thunder storm which followed it, the lightning OF which
restored the insane mind to sanity would extend
this communication great length say In relation
this wonderful meteor to follow records in the
time and speak the doiugs of the lightning should
impose upon myself and the reader labor But cannot
conclude this article long It s. without saying that in my
humble opinion lightning rod properly constructed,
failed protect against lightning and could get other
would use wire larger than knitting needle and feel sale
during thunder Storm relying upon its ability to protect
D Z. MERRIAM.
.l.e PLEURO-PNEUMONIA.