Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-28
SAFETY FROM LIGHTNING.
A Learned Professor Says 1t is Found Next to a
Good Conductor.

A Learned Professor Says 1t is Found Next to a
Good Conductor.
New York Commercial Advertiser
"What is the safest place during q
| thunder Storm" was asked of a professor
versed IN electricity.
SWELL" said he, "to be surrounded by
dry air is considered i'm porFant for safety.
| 1t is owing to the resistance the lightning
meets with when passing through the air
that we are made sensible of It's effects.
| We see 1t Il ashiDg among the clouds; we
hear it as thunder In its passage, and
| when We are near an electrical machine
during its excitement, or when a near
Hghtn1ng's current, we can feel, smell and
taste it. Thunder is roise evidently
caused by the rapid motion of the cleo
tricity, thereby producing vacuum and
prolonged by echo among the clouds. If
your house has a properly constructed
| lightning conductor, the safest place in
the room is adjacent TO the rod.
| "But if your house has no conductor, it
| is safer to retire to the middle of the
room and sit in a recumbent position
during the height of the storm, havin g
first shut all doors and wind lws to pre-
serve the air inside as dry as possible.
| The common caution not to stand near a
| lightning rod, stove funnel, or iron fence,
etc, is erroneous, for if the metals you
stand or sit by reach above your head or
| to the floor or into the ground sufficient
depth, you are mnch safer in such a stu
alton than otherwise. A building prop
erly provided with lightning rods is a
safe retreat during thunderstorm.
THE InportanE Discoveries in the Nile
a ltyIt N zot Nf
| the tenn pie of Best at Bubastis made un-
der the auspices or the Egypt explor-
alton fund, deserve at least a passing
notice. The ruins of Bubastis are per
haps three score miles from Carlo, near
| the modern town of Z4kazik. Herodotus
gives close and vidid dIscri ption of the
wonderful temple of Best, but the exact
site was not discovered till last year. Mr..
| Nav1ll, one Of the directors of the task
| of excavation, worked among the ruins
| for month, and then found that the
temple was situated in the middle of
| these ruins, in depression of the soil
running from east TO west, and from 700
| to 800 feet long. The most sacred shrine
| at the western end was approached by
halls decorated with statues of Egyptian
kings aud with pictured feasting scenes,
such as Herodotus knew about. Best
was, If not the greatest at least the most
popular goddess in Egypt. She was
| Diana, Aphodite and Hecate all in one,
and was most often represented with a
| cats head, the cat being her sacred
animal. The visitor at Bubastis sees
the remains of the temple nearly laid
bare, and among the fragments are rep
resented every important epoch in
Egyptian history from the sixth to the
Both dynas t1es,-a period of 5000 years.
An especially interesting relic is the
torso of wholly unknown king of the
Hyksos cast, named "LanRa" or IRA
ian, shadow worshiper. Il is thong ht,
by rather stretch of fancy, that this
may be a statue OF the Pharaoh of
Joseph's time, whose Moslem name Is
Reiyan, SOD of El-Welid. The temple
stands on low, wet, compact soil, with no
rock foundation. 1t will be necessary to
finish the work before the annual rise of
the Nile; since then the whole place will
be flooded and much harm done.
The story of the Cape Cod youth who
spent a week in finding 10 cents on the
street in Boston has brought the listener
another story of Cape Cod boy who
must have been a relative of that one. H
happened to be visiting in Boston,
good while ago, on the Fourth of July,
and went out on the common to see the
sights. He returned IN an hoHr or two
looking rather ruefol. whats the mat
ter, Silat?" he was asked. 'Gosh all
hemlocks!" be exclaimed, ssthis is the
most extravagant place 1 ever see."
'Whst has happened?" "WsI, you know
tLat quarter of dollar you give me this
morningf" eyes. Wen?" Spent il,
by hockey. ell but % cents, slap dash for
moIasses cakesf"
If one should have no turnips Dor pars-