Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-06-07
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 .,.,. About Celestial Ar EP''p,1 rayIous performances in Pn' ..dsd Flvid Has Indulsea ! lightning Rods.
 bureau has been doing .ieeT ..iie,siatins S1l of late on ths sub kht9laSs- ltD three persons struck ;,,,o by 7 fery y.asviye srz and recover. The aF9 FI9,strlelty spl in a thunderbolt I elso't.ffbe seat fbe experts say but its b ltssaIneIy glsae high, and that is ezslsldiamrI lsn damage. It is rather '1is ts.t so little should be \ ! 'nIS tbe nature of the fluid g .,ob sDe common and everyday suvr suge if would be as easy fauas u.a,.s,4bo,It water as without .at %'ff tbe fluid is still called &.rIous,o s5o inasmueh as its sd sllVggo Vngrgooperties are to a great aa |RaaIr' p10P The latest and the a5 ag theory 5 on the subject is || ss sbt if is a form of motion. st puzzles the experts a,ts < al discover the nature of the |sIprtrieity p,9lf which are con- Zsttine up strange capers, \ D4S tSis description, though .I, so termed, have been .stiaclally in Germany, by 1ssses of Yapor with cleo after the famous experi- Er.nklIn with a kite, investi. Esrious parts of the world |sIs performance. One of \ Prof. Riehman, a we'll ZBrtIst of St. Petersburg. He # In drawing tue lightning in ratory, but the result was Zs inasmuch as 6 fiery ball a mans fist suddenly ap- sbe room, leaped from the zs0nduetor to his head and
 The occurrence was de- # m assistant, who stated |alI was blue.
 years there has arisen a bt as to the value of light
 This distrust has arisen FOm the fact that buildings tn lightning rods have on Hsions been destroyed. After btning rod is only a con. ||s6 is able to carry only a bunt of the electric fluid. If zI1he of electricity comes Il Bv, like a torrent that over, banks of the channel de , and the result is disaster. < tbe best evidences of the skbtning rods up to date has sei by the Washington monu 2 X capped by a small four nid of aluminium, which eap today, was very costly p of the building of the hlisk that the world has
 This aluminium tip is con.
 tue ground by four copper
 go down deep into the E NAprii 5, 1885, five immense ctrieity were seen to flash . monument and a thunder aAanging in the course ot AGtes. In other words, the
 was struck fiercely five | suffered no damage what lne l5, of the same year, s Endous assault was made
 nument from the heavens alt was a fracture of one ot W stones. The crack still re.
 W Whst nature can do in
 an electric shock, but the
 the damage is evidence o1
 to protect himself from
 The obelisk is ideally
 attracting electrical as,
 the skies, and yet, while
 hit, it has suffered only
 At time to a trifiing extent
 vessels used often to bt # #esAtAii'p dnd the loss by
 aS Very great. From 179C
 Wer than 2S0 ships of the
 were struek, 100 men be
 la 25O injured. Nowadays
 well as big merchant yes.
 llnlng rods running dowr
 and inc the sea so that
 is carried off. Tn these
 hears of the destruction
 " lightning. Churches arc
 most commonly struck
 ia or a certain church ir
 Rlen was hit by lightning
 ules 2 year on an average
 uelng stopped in summer
 i' \ rod was put on the
 Nere Vas no more trouble