The San Francisco call., 1906-08-05

seems to have a special prediction
for shoes; it seldom respects them,
even when it spares other garments
Shoes and boots are removed. unsewn,
unnailed, cut to pieces and thrown far
away with extraordinary violence.
Very often the discharge penetrates the
human body through the head and
leaves it by the feet.
During a violent storm June 8, 1858.
o workman near the Jardin des Plantes
was knocked down by an irresistible
force and. deprived of his senses. He
was picked up and carried home; on be-
ing examined his body bore no trace of
wound. When he recovered he re-
membered that he had worn boots at
the time of the accident. These were,
found in the street; the soles had the
nails completely removed, although
they were screwed in and the boots
were nearly new.
"A workman was killed May 81, 1909.
at Villemontoire, and his shoes were
never found. A young shepherd, watch
ing his flock in the fields. was knocked
down by a bolt When he recovered
he found that his boots and cap had
disappeared.
Lightning sometimes undertakes
therapeutic agencies and effects re-
/ narkable cures A woman who had
been paralyzed thirty-eight years sud
denly, at the age of Al, recovered the
use of her legs after a stroke of light
ming.
"A paralytic had been taking the
curative waters of Tunbridge Wells for
twenty years. when the spark touched
him and cured him of his terrible in
trinity.
lightning has sometimes worked
marvels on the blin~, deaf and dumb.
to whom it restores sight, hearing and
/ speech. A man who had the whole of
his left side paralyzed from infancy
was struck in his room. After some
days he gradually and permanently re-
covered the use of his limbs. A weak
ness of the right eye also disappeared
and he could write without spectacles.
On the other hand, he became deaf.
Indeed, if we are to believe stories
which appear to be authentic, cold, a
tun,or and rheumatism have been cured
by lightning"
Some of the curious pranks played b.
! lightning are related in the opening
chapter of the book:
"a young woman was in the field
during a storm, when suddenly there
appeared at her feet globe of fire
about the size of a billiard ball.
Slipping along the ground, this little
freball reached her feet. caressed
/ them, as it were, made it's way under
her clothes, issued again from the mid
die of her bodice, and, still keeping its
globular form, darted off into the air
and exploded noisily. The woman was
unharmed.
I'm 1897 at Linguy a man and his
wife were sleeping quietly when sud
/ denly a terrible crash made them jump
out of bed. They thought their last
hour had come. The chimney, broken
to pieces, had fallen, and it's wreckage
filed the room. Bricks from one wall
had been dashed horizontally against
the wall opposite with such force that
they were imbedded in it. A looking
! glass, detached from the wall, stood
on end whole and delicately balanced.
"A chair near the bed, upon which
clothing had been placed, had been
spirited away to spot near the door
A small lamp and box of matches were
undamaged upon the floor. An old gun
suspended from a beam, was violently
shaken and lost it's ramrod.
The bolt passed into an adjoining
dairy, where 1t carried a whole row OF
milk cans full of milk from one side
of the room to another, breaking the
lids, but not upsetting single can
1t carried away the top from a small