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Queer Things Dohn In a Twinkling by the Subtle Field. James Craig, a Scottish servant employ ed by Elias Rogers, a carpenter who re sides at Allentown, N. J., was the victim of a queer prank of lightning a few years ago. He was sitting in the kitchen broil ing a pieces of meat over the fre, and a Heroe thunder storm was raging without. A flash of lightning struck the house and the electric current came down the chim ney, knocked Craig senseless, and threw the meat and spider into another room. Craig was given up for dead, but in an hour came to and stated that he had not been insensible since the second when the shock occured, but had been unable to wave a muscle, although he had heard everything that was going on about him. His left aide was badly burned and one of his shoes was torn from his fo and found nearly twenty feet from where he sat when the house was struck. Two poculist cases of death by electrici ty occurred in Asbury Park a few years ago, and the story is oft teld there. James Young and Henry Brooke, two house painters were at work on the exterior of a cottage on Weasley Lake when terrific thunder storm came up. They fled to the interior of the house, and after the storm had passed and the sno was again shining they went back to their scaffold. Just as each paint touched his brush to the wet woodworks dash of lightning came, followed quickly by a crash of thunder, and a workmar in a nearby house saw both of them fall. Shortly afterward it was discovered that both men were dead, although their bodies bore no marks, save dull biack lines about the fingers which held the paint brushes. One day last summer a 6-year-old child in a Connecticut town was playing in the garret during a severe thunder storm. A chimney was struck. The bolt ran down the side of the house to the ground. The family were extremely frightened, but un harmed. They missed the golden-haired darling of the house, but soon found him, uninjured but completely dazed. But In stead of yellow curls, the child’s hair was changed to a jetty black. A queer experience befell Mise Jennies Batton, of Springfield, Maes., ledt fall, when a residences on Florida street was struck by lightning. Mise Batton was standing in her room with a hat in har band when the current shattered the door frame within a few feet of her. The shock knocked ‘her’down, and for some time afterward she was deaf in consequence. An examination of the hat showed that the lightning had skeletonized the feather on her hat completely, Miss Cora Kirkland, who was standing down stairs to the dining room at the time of this shock, held a knife in her hand, and the shock drove the knife through one of her fingers, cutting it to the bone. Love to an office. “Darling Beasie,’’ said Mr. Hoover to his lady typewriter, ‘‘will you marry me? Since you have come like a gleam of sun shine to gladden my existence I have lived in the adunt light of your ethereal pres ence and passionately——”’ “Please speak a little slower, Mr. Hoover,” said the fair typewriter, inter rupting him, while her fingers continued to fly over the keys of her machine. * Ethereal—presence—passionately.’ Now I am ready to proceed.” “Great Scott ! Miss Caramel,” exclaim ed her employer, “you are not taking down my offer of marriage on that infer nal typewriter, are you ! ” “A proposal!” shrieked Miss Caramel. “Why, so it is, I didn’t notice. I thought you were dictating. Forgive me, dear William. I am yours. And now, since I have made this foolish blunder, please sign this paper and I will keep it as a memen to.”’ The marriage took place according to contract,— Chicago None. Valley Iron Works. The Williamsport Gaestte and Bulletin saga. The Valley Ironworks of that city yesterday booked orders for four engines, aggregating two hundred and seventy horse power, three of which will be used for electric lighting in California; the fourth will be used in a flouring mill in this State. This company are having a large sale for their engines In the flouring mill trade, they have recently started complete rigs to the mills of A. C. Hopkins, Troy, Pa, Blank Gottshall, Sunbury, Pa, and Moyer Brighthill, Derry, Pa. They are now on their six hundredth engine since commending their manufacture several years ago. Williamsport needs more man ufactories of this kind. A Dark Street. Not a strees lamp on Main Street, above Third, was lighted last night, and yet it was a very dark night Why this neglect? People should give their houses plenty of ventilation these days. California will have the largest grape crop this year ever grown.
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Lock Haven Evening Express
Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Aug 22, 1889
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