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it reached here it would have lefl a the .sofa. George W. Brown, Editor 

 mark of some kind and I do not see of Arizona-New Mexico Workman, 

 why it should explode like a rami. mi. \ i ar g e ^ tree uas s t ruc k near 

 I have read of blazing bodies being the top by a terrific bolt that practi- 

 seen rushing across the sky in broad ca n v shattered the tree. I happened 

 daylight and exploding with sound >>i lo be i 00 ki n g at tne tree at the mo- 

 thunder bul they are, so far as I know, mcnt of the stroke a large, luminous, 

 always described as leaving a trad oi gri ow ing ball hovered for some mo- 

 lighl behind them. \\ hat I saw was ments j ust at the point where the sub _ 

 a ball oi dull red color flying com- sequent observations would indicate 

 paratively slowly, leaving no trad of th?t the tree was struck 



hi- ht, making no sound through the 1/r , . . n . ™. , 



■ i i- 4. u: -, .. ,f ,,„a J '^y home is in Georgia. The fore- 

 air, exploding: on touching a point and . J , ,, , n . & 



i,i o^i^ ^Ao^, ,o^e going and the following experiences 



leaving no mark to be seen aiterwards. & & , • r , .? j 



The only conclusion I can arrive at is ™ e l e u d ™« aft 5 rn ? on thunderstorms. 



that what I saw must have been some . The budding is of two large rooms a 



form of electricity.— F. D. Moore, hal1 between, and open fireplaces at the 



Lindsay, Ontario, Canada. outside ends of the two rooms. When 



During the summer of 1864. while both hall doors, or door from the rooms 



residing at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to the hall > are open, the two open 



I witnessed the rare phenomenon of a fireplaces are in line, facing each other, 



freak of globular lightning which may A bolt struck the lightning rod on the 



be worthy of record. north chimney, and instantly a lumi- 



My house facing the east, had its nous ball, fully two feet in diameter, 



doors and windows open one Sunday rushed through the house and disap- 



afternooh when a thundershower came peared when reaching the open hearth 



up. Seated about the room were my of the south chimney. No shock or 



wife, her sister and mother, two visi- scorching were felt or observed. No 



tors, gentlemen who were to enter- furniture or person were in the path 



tain us with violin and piccolo, and of the fireball. — Walter Hill, 302 Broad- 



myself. In the center of the room was way, New York City. 



a table with cover hanging low, upon 



which a newspaper had been careless- 

 ly thrown by myself as the visitors Preservation of City Trees. 

 entered. The "American Association for the 



During the shower, plainly seen by Planting and Preservation of City Trees" 



°very person in the room, a ball of has been organized in Brooklyn, New 



lightning, apparently about five or six York. 



inches in diameter, came through the It j s evident that "Conservation" 



doorway brushed against the table ncceS sity applies to the city. The 



cover sufficiently to sway it back and ap p e al savs • 



forth, causing the newspaper to fall to l(rr , , , , . . , . 



the floor, then, turning at a sharp angle +1 Th< i ne ? d ° f su ? a movement T ls felt 



to the left, passed under a sofa in front throughout the entire country. In our 



of a fireplace and apparently passed up ° 1 wn Clt y we are cnt } m - down a nnually 



and out of the chimney. A terrific clap J/ ee times the number of trees planted, 



of thunder followed closely, and the T ' ie ""Sightly appearance of vacant 



rain fell in torrents for several min- P^ts before the homes of this city is 



utes. Every person in the room felt fast becoming too numerous and the 



the force of the shock in greater or tltter barrenness of some of our city 



lesser degree, one of the ladies being blocks is much to be regretted. In 



rendered unconscious for a few min- other Clt i es conditions are no better, 



utes, and it was later found that the indeed, in many instances are much 



strings of the violin were all broken, worse. 



presumably by the action of electricity Anyone desiring to help should ad- 



as the fiery globe passed between the dress Miss H. M. Walker, 258 Argyle 



two gentlemen who were sitting on Road, Brooklyn, New York. 



