Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 51, 16 November 1893 — Lightning. [ARTICLE]

Lightning.

It is estimated by a competent anthoritv that one’s chauces of bein" stmck by lightning in a storm are as one in ten thousand. This anght to be a comfortable factfor those who dwell indistricts where electric storms are frequent. The sarae anthoritv gives a list of | objects and places to be avoided in thnnderstorm*, aml the list iuclndes trees, raasts, high poles. lofty buildings, spires and steeples, wnter, stove pipes, bell wires, iron fencea, crowds of peo- ; ple. droves of cattle, orotber animals. ambrellas, waiking sticks. aml metal ornaments wora upon the body. The conclusion to be drawu from this is that tbe best thing to do in an electric storm Ls to put on your bathing snit and go out and sit in a paddock. thonch how one ean even then avoid water in a storm it is di£5cult to see. There is comfort in tbe thought, however, that nine persons out of ten who are struck by lightning are never aware of ihe fact.