The priest, who was celebrating mass, was not affected, it is believed, on account of his silken robe acting as an insulator.

Bryant of Charlestown, Mass., has communicated the particulars of a stroke of lightning on June 20, 1829, which shocked several hundred persons.

The effect of this discharge was felt over an area of 172,500 square feet with nearly the same degree of intensity.

Happily, there was no permanent injury recorded.

Le Conte reports that a person may be killed when some distance--even as far as 20 miles away from the storm--by what Lord Mahon calls the "returning stroke." Skin-grafting is a subject which has long been more or less familiar to medical men, but which has only recently been developed to a practically successful operation.