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The Daily Dispatch: July 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Yankee lightning rods. (search)
In the latter days, when Yankee cupidity went for saving everything, the amount of iron put in them was so contracted that spectacles were required to trace the minute thread of metal that was set up to ward off the lightning's effects. While very few "strikings" are recorded of the old sort of rod, the lightning seems to want no better fun than to play all sorts of mad pranks with the fragile substance that has supplanted the substantial rod of the olden time. The private dwelling of Mr. E. Y. Stokes, located on Church Hill, which has been for some time past embellished with one of the new-fangled lightning rods, was struck by lightning during the storm on Saturday last. The members of the household were in the third story when the shock came. The fluid traveled down uninterrupted to the second story, when, coming in contact with a globular mass of glass, it entered the house by a small orifice on the outside, which increased to good dimensions before it broke through. When in th