occurred here lately. The thunder which we had on the Queen's birthday split a man, aged 40 years, while under a vine outside one of the gates of the Southern city. A few days previously we had much thunder and vivid lightning followed by a fall of over wu inch of rain. On this occasion, too, a lad in n joiner's shop, aged 18 years, was also struck by lightning and killed. The Chinese expression is "death by being split by thunder."
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