If we follow the track of lightning through rooms, very singular effects may be seen on the furniture. Chests of drawers and wardrobes are gutted, and the contents pulled out and strewn about the room. In the middle of August, 1887, a house at Francines, near Limoges, was struck by lightning. It fell in a room where the master of the house was in bed. He felt a terrific shock, and saw his eiderdown pierced through and through by the perfidious fluid, and a chest of drawers with all its contents broken. Continuing on its way, the lightning demolished the door and entered another room. A man who was asleep in it was killed. His wife by his side and his little girl felt nothing, but _a pillow on which one of them had her head was thrown to a distance_. Finally, the meteor went through the floor, broke a large clock on the ground floor, setting fire to everything on its way. On June 1, 1903, a fulminant ray fell on the church of Cussy-la-Colonne (Côte d'Or). To start, it turned the clock tower upside down, broke a clock, then opened a cupboard in the sacristy in which there were various articles, and broke them all. In April, 1886, lightning did great damage in the church at Montredon (Tarn). It demolished the steeple to an extent of three metres, several bells, and carried the enormous iron bar which supported them a long way off. The roof of the church was burst in and the tiles were pulverized in several places by the falling masonry. In the interior a bench was broken, an image of Christ reduced to powder, and a metal image of St. Peter twisted. We may remark, by the way, that churches are very often struck by lightning, doubtless owing to the height of the steeple above the edifice. We have innumerable notes about ruined steeples, turrets knocked off, the plundering of priestly objects. Sculptures and pictures adorning the sanctuary are often destroyed, and the altar itself shattered. Cases of priests struck while officiating are not uncommon. As for the faithful killed while at church, they may be counted by the hundred. Without wishing to call lightning a miscreant or an infidel, one is obliged to confess it fails in respect for holy places. However, the quips and cranks of lightning observed in dwellings are no less varied and curious. Here are some remarkable accounts:--