Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-12-11
1T WILL BLOW GREAT GUNS.
Chunks of Wisdom from Prof. Anderson Of
"ThG British Lion"

Chunks Of Wisdom from Prof Anderson Of
"ThG British Lion.'
Twenty-Five persons were gathered
Garnett hall, West Twenty-Seventli
street, at 8 o'clock last evening. A
few of them were colored, and most
of them were well dressed, intelligent
people. Sealskin coats and diamonds
were visible among the ladies, who
composed about half the audience.
Everybody in the room was reading
with much seriousness The British Lion
newspaper. Prof. Charles Augustus
johnson was folding more of The Lions
from table loaded down with them,
which stood back of the lecture. stand.
He was very black and wore scraggy
sidc-whskcrs connected by u mus
tachc. He gave copy of The Lion to
everybody who came INTO the hall.
When all had been supplied he ad-
vanccd in front of the lccturc-stand,
placed the foretinger and thumb of his
right hand against the foreiingcr and
thumb of his left, rested both on his
stomach, leaned his head on one side
in an argumentative manner, and
looked for some moments with sever.
Ity at n man with shock head OF
bristling iron.gray hair, who sat on the
third bench from the front Suddenly
the lower portion Of the professor 5
face was rent by smile which showed
hi uiJn "a hiv tnru hank IA hiu nnr. Jn
said:
II am well aware that | am very
handsome Young man, so am pretty
sure to make n good first impression.
| lcctwed in this hall three years ago
on the subject of Thunder, and | then
made some very startling statements.
| said, among other things, that thun-
der kills more people than lightning.
! am now going to lecture on The
Hiding-Placo of the Winds. | invite
the faculty of Columbia college and
all the scientific men to hear me.
"What is the wind? viii any gem
tlcman in the audience answer me
that? Now, hold that the wind is n
material. There is the north wind
and the east winG and the monsoon.
Some winds are very bad and danger
Gus. could bring You any amount of
facts to show that the wind is danger.
ous 1t blew down stceplc in Enr-
land and IT pulled the feathers ont Of
some birds out west that were llyipg
to Denver. Near Vichv. in Franco f
knocked a man down and scnsclcss,
and when he came ia he Thought he
had had a fit or something. That man
was mistaken, If was the wind that
hit him.
"Now." said the professor. shaking
his head dcprecatinrly. "will anyone
tell me that the wind is not danger.
ousP" He looked around triumpbont.
ly. and the audience hung lis head in
guilt.
..Witbiu six months " he con,inucd.
.you will have tbc most terrible wind
hrrc in Now York known in fftccn
Years. II will blow 1jO miles an hour
and will continue TO increase for
ciohtecn hours and twcntv.two soc.
onds | am sorry | do not see INV
mariners present sn thcv could bcoy
about This and look ont for their shins
In A month and Il half after that Won
will have another terrible wind hGtv.
it will blow down steeples and things.
[ wish could tell YOU what it will dc
to the people, but cant. 1t is too
bad.
"Now. there is n very diStinouishcd
scientific man down in Richmond who
holds that the earth is four-corncred.
| am inclined to think he is right.
But who controls the wind? | will
tell you. In the first place il is the
Deity, and in the second place il is the