The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-14

it laughs and howlS worse than a million
maniacs with the same number of stea m
calliopes. Whatever the cyclone was in
tended for, it is success, and it is the
most unreliable thing in the world, tearing
things where the least expected, and leav-
ing things that would naturally be knocked
out. 1t will start in Kansas or Iowa and
seem to be going to Dakota, when the first
thing the people Of Kentucky know it has
dropped down on poor mans cabin, teIe-
scoped church steeple or two, jumping
Illicit or other distilleries, and landing on
saw-mill at Oshkosh, Wis, without
stopping to take breath, and after playing
ten pins with smoke-StackS roofs, lumber
yar(s and things, it will start back for its
lair in the far West only dropping down
occasionally to smash a barn like an egg
shell, or pick up a house and set it down
with the cellar on top 1t will pass by
thousand of the meanest men in all Chris
tendon without ruffiing a feather of them,
and jump on the most patient, honest, large
hearted pious gentleman in the State, pick
him up with his horse and buggy, and after
carrying the outfit mile, spill the good
man out and then drop the horse and buggy
on top of him. The cyclone seems to go
to. work the most carelessly, and knock
things the most Systematically Of any ami
nal or reptile on earth. The cyclone may
be an aerial humorist, a funny result of the
monkeying of "Old Probabilities" but
where the fun is in picking an unripe
church steeple and running it point first
right through brewery full Of lager beer
that will be ripe a week LATER spilling the
beer and spelling the steeple by making 1t
smell bad, is more than anybody is able to
find out. And yet the cyclone must nave
been created for some useful purpose.
Nothing is made in vain, except pugilists,
and SO the cyclone must have a mission.
1t may be that the funnel-shaped cloud,
with its yellowish green advance guard of
clouds has been produced in order to call
the attention of bad men, and brighten
them into good behavior 1t is said by
those who seem to be converSant with the
facts that many citizens of Oshkosh and
other places where the wicked are known
to exist actually were SO frightened as to
pray on the evening the cyclone struck,
last week. If the cyclone is intended for
that purpose, it is well, but people should
begin praying before cyclone actually
strikes, as it is everlastmgly too late when
house falls on you. One Oshkosh man
who had never prayed before, it is general
ly believed, had queer experience the
first time he tried, but he may hold out
faithful. He had been bad man. quite
hard drinFer, and he wore bad hat as
most Oshkosh men do. He heard the cy-
clone and looked out the summer kitchen
and saw it, and he got right down on his
knees He was about to say something
pertinent to the occasion, when the kitchen
was lifted bodily from over him. With
his hair standing straight up, and his eyes
starting from their sockets, he rushed out
i'll the street, when two trees fell near him,
and he lodged. into an alley, just in time to
escape being stabbed by the iron smoke
stack Of saw mill, which struck just be.
hind him. He ran into lumber yard,
when the lumber chased him out of there,