St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1892-04-09
WHAT "A CYCLONE olo.

WAR a CYCLONE o'o.
issse - eeas-sAe& ia NsrtA Carsa1ns
sD1slaG . Gale.
A strollinx showman had Get mp his
tent near tie railroad depot in North
Carolina town. All along the front Of
the tent wsre pictures Of fat women.
ossined nei, boa-constrictors. living
skeletons. nSermaids and other choice
spring and GUNNER fabrics. and basi.
mesa promised to Be good Just before
noon = quetlr lr-looking cloud came up in
the southwe.k There was . roar and .
growl. and { young cyclone came tear
ing along. It blew down IN old mill
and . barnior two and then struck tho
tent When Il passed ON there wasn't
any tent lsft There wasn't any show
man there. There wasn't the slightest
trace of TT woman, living skeleton,
= Circassias girl or the only guyasti-
cutus ever born in captivity in North
America. he site was swept bare.
A crowd Of N went down from the
hotel - so,;n - Il was known that .
calamity hid occurred. and We began
searching. We found the proprietor
ten rods away. lying between two saw
logA He wasn't much hurt and -
soon as he had taken . nip Of whisky
he was ready to direct the search aftsr
his curiosi{i isA- The fat woman, who
WAS down Jon the bills - weighing
eight bundled pounds, was found In .
corndeld, Scross the railroad tracks.
She was es1 and bruised. but NO bones
were brokssn. Al she wss brought in
tho showmAn could hardly restrain his
tears
Look ~ herr" he said TO me - he
threw up b,th hands. ''Forty minutes
ago that woman weighed close on 10
eight hundred pounds and was the Jim
Dandiest lat woman in the world.
She's lost over half her weight and
has aged ten yeaxs! II she haiq.t had
four hundred pounds blowed right OF
her then TN NO exhibitor Of living
wondersl",
the living tkeleton dova In . gravel pit
behind tho cotton factory. He had cs-
capped any serious injury. and was -
cheerful aS could be expected Of . hand
ful Of bones under the circumstances.
While he vas being brought in under .
mau's ara he declared that he was
hungry fQr the first time in twenty
years. and:when the Snowman heard Of
It his hands went mp again and he cried
out: -,
''It's just my consarned luck. Hen
Be holleriA' for pork and beans in less'n
an hour. sad afore the week Il out he'll
gain twenty pounds. and won't be . liv-
ing skeleton no more! Gentlemen, I
wept in over forty. years, but
I've got ID weep now!"as' a-rs" a
The Cirt tassian girl had been run down
the road jnd lifted over . fence into an
orchard II had the distinguished honor
Of escorti$9 her back. She had lost her
wig and other articles neces-
sary to become . Circassian beauty. and
she was mad from head to foot She
had never been handled that way, and
Il wasn't sn the contract
'Great makes. but look It her! Jest
look q her!" walled the Snowman - I
led her = Thirty minutes ago she
was the hossest Circassian girl ever ex-
h,bited ID this country under canvas
She was right from Circaasia, where
they sell 'em for two thousand dollars
apiece. bpt what Is she now? Take her
away before my heart II broken!'
The boJs found the boa-eonstrictor.
He was q quarter Of . mile away in =
negro mans garden. He was dead. He
bad beeS dead great many years,
though b was kept eoied up ip . glass
Ease, and there was . sign reading: DO
not agitase the implacable reptile who
can crush IN or In two minuteA" They
came dragging the stuffed skin behind
them, AID - the showmsn saw the
many rips and rents and noticed That the
head wss missing. his grief ovsrcane
him and ne had to sit down on . wagon
wheel. While some Of ~ were trying
70 console him BY figuring how he could
cut the boa constructor up and make
three or four anacondas Of the pieces. .
colored man brought in the mermaid
''the onlt gepuine specimen ever shown
On the american continent" She had
been foInd in . cotton field She was
stone deAd She seemed to have been
smiling 1t some joke the living slesle-
ION had got OF on the fat woman just
- the cyclone came into town. for
there was . grin Of pleasure On the
rrevice supposed 70 represent her
mouth. She had died happy. bat when
the negro laid her down before the
Ihowmen IN four .ohanks- and three
pisces $nd one splinter. the poor. man
turned his face away and was
,andouei Nothing else could b found.
We hur.ted all that afternoon for The
and the cunder.ngo. but
they hsl probably escaped to the woods
70 howl for gore - the darkness fell
md bs{ome living terrors until huqted
down Z determined men. Ioffered to
= band and search the country
Tor thosossiflcd man. whose bones had
been tafuing to chalk for the last twen-
Ey-eigh$ years. and the sheriff said he'd
raise a:posae to 70 out and look for the
wax figure Of Gen. jackson licking the
Britist:at New Orleans. but the show
man ssid Il was no use. He had been
crushe.i to earth. and though he had
four hsndred pounds Of fat woman and
) pretty fair living skeleton 10 start life
asew. be co1ld not do the ph0nix oct
Tor 0hackA-N. Quad. in n. Y. World.
r1t' A@s'T'oxs oF GENUS.
wv - ~. n,ev T1ts.ek nr.ss Asp,rs
10 Breathe ThreagA Silvss.
Whist h the meaning Of this deep
seated craving. which shows itself es-
pedaley in men Of geniuA. 70 embark in
, carefr - different - posdble from
that SSr which they are really fitted?
has told - that there b such
, craving. but he su9gests that when
Ra2ajlle wrote book Of sonnetA. and
Dante endeavored % paint n angel.
his dssire to pess out Of the region in
which they knew their strength and
bad tested It. into one in which they
hsd probably very little strength to test
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