The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-20
THE ANANIAs CLUB.
Strange Experiences and suII
Stranger Freaks OF Nature.
From the Washington Star.

From the Washington Star.
The Ananias Club met in regular session
last night a full membership being pres
ent. The president announced that the re-
lators of previous stories had shown too
great a tendency to Standardization upon
the part of the tellers as to deeds OF
bravery and daring by which they had
won credit. The stories of the evening" he
said, must, therefore, be devoted to natu-
raj phenomena John Broadhead a visitor
from the Chicago Board of Trade was
recognized as member of a fraternal So
clety 10 the Ananias Club, and was invited
to entertain the members with a story.
wei, said he, II am not a story teller,
but upon the subject of this evening L may
be able to lmpart some information con-
corning the northwest. The firm of which
am nemDer owns large wheat farm
IN Manitoba 1t Is fine wheat section,
but the climate is to variable to suit me-
My farm is thirty miles north Of Winni-
peg, ana by the time wheat ripens there
is frequently a cold wave that freezes
not only the wheat, but turns all Of the
WHISKY into ice, which makes is impossl-
pie 70 induce men to work in the field,
stimulants being a necessity there. Last
ran l went to the farm, and, having notn-
ing to do but watch the men, ] whiled
away the time with harmoncon upon
which am somewhat of an expert The
men had climbed the wheat stalks and
were picking the grain, while / played
some ell-knoWn tunes. Suddenly a bliz-
zard struck uS-the men fell to the ground
ana, piling them into wagons, l covered
them with ice in order to thaw out the
frozen places, aud got them to the house
! had warmed myself up by blowing the
harmonicon, and kept il up but it made
no sound, the air being frozen too tightly
Tor there TO be any vibration The biz
zard lasted for three weeks, but one morn
ing the sun came out, and L started down
the road l had traversed from the wheat
held to go to town and take train for
chicago. After / had gone about mile
| heard strains of music but could see
no one playing. 1t seemed all around me
and the tunes were those l had tried to
play when caught in the blizzard The
point where we had started from, and then
| realized that the air was thaWng, and
the notes that had frozen into the at
mosphefe were being liberated"
A vote of thanks was rendered the Wis
ltor and a general invitation extended to
the Chicago Board of Trade for its mem
bers to make the club headquarters while
IN washington. Mr.. John Wilcox of
henJucky, VINO was elected member at
the last meeting, being called upon, told
a modest and pathetic incident from the
Blue Grass state. i feel somewhat diff
hdent he said, ''as | am not used to
telling my experiences. L had thought
to describe my sensations upon one oc-
caSIon when l got between two angry
DullS, ana they threw me from one to the
other, each catching me on his horns
until | finally alighted on the back of
one thus saving my life, but adventures
are barred by the president. / know one
case of natural phenomena, however
which may be of interest Kentucky il
occasionally visited by lightning electric
as well as political / have ALWAYS nade
a study of the subject of electricity. and
especially of electric photography which
may make this story more interesting to
me than to others. friend of mine
started to ride from BarboursVille which
Is the county seat of Knox county, to
PlneVille, IN Bell county, a distance of
about forty miles the way he Travelled
When about half way between the two
places a storm came IN. The country is
la cd
no buildings of any kind in which he
could take refuge, so, stopping his horse
under tree, and tying the animal he
concluded to wait until the storm was
over. 1t was a fearful storm and the
trees would not shelter horse and man,
so my friend ran to another large tree
where he could watch the horse. The
WIND blew, the lightning flashed, and
the thunder roared;, 1t seemed as if the
jagged streak of lightning ran down
the tree under which stood the horse
and struck the animal, killing him in
stantly My friend was watching, and
naturally felt greatly terrified. Soon af-
ter the killing of the horse the storm
ceased as seddenly as it had started
and my friend had to walk the remain,
ing distance to Pineville. When he
reached the town everybody stared at
mountain hotel was full of curious peo-
pie, anxious to get a look al him Great
~ annoyed, he went to his room and
looked in the mirror. There upon the
pupil of each eye was a weli-defined
picture of his horse, with a saddle on,
just as it was when the lightning struck
it. That was two years ago, and the
photographs are plain yet, my friend
wearing glasses to hide them, although
his sight is perfectly good"
THE strangest thing I ever knew in
nature" said Albert Senter. was in
Texas. The town of Cisco at the june
ton Of the Denver and Rio Grande and
the Texas Pacific railroads is right in the
cyclone district. Eastland. the county
seat, is twelve miles east of Cisco and
not so large a place. Between the trio
is a creek. in which the water IS not
deep. There lived in Cisco a couple who
could never get along, and the wife fin
ally left her husband and went to live
with her parents on the outskirts Of East
land. They had not seen each other for
nearly three years, when one day the
little city of Cisco was almost entirely
destroyed By a cyclone. The man al the