The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-06-05
SOME KANSAS LIES.
Breezy Tales of Cyclones and
TOrnadUs.

From the Kansas city Journal
Here 70 an example Of what q Kansas
tarnado can do, or what q kan-as liar
can DO when forced toit. A farmer had
a large crib filled with ear corn and there
Was a knot hole in the south ,ud Ut the /
crib. IL was NJ uck 10y tarnado, and 1t |
Is claimed thai the suction was .u great /
that cob after cob was drawn through /
the knot hole and the farmer was lett |
with a crib of shelled corn.
Several stories which the reader can
or can not believe, just a. hc secs Oh,
were started after the Seneca taIuado,
two years ago, had violated the STATE
law IN reference to the malicious destluc'
ton Of property aud departed i1r part
unknown. Probably the besl one was
this A man was riding along ON horse
back with 4 jug Of Whiskey tied with Dc
strap b. the saddIe-hofn. After the
blow had ceased, the jug handle was
found inside the jug anu the strap WAS
sticking outside the nozzle, the jug hay-
ing been blown inside out without spill
ing a drop Of liquor.
During the same blow a goat hap
pened 10 get into the road aud bad his
hair blown of, leaving his hide ~ clean
a. skinned banana The animal look
ell -o much like a Mexican dog with
horns that he was placed on eXultIun.
Another caper which this tarnado cut
va, 81 blow the ahiskers OIL a travelling
man and planted them on the side oi a
Waman'- face, where they continue 20
grow.
Here 10 another pretty fair one A
/ tanner Wa pIuNiug around au Obluug
patch of ground one day and at night
| the tratt Of uupl0Wed land still contain.
ed about five acres. When bee quit for
the day be left the pillow sticking in he
iuuow, as farmers often do. The tar.
nadO came along aud caught The poU,
taking II around and around the land
until 20 was all ploWed.
A kausan abroad recently found a
crowd that did not seem o. appreciate
bis conversation so be pulled uut biz
stock Of tarnado stories, hoping 10 at'
tract attention.
81 saw cyclone once, said Dee that
picked mp strawstack and moved 10 d
mile and put IL back, straw on straw, a.
lit was"
Two or three Of the auditors yavucJ
and the Kansas man tired again.
Another time said he, n -aw .
tWister suck sixty gallons of mO.usse
out Of a barrel in front ola grocery stor,
and distribute % toeyery family in toNI
who had a bucket out on the back stei
for the milk man.
lie cleaned hi. thrOa, aud hrgaI
again Back IN the 1Os We had ter
, nblc cyclone In Western Kansas. !
blew the cracks oul OF the fences, puIle,
a cis'ern out Of the ground, moved
township line and changed the day @
she wees
TIL last iuHsadc induced on OF th
listeners 90 peak up. lie said ~ u
I, not know much about cyclones, but one
when ! was 90 sea ! saw a WATERPROOF
. pick up tons and tons of water aud carr
!, ia mile and
Hold ON, said the kanau. "lfyo
are going 30 degrade this cOnyprsatiu
10 the level of a common lying contest
will retire Aud he got up aud wake
away p0mp1usly.
n Another man with uublushiur flC
20 told Ibis story aud expected people
d., believe %.
81 was ont In 10 kausas last sunni c
and the iirsf cyclone, of course, ] Wer
.s down iuto the cellar like other folk
a The house Was soon blown away Il
n. next thing ] knew the cellar went tu
70 ling over and over ike o. silk ha
Z ! Was soon spilled out. With inhuiI
!, labor / craWled back IN the teeth of o.
- wind, intending TO take refuge iu o.
" hole the cellar came out 10 my col
siernation ] found that that had bee
n blown away also
~ A prominent kansan Is credited vii
" telling this.
~ "Trll YOU what's a fact, have know
10 TO blow iwel q DAYS aud nights GA
stretch and hold a sheep up against q
side II the barn until he starved
le DEATH