Show NOT BLOWN OFF BY THE wind feathers as the besu t r in the storm about a year ago the telegraphic dis contained an account of a windstorm in ouri which not only blew down houses and fences and caused great loss of life but actually stripped the feathers from a rooster the correspondent stated that not even the pinfeathers pin feathers were left and hii description of tiow the cock next morning strutted forth flapped his naked wings and crowed with a somewhat disfigured but still inthe in the ring style caused considerable merriment it was reasoned that a wind of such force would have blown the fowl to jericho and the writer was set down as a munchausen scientific research however sustains the story but ascribes the roosters condition to another cause A writer in der stein der says among the most aston ashing effects of whirlwinds whirl winds must be reckoned the well supported facts that on their cessation birds exposed to them have been found stripped of their feathers and people with every shred of clothing torn from them these effects cannot possibly be ascribed to the wind alie force necessary would have sufficed to transport the objects away bodily numerous similar occurrences curren ces were observed in france in the tornadoes which prevailed there three years ago and these were gradually brought under investigation over the whole region affected trees were found rent in a manner which could not possibly have resulted from the wind these were first oaks split down the center for q length of twenty to twenty five feet second poplars and beaches beeches for lengths of six to twelve feet were shivered into sticks of uniform thickness for example a beech tree sixteen inches in diameter was split into more than fivel hundred sticks a centimeter thick two centimeters broad and three and a half centimeters long third firs and other resinous trees had their stems cut clean through leaving almost even surfaces these phenomena and others of kindred nature can be ascribed only to electricity |