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Show i cstenby's Blow, Boreas thieiv hit, - 1; yutlcrday, and injured bus;ns ly making everything, every-thing, every! oly ai d everywhere disagreeable. dis-agreeable. Oar dtvil, considering on the situation, advised us not to quar rel with anyone yesterday, and when abbed why, replied: "Because everybody's every-body's gritty to-day." Wo told him we thought that wasn't "so dusty." One of the tax collectors vraa con- I fronted by an impecunious individual who had been endeavoring to accumulate ac-cumulate enough to "pay up," but couldn't. "If you'd eaid you'd tried to raise the wind, I should have thought you were very successful," the offiqial added. The clouds of pulverized pul-verized earth which were blown in all directions filled all crevices, spaces and spots within the limits of the city. The usual amusement was afforded loafers by the blowing o0 of bats and the consequent chasee. Pedestrians were temporarily blinded and 'equestrians 'eques-trians were in danger ol colliding with others. One nf the "oldeat inhabit- antd" remarked that h&'d be blowed if if he wasn't dis-gust-ed; wondered howl oog the wind would blow the way it did; whistled "Gentle Zephyrs" lor awhile, and then, storming, howling howl-ing and raving, swore the woather clerk must have had the colic. |