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Show Windy. Yesterday, the wid whs n.nt disagreeable, blowing all day a to.. land fitful breeze, liftii: and wafiirg dust and sand to everybody's eye, ears and clothins. Tue .coiling 01 articles iu the interior of d walling put careful bcusewives out of sorts and on the return of their hubbies a cloud ef dust overspread their countenances and they were vexed. But the men were gritty and endured. On the streets the tempers of many were tried by the blowing off of their hats. One patient individual, in particular, parti-cular, after trying half an hcur or sd to mount a restive broncho, and succeeded suc-ceeded at the end of the time indicated indi-cated in straddling the animal, bad his tile laken by a gust of wind and carried about fifty yards down street. Then he smole, but such a sickly amilel And he remarked sometbiug corcerning bis luck, and Amsterdam, or Bome place the name of which ended with the last syllable ot the city aforesaid, and dismounted. It wa3 6ome time alter ere be resumed his journey. Then there were lots of men who were Bnatched bareheaded by the heedless wind, who undertook to recover their Panamas and beavere at a leisurely gait, but as they sauntered, fresher and stronger gusts carried still further their head gear, compelling the indiflerent-looking but plagued chasers to accelerate their speed in order to eaten them. They didn't care for the audible smiles ol ptsaera-by, not they, but they swoie a trifle to themselves, all the same. |