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Show 3! lirnesol a's Wonderful Climate. 'Curious winter phenomoiin wo have here," remarked the tit. Paulito to the visitor from St. Louis. "You notice that icicle up there on the Cornice of that eight story building'. Should say it was ten feet long. Well, this very morning one just like that dropped as Sam Bones was passing, and the point struck him eijuare on the lop of the head. It went through him like a shot anil pinned him to tho sidewalk, bolt upright and stiff ;is a itatue.'' "Kill him':" "Hardly. As soon as tho icicle melted he walked off all right enough. See':" I "An extraordinary escape, truly per- haps an isolated rase. But I should I think bo would be liable to take cold from the draught through the hole in his body," "Not at all! Yoti see, the winter climate cli-mate here is so dry that" ! "Bo,sh!" Nat nro"s iiealm. |