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Show Hoitk or Tin: im. Tim residents of tbe north and east benches overlooking this city aro sometimes treated to an icollau jer formanie which they would milch rather nils. The wind comes rumbling down tho mountain side like a great monster howling for irey and strlkca tho houses with a force that roakra them quiver In every Jslnt. This Is not usually continuous, but It comes In gusts which become moru and more frequeut until they beat a regular tattoo on tbo etdosof tho more oxiasod houses, and whet, they "put lu tin Ir but licks," sleeping Isout of tho question Kvcry-thing Kvcry-thing tutccrllblo to high aerostatic I resture Is either removed or severely shaken, aud the cxrleuco Is far from pleasant. Tho origin of these blasts is some thing we are not entirely advised of. It la claimed In eojie quarters that they are brewed In tha taverns and depressions of the neighboring mountains, moun-tains, acquiring the necessary rotary motion by emerging from a ravine and being taught up In a hollow, from wlitnco they descend In cyclonlo form fo It o lower level. This Is, bowevtr, too abstruse a proposition to be till-cussed till-cussed here. Hut It Is noticeable that In nearly every case where one ot these Irony Incursions has been unusually violent wo hear shortly after-- after-- warde of there having been n destructive destruct-ive windstorm somewhere eaat to the llocky Mountains and generally near the Missouri rlvtr. Can these local demonatratlons be all of such storms that were able to climb over the adlacent heights? If eo, wo uru more fortunate In the byslcal character! tics of our mountain home thau inauy of us are awaro of; for, while tho storms wo have at times are qultu severe and even alarming to the netvous, they amount to no moro than a Juno xephyr In comparison with full-grown, able-bodied oyclone. |
