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Show Xoru on (ho Street. On HaturJay evening a welt known citizen was walking rapdly south-, ward along West Temple street. Just as he was crossing an open space bo-Iweon bo-Iweon the buildings opposite the Continental Con-tinental hotel, a gutt of w Hid lifted his Derby and plutnod It crown downward down-ward In the sluih of the roadway. Then the brieie tilled It over, and rolled It lo Ihe middle of thu street, where-11 stuck, almost obneured by thu mud. Tho citizen did not run after It, but gracefully walled till uu urchin waded out and rescued the headgear. Tlieu Ha owner wlieJ oh ai much of Ihe real tttato as lie ooulJ with a handkerclilef,sn I resumed hlijoiirney. Hulwhcn leoclo whom he meilookcd at hlui with ii 'where eilJ you get that hat?" stare, thu "I'm lerfeclly aolier" oxpreeslou that beclouded thu aforesaid afore-said cltlzeu'a counteuancu was a study fornphjalognomlst. A little firthor on a bright llltlo girl, oI?ht or ten years of Hge,was hurrying on, picking out tbe cleuu ilaces where there were any on the sidewalk for her dainty feet, A pretty and rather expensive ex-pensive hat wai caught from thocblld's head by the frisky almost heru and swett Into a iko1 of wntcr, rim downward. down-ward. The'next gust turned it over and treated the feathers to u mud bath. When thu ruined millinery waa recovered re-covered aud returned thore were none so rude as tu even smile at Ihe weeping child'.) misfortune. The West Hide lttpld Trauilt com-fiany's com-fiany's cara were runnlngon time on Flrat Wesl strict, south, this morulug. A boy driver of a I'aclflo Hxpresa company wajon droppoj a hulf.dollar lu the euow this morulng,as he lumped out of the vehicle In front of a Hecoud Houth Htreet buslocsa liouie. In a short llmo n swarm of newsboys were scraping scrap-ing ti u enow from the frozen grounl with Iheir hands In a search tor thu shining ciln. At laat the lad who dropped II was fortunate enough lo pick It up, aud n few of tho othera looked dtsuppclnteJ. A business man wai hastening along the Ice-vuncered sidewalk opiiotltn thu poslolllce this morning, when his feet shot forward from the treacherous glassy surface, and hu oat down, but not to teat. Had he been a disciple uf Dclsirtc, when Ills heels began to movo upward he might havo relaxed and come down with grace. Hut ho diild'L Gravitation was n proved force In a number of other Instances of contact with the lumpy, ridged and corrugated narrow-guage glaclera which cut across the sldewulke at rllous Intervals. There wure no broken bonea, howevor, among tho victims. |
