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Show ILL WIND AND A GOOD ONE Young Man Offered "Proof" That Strong Gale Could Build as Well as Destroy. "Gentlemen," said the Innocent-looking young man, "many people would be disposed to doubt some of the stories sto-ries that you have been telling about the freaks of the wind, but I don't. The man who told how the wind took off the roof of his and his neighbor's houses, exchanged them and nuiled them down, has my unlimited confidence. My father hud an experience expe-rience which will not permit me to be skeptical." "Did he have a house blown down?" "No ; he hadn't any house to be blowu down. He hud been living in a hotel waiting for his new residence in the country to be completed. All the material was lying out In the fields and the plans were in a toolshed near by. When he went to look at the place one morning he found that the wiud hud broken open the tool-house, tool-house, secured the plans, built the whole house up, cleaned the windows and started a fire In the kitchen range." Each man picked up his hat and went home. Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tel-' egruph. |