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Show CHINESE SCATTERS WHEN AVALANCHE OF ICE HITS NEAR This is the tale of I heilhen Chinese, who thought he was Injured In-jured and heat It. The celestial was a vegetable man, aa art rua'nj of hie race, and Waa proceeding sedately along Tweiity-i if th street behind a I nml h -i a t en bedraggled nae. a hectvlly-laden ice wagon crossed their path tu:ir Twenty-fifth Twenty-fifth street and Lincoln avenue, and. in bumping through tho gutter gut-ter to enter, an .ille w.iy. shook loose Rs entire cargo of frozen slush With the noltie of an honesUTo- goodnex-; avalanche, the frozen i m. ism i rasehd to the pavement dl- rectly in front of the horse, who despite continual jerklngs of the reins, was slumbering peacefully, Ol6 Dobbin, at the crash, made by the first falling Ice cake, reverted revert-ed to day of colthood and for a moment stepped "high-wide-and ij handsome." ing Lee, or One Liiiik emitted I a shriek, leaped from his seat in the w.igon. and disappeared around a corner at a ten-tlat I gait. Half an hour later Detectlvo W A -JoncK located the vegetable peddler and finally convinced him lhat there had been no earthquake I and thnt he could safely resume his hawking of siuash and tur- l nips. 1 |