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THE JUDGE. } 4 ASK FOR WIGGINS. according to his almanac. To-day the weather is all | days. Tell W and jump out | — that could be desired, and two boys were seen ina | [rot 1 for us. i 1 boat of Gove Island fishing for floand | Sie Oca Tees Alle , i Nx, Wivatxs took a notion, Wrecks expected to be heanl from every: mit ed’deureesdny tor hee, ilk From some aérial commotion, That the world upon the Niuth of March Would by blown to smithereens. And to show a wizard Prodicted that a blizzard 1 blow a blast to take the starch Maine. Jor out of, even evergreens, Auntie cau Vorttaso, Mase, March U. Tell Hazen to bide his di ad bead and onder ion into his own conduct, for W His storm was ag copivus showers; and on the 1th, terrapin aves from the wind-lashed waters of the | The Gulf of Mex! ing into our harbor, wash-bow! | ricanistic moveme ting wo 2 from first to he nt, atid has been a dle On the 9th it rained nthe 10th we had mock-turthe soupy ins wi ni to madness by the hur: rbient atmiesy was lasi oft cireun ae gS SES —=—. i high, carrying terror to the owners of shipping. and | but we were fooled out of our tidal wave snay on . aed also alarming wharf rats, who were never known to | count of Eade’ jetty business at the mouth of the pom cann eae weaken before. The wind whooped up to fifteen miles | Mississippi. But we feel that we bave not heen wholly badeaaprtamentipall -narth ir on the ninth, and on the tenth it increased to | slighted by the great weather forecast trom larsperthetateen dlegin’® } an hour on the ninth, and on the tenth it Increasesl to | slighted srvat weat twenty, and no person ¥ Not » blast was blown this way; ured into the streets with- fot a sign of Mow or bluster out ch ‘ould th n muster was a season of terror, al Save a breath that asked for Wiggins spoki es Davee ter with W Con, March We 1s in this part of the ste what he pre reofed ulster-flaps and hats spiked on, It 1 the name of Wiggins was p with bated breath. The ti wave hasn't a , bat the people of Maine are fully with what they have had, and feel that they dicted. Th believe Hazen, ning of the 12th; ir wisely refused would not put to sea until the many of our citizens, fea From the f tied e had hyr's p rived y i Iu teuth it has grown colder, tele moneys worth. -1Great lp Weslo tidal wave, re valuables—includin Bat a blizzard bs a bolder Guoverster, Mass, March LL. niselves—to the mountains, The wave, however Form of blowing of his trumpet, Wigsins’ storm ‘came on time, and bundreds of all that we expected it to be, rushing into the reas KNOWS about. fishermen and thelr families are to-day bleasing him hundred feet high, and, fortus | But Wiggins swore it would be, Mistaken —he never could be, And although he'll have to lump It, Where's the use to fret and pout. for saving thelr Mves. Cape Cod was shaken to its a tloatin; foundations and Plymouth Rock was submerged by | the rain had washed down from the shore. Yet we the Udat wave. It rafued, snowed, hailed and blew | rate Wisin on for successive hours from the moment the snow be | for our next President. ¢ Iv. gan to the finish, whil ter and thermom- | By the way, who is W ¢ bobbing up and down continuall were overflowed and u Dig-sty whieh, oe n. and, if he wants to ran il sure for him. the baron anyway Whon again he takes a notion, ter we We had bettor use some loti aug To cure him of each ache ant pate, Wiggins ! | And of that frightful rheumattz Purtapenrnia, Ps, Marek 1. For @ can't always guide So what woather may betide us, He will lear and rain Sax Feayetseo, Cat. Marek 1. urge, we didn’t expect much from the terrible out here on the I vast, for Wh While bhlding the rest of th cover, that we were in the xafest place on earth, But not wishing to disappoint benetit of the Al wave, and we feel happy vn it that Wiggins is al of them tong before on helieve these almond-eyedd Seorw one for | gr ¢ im to tremble tie Ds re ally Wiggins arrived e and nade vely for us, The suds by the terrible y. and ral ferry boats did trips after twelve ‘clock at nizht on the ninth, tenth, and eleventh in stants, The na ty and everybody's han tL exceeding! river has been lashed in which swept us altogether, he just let as have th swash of that th ealing Chin not new; t era. Bat ‘© prophesy a blirzard that will Miz | sev THOMAS R. PRICE mal e citizens insist ay the grea at they had seve refuse t were in their own Many old WIGGINS. nly else's poe or {to heep warn Heathen, for, not aatiatied with claiming everytl Mizzard-breasters from the far West, the authors of | which woes to make usa famous people, they now wortaLity comes to but few men in this world, | those thrilling stories which we oceasionally read in | claim to have had a Wiggins. The thing Is absnnd. Yat occasionally the Laurel is won oF theust on some | Western papers respecting the doings of those drvaded | horn of envy -and the Golden | Pratt, Helm. Francis Tr: ee Dalzell, Lystia Pinkham, and now the wreath falls on W Artis long,” if it wasn't we boul y had #8 brow—Amertea alev storing, say Uney never saw anything like it in all their Caneurty, Iypta, March 12th, °*S, | arkable prophecy of that man Wh Hiled with dire and terrible truth. yed itself in the Hay of Bengal on the mort. experience of story-telling. There was no the air. Neither rain, snow, or hail has fallen dicted, but the wie the Quaker City as it . during the Poei L, however, was before Philadelphia was days us Wig,cins + with a pleture of Wigsins. at we feel tha him even more than nll by publ trait of him, beautiful moaned and howled throu: we can hon ing of the ninth instant, and at once began to aw ever did before; unless, por up our enormous 1" 128 Dp ay, Aweeping everything be wl Ihe is, We projise to show throagh our spe ouzh this statement may be doubted ty | 88 tof wood are whirled and piteherd on the bosom cial correspondents at Various points, just how great a who are not in love with Phil. One of the most | %€8 dashing mill stream. Ships were te easter this reat man Wiggins Is Teinarkabte phenomena observed during the preva. | Uke Corks, high up upon the strand, and ruin. dlevasta- | position ehop at Washin They are in the | and flashed forth with vce stood the lizard now crawls and the croc pernatural lights. It has been respecta, True, we hi pay of the ( hasks in the un, rnment, and J all because the people would course, feel very jeal- | 4 Wi sing carnival ve bail fectly natural, of course, and we expected it; but w has heen cheated out of the most sensae | THCY £Ot drowned, 1 was that tidal that th fought it from the start, and now come boldly out as | tional. yurt of the pr e Whegine pres | em ap for being pat down, Most sorrostally we the champion of Wigssing, salute America, the home of the We felt certain from the first that Wiggins was right, est prophet whe | nwever, we are now looking for a es cyclone as has ever lived since Buddab,—or was It only an , pensatic n, the chief of the ; wecause he sail 30, and he publishes an almanac: and | ginal service, wa Saturday. He attempted | fF his almanac ¢ | no one but a trembling rival lke Hazen would attempt | to brave the desp) by goin from the Con. | Thee dispatches need no comment. Wiggins has nek seed am” at him, as this so-called weather suceeeded in looking into t af storms, and say- which one will grow and which one will not, and dit w | tinental Hotel across to the Girard House, and was in; if people would not believe what he his fault, Although Calcutta has bee | existence, Wiggins is still left to the worl | en ap bodily by the prevailing atmosphere and car- hicken valley, where some of bis in a net. Mis frst we t might have been expected from a ¢ weather sharp: © Wigsins be bowed !” Pattison was blown completely out of the hands of friends, and hasn't lasned a manifesto, message, or vo- Bostox, March 11, | tort a hill since. Whoop up the im jay for Wigyins. is foreannonnced storm was | Wigxins! a suce every particular, ‘The wind began to blow cus on the 9th, and continued to blow for three d snot | pw what a great man this man Wig: | cet tothe Wis superior he Is to the head of | friends caught h weoriered our correspondents t0 | si. , fall particulars of what might | ies on the 9th, 10th and 11th in- | and herewith we present t and bow infinite swept ont of our Signal Serr send us, without del occur in their loca stant Great, great is W : —wutentor. ortality for Bus sox, $C... March 1. 1883. ~ The | Where is Wiggins? We have patiently awaited that | Tact a man about backing down, and see how ain fell in torrents, also the snow; also jnst about the | had spell of bia, but it len't on time, Fither our | quickly he will get his back up, quantity of hail that the great predictor predicted. | almanacs are wronz, or Wiggins ta. Where is that —- The tidal wave would undoubtedly have rinsed Boston | tidal wave that was going to swash along the Atlantic | _ Fessy, isn’t it, that you always see the nig! from Haymarket Square to Dorchester, had it not hit | coast? Whereis that blow? ‘The people of this section | fore any stars begin to shoot. Apple Island as it came surging up the bay. This, | are indignant, and feel that they have heen defrauded — r, was not Wis att and his family were diamonds of the second | ht-fall bee | ins’ fault. Te did not take | People came from miles awas to see the show, and now | Ir you honestly desire to end an angry discussion, into consideration at all; but in all other | they are going home mad as wild cats. The finest | there's no better way to do it than by shutting your respects his meteors programme was carriel ont | weather of the year has heen ours for the past three | own mouth, comicbooks.com