Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1873 — Snow-Flakes of Wit. [ARTICLE]

Snow-Flakes of Wit.

They have had some snow in Utica, N. Y., as appears by the following “Brevities,” from the Herald of that city: They wear snow-plows sot overshoes over in the Eighth Ward. Nearly all the signs on Genessee street were dug out before night yesterday. ... Nearly all of the corner-loafers have climbed Ao the top of the snow and resumed business. Utica has more snow than Watertown and Ogdensburg together, and it is better snow too. There is more of it to the pound. The man who drove off the snow Into the street railway track, yesterday, was not much hurt but his sleigh was badly broken by the fall A man on Com hill, obliged by the deep snow to go home by way of the chimney got into hot water by getting into the wrong house. If you see a dog’s tail on the snow, don’t pick it up. The probability is that there will W a dog under the drift, and he may object to your familiarity. A merchant on Blandina street, who worked all yesterday forenoon cleaning his sidewalk, was disgusted* when he found that he had only got down to the wooden awning. A lone widow, residing on Court street, complains that they have run a sleigh road right over her house, and that the horses are Kicking her lightning-rod all to pieces.