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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4446, 5 April 1883, Page 2

A German citizen has got ahead of Wig ■ gins in the storm business. "LookhereY* said he, the other day. I dell you rat' is. You petter don't dake no stock in dem weader bredictions. Dose beople don't know noding. They can't dell no petter as I can." "Bat, my dear sir,"'said a person present, " they foretold the * storm, we hare just encountered." " Veil, dat ish zo," replied the German contemplatirely ; " but I dell you rat' it is—dat shtorm rould have come yust de same if. it had not been bredicted." - The speed of the wind in a hurricane is usually set down at from 80 to 100 miles an hour. The Orerland China Mail is responsible for the statement that the typhoon which recently visited the Philippine Islands, had a speed of 141.4 English miles per hour: This waß the record obtained at Manilla, butit is added that the anemometers broke down before the storm was. at its height, so that the maximum speed of the wind may be imagined as baring been in excess of the figure quoted. * . A dbg, who had lost the whole of Kher interesting family, was seen trying to poke a piece of crape through the keyhoto of a New York sausage shop.