New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-11-23
CITY ITEMS
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in the weaher OF this month"; month THAT stands
the tbresboc Of Winter waveIng between the lowell.
res Of Autumn and the stormy blasts of season
dresceo b, the poor. Watering the present month
has be. indeed. One day Summer sum- folio we'd by
hareest moon in a canopy # ethereal blue, dotted
with eyes Of starry bnghtness-so bright that all Ma
ture laughed with JOY. Presto, chang. L. the morn.
ing, wien we look for the beautiful pictare of a
bright sue r-irg Of bis eastern amber, gliding,
a. Re anceth earth sir and Ky with golientnei
rays VT find met. al a driving storm OF chilling rain.
The next day perhaps, al is brightness again, and
again We lcok out hopefully on the following
morning ard meet storm OF snow-fiakes.
So the charge goes on, the Thermometer
Ring and falling Ike uncertain tide. No
o,e can tel what a day may bring forth.
Look back. What Thanksgiving Day Was Thurs.
davl Even the poor souls that wore deluied from
their homes TO corgre. ate IN Union square by the lying
prom Use Of rogue, who may yet expate this and other
crmes agaipst his race in prison, or upon the gaows,
tsi ore oyou, satisfaction. They backed in the
light snd breathed for a while pure November west
wird Then cane Friday, day to be remembered
for s bright sunlight ard strong northwest wind cool
aid clear enough to sweep away all disease from a
yellow-fever hospital. And Saturday was another of
the same soIt-a Gay to tempt the sedentsy man TO
10, wsk in the bracng ar-s day that did tempt a
lost q wCme forth from their furnace heated )ms
out into the open air. In Broad way, in Grand
street. in the Bowery down Caiharne street along
Canal through all the shopned pats Of Third, Sixth
az Eighth avenues-whst armies o. women one met
all day Saturday, and late into the evening, ont for
some in agnary real want, or else because tho clear
air of November was delightful There was but oae
drawback. TIE cir Vas pure and bracng; the sun
wac arm ant cheerful; the walking was clesn-the
whole city fee from mud. But what clouds OF
dust, aid bow the strong west wind did gather It up
from the great mill where il ground beneath the iron
shod soes of horses feet and underneath the tires Of
rolling wheels, rolling smooth granite blocks,
g1indlpg grinding, grinding al things to powder.
What streetsweeper is this dry west wind-veering,
too was all around that side of the compass Some
times it came up Of tho cross streets till it met
apoher current then turned up down. that aren't
veered it from its Not strong but everywhere
the wind blew aid raised little clouds of dust, and
nsnuaed its finest PARTICLES not only Into our eyes,
ears, mouth and uoee but into every fold Of Dress
Though all the door and window cracks, into houses
and stores doing more damage in one day than it
would cost to sweep the city every day for month
Dust dust, dust everywhere, ard in eryhDg. Pes
to- change again. Saturday closed and was forgotten
for who can remember yesterday Not he who
looked upon its sunlight and heard ts wind blow and
then slept-s secp that knows no waking. Saturday
went and Sunday came, and with it dark clouds, white
epow, and black mud. The dust Of yesterday mixing
with the snow of to-day, and melting, mlnging,
combining, and then-bah! where are the dry,
clean, swept pavements of yesterday Walks that
would have tempted ho-t Of Pleasant Sunday
Christians, to go out upon them and fill the
Il. ,t,,x Nm tl.y fnnL rpf nd
cold. and dirty. and tempting to stay.at-home
people to stsy till a pleasant Sunday before
they risk their delicate health out in such No
yember weather a. this. True, the snow fell only
few minues and in large, feahery flakes, melting as
they fed and disappearing, ast like the little snow
fakes Of human lii. that fall upon the earth resting
for n oment and making little white spots upon
dark background OF lfes picture, and thers fading,
disappearing aud melting away forever. What things
of beauty these snow flakes are Gather oue, as ii
falls in cold day, upon sheet OF black paper, and
bring il uuder the magnifying power of microscope,
and YOU shsll see sight 10 gladden. the eye IT that eye
ia ore tha. gaddeus override curious things that nature
forms The snowflake is curous-such az those
which fell oa Sunday the most So of Gil, for they
are made up Of a mass OF little crystals COM
bned in one. al with as much regularity
of order as though done by some skillfu hand for
definite purposesuch, for instance az the wheels q
An American machine made watch, where every part
is exactly like its contemplating part through thou
sand different time-keepers 81 OF this little snow
fake Every pat and every whole, or combined
flake, corresponds with every other one as though all
were formed in a great nsnufactory by ,killiul men
ard mschnes like those that form the watches. Who
shall g mp into the clouds aud visit this great manu-
factory of sIowfake.-.hese little things OF wonderful
workmansbip-and tell Us how they are maize Who
can lock al them a. they faas 80 ne We wot vi did
On Sunday instead Of church-song-and say With pct
ulant tone and unamiable manner, Do look at the
taety snow VITO saw such November
weather" We have; and 70 hes the person
who made the srgry exprc>~on-person, al,
thousands Of them but they never saw snow
fake. Ma,scs of them they may have seen
but one never; because with human Intellect
above the groveing animals who ever saw q snow
fake--ssw 80 10 zee and think Of IL wonderful
fountain-can see the snOw falling without ieei-
Ing that he is surrounded with things OF wondeiial
beauty, that once seen, must always be admired Ana
80 Of rainy or fair dsys-of day or nlsht-sereoe or
stormy, or wind calm, Of cold or hot, Winter OF
Summer, Spring or Autumn, May or Noveinoe'-a1'
have their appropriate Beauties 10 be admired ioVed
honored. Hence, though Sunday WA, in or every
day language, dark, gloomy, rainy muddy cA'i! =
wss only such November weather a. Nsture provides
to prepare u. gradually for that which Mdwiner hss
in store. Why repne at any, since al i good Coca
though not always brisb. ard balmy ss the m'st OF
Monday. Bright by contrast with the rainy day 'ha'
proceed il, which ended in snowy evening" wheniDs
the roofs and ! aided spots, until the wa'n sun 81
Monday j, hurying down in little muddy n is l,o
the city sewers and to tie decks and rivers and o 20
sea. An hour Of Mondays sun aud balmy air and all
remembrance Of Winter was obi,erssed, snd the a'e
cold snap" amo-, forgotten. Who esn-who "Ou's-
. .oco, enrlY W ntfr-OT