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Show THE TERRITORIES. Montana had eight inches of snow before the late storm. . Walla Walla, W.T., has a $20,000 school fund this year. Whiskey licences raised $6,000 of it. The Sioux Indians, about tho Yellowstone Yel-lowstone Park, say " spectacled white man heap fraud; ho no make play ground here never." The vicinity of Like Chelan, W.T., has earthquake shocks almost dailv. In some places, the earth has sunk, and lakes have formed; and along the Columbia river huge rocks have tum-hlixl tum-hlixl down and caused new channels to cut. Large fissures flow stilt water and there is a cencral and universal i odor of sulphur in the atmosphere. A company of English capitalists have leased the lake on the summit of the divide, in Southern Colorado, and , intend to deepen and widen it and stock it with fish. They also propose to put up ice-housca capable of storing stor-ing aboulr 22,000 tons of ice. Prof. Hayden's party, while on Pike's Peak, erected a stone pile which can be distinctly seen from Colorado Springs with the aid of a good glass. This stone pile wao used by them as one point of traingulation to ascertain the exact altitude of the peak. It is estimated thatth re is a population pop-ulation of 2,000 people in Colorado Springs at the present time, and ' 'still they come.'' The hotels are all : doing well, and private boarding! houses are in great demand. Invalids are daily arriving, and complain bitterly bit-terly that they can'tgctaccomadation in private families. A vessel newly launched near Greenwich, in England, built for the government of Chili, has been duly named by one of the priests attached to tbe St. Mary's Church, Greenwich. He went round the upper and main decks sprinkling holy water in the name of tbe Trinity, while the choristers chor-isters and acolytes marched befre him. After thia there was luncheon. A like ceremony it is supposed baa not been perfobmed in England since : the Reformation, or at least since the Revolution of 16SS. The Ritualists of the English church will now have an opportunity to introduce something some-thing novel; why cannot some of them ask permission to rename the whole Royal Navy. |