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Show IT RAINSD FROCS. Tha Wild aad Woolly Idaho Idar Rurprlaaa Ilia rrlouda. M ulad I nterprl.-.e. An uupruiijiluntiul phenomenon was wiiesBfui Inst Similay by n party of nix you ii tf iiutu whila out plt'a"ina ruling in the vicinity of the Ikish of the Kit Horn luounlaiiis. at the IiuhJ of Mitlail vallpy. A dense black cloud was arem Approaching from tlio tioiilhwest, about which faint aireaks of lightning played Rccuinpritiiuil by low nunbiingn of thunder, giving ovpiy evidence tliitt a dtisliing ohowor would l upon thciu wiih tint suddenness peculiar to local ruins of that acction, unle.s some sinnll huiiH; on a sheep ranch, ..011,0 two liiiies ditiUiit, could be reached in a very short tinis. A dath was made as if by (oinnion consent by four of the parly for the shelter of the ranch, but the cloud met them within ft miie of the house, and to their consternation, conster-nation, instead of the rain they expected to meet, living frog came down on all Hides by tens of thousands. In speech-less speech-less alarm they laid whip to their frightened ponies aud were soon through the shower of cold, wreaking animation. Two of the party who had ridden in advance of the rest were some distance above the snow line on the mountains, linagiue their aiuiteiiietil wheu this foretd trees and froen snow resounded with the palter ot fin en fiogs that blinded the air in their descent. Thousands came rolling over the frozen crust and thu rough Lara and dead boughs fell from the tree, so great was the momentum of the shower, and but fur the refuge ollered by th a leaning trunk of a great pine, the consequences to the two men would have been serious. The shower did not last more than live minutes, and an investigation si. awed that tl.o phenomenon did not extend more than half a miie above snow line, being altogulher about three miles in length and li'om a quarter to half a mile wide. None of tne frogs seemed to suffer the leaat inconvenience from their aerial 1 soar as those in the valley soon hopped away while I he hibernated ones that wuru carried beyond the enow line soon resuscitated. 1'eoplo are coming for niilis around to bei-ure specimens of thu shower. It is safe tu say that there , is nothing so remarkable 011 record. j |