Show extraordinary ion I 1 and other curiosities the steamer st ange capt labar labarge ge says the st louis arrived here yesterday from yellow stone after a voyage of fifty two days rapt L informs us that for f q ten years past he has in in every I 1 successive anguil trip observed a remarkable looking solitary cedar tree standing upon a bleak and elevated point about fiat fifty miles mileo low the mouth of lellow fellow stone while coi A W down this last trap he saw that his old ac asala had fallen to the earth curiosity lz leq him to the spot which was about half a mile from the river and perhaps feet above its level when he found to his surprise that the tree was in the most perfect state of judging from the shortness of tte the interval since he had se seen en it standing it must have been in that condition while standing erect as it had grown the trunk was about thirty six inches in diameter A fragment of it is is now lying upon our table and is decidedly the most perfect specimen of ligneous we have ever seen dr evens TJ S geologist who came as a passenger on th tha st ange found near dear the same spot the shoulder blade of a mastodon measuring nearly 3 31 feet across also some enormous foot bones of the same animal fossil shells the head of a snake and other curiosities were found by dr E in the same locality among the notabilities abilities not of the trip was the catching of a beautiful specimen of the linnet a bird very rarely seen by some of the boat hands its plumage is beautiful and the melody of its song is is most charming mr berthold who also came on the boat brought with him the stuffed skin of one of the mammoth mountain sheep of yellow stone region it stands about as large as an ordinary cow and is indeed a w remarkable cario curiosity rio sity capt labarge brought down some beautiful specimens of the rocks found on cannon BU ball river river whose name is derived from them they are perfectly er act spherical and without a veri very close inspection would pass for real cannon balls anaw anywhere ere they are of a sizes izes i cangin ranging 9 from that of a common toy marble to the bulk of a half bushel measure they are seen in measureless abundance projecting from the face of the steep banks between which the river runs scientific amer |