Curiosities Of The West

-A lleinan who lins been traveling through the Western country, writes lo tlie Newton Journal of what he has sècii. He says : 'I have seen many other grcat nnd amazing things - nmong which nro soil from '20 to 30 feet in depth - a Kentuckian 7 feet 10 inches high - a cat-fish weigh-. ing 100 pon ucis- 500 bushei of .trawberi-ies in one day, many of which were one inch in diameter - trees 27 feet in circumfcrance, prairie (lies nearly as large as humming birds, and musquitoes about the size of yellow wasps."