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TERRITORIAL ENTERPRISE

Wednesday April 9, 18909

OUTSIDE ITEMS.

Gold Hill Sproutings -- Arbor Day Amenities -- Flora Finlayson at Reno -- Frog Eradication.

Although C street, in the heart of the city, is under a cloud of mud, snow, slush and general filth, the remnant results of wintry dispensation, all is dry and dusty southward over the Divide and down the canyon. Gold Hill already howls for the sprinkling cart.

A SNOW BONANZA.

Huge snow banks yet remain unmelted in all the ravines and even among the houses. Between the old Vesey House and the Episcopal Church in Gold Hill a huge lot of snow piled itself into a space of a dozen feet, to a depth of a fathom or two. Joe Bawden of the Vesey, having a practical eye to business utility, located that big pile of snow, buried it beneath 178 sacks of sawdust, and thus secured it for the coming hot season to cool off drinks and other things with, and keep the Sabbath congregations also cool on that side of the house.

SPRING SPROUTINGS.

Schweiss, James, Gorham, Harris and many others along down the canyon have trees and shrubbery leaving out, and promising piles of fruit as well as agreeable ornamentation during the coming season, and Silver City, as well as Dayton, are still further advanced and promising in that respect. Violets and other wild flowers are also beginning to deck the hillsides, and the popular old sagebrush is coming out finely in new sproutings and verdant rejuvenation.

ARBOR DAY.

Governor Stevenson's proclamation as to Arbor Day -- last Thursday -- was not very heavily responded to, very few new trees of any kind being planted anywhere along the Comstock range. Carson did much better, and Reno stood to the front very respectably, as usual. At the State University appropriate exercises were held in honor of the day, and trees were planted by the various classes. And each tree was dedicated in due form to some favored professor or newly arrived baby of a professor (a good juvenille crop being now harvested).

One of the trees was thus dedicated to ex-President Brown, somewhat to the dissatisfaction of many of the students, who insisted that it should have been "to the memory of," etc. One witty Carson lady standing near and hearing Brown thus honored, remarked that she "hoped it wouldn't prove a bad omen for the tree, and result in it getting its head cut off a la Brown."

A NEVADA ARTISTE.

Sunday evening the Opera House in Reno was densely crowded, the occasion being a combined Easter service. The principal attraction, however, was the presence of Miss Flora Finlayson, a well known former resident, who stopped over to spend the day with friends, the "Bostonians," the troupe of which she a member continuing on to San Francisco. Opinion as to the high quality and improved merits of her singing were somewhat divided, but all agreed in saying that her pure contralto voice came forth with wonderful ease and richness.

A NATURAL REMEDY.

Yesterday a Carson vocalist was complaining that through a bad cold he had a "frog in his throat," therefore was not able to sing. A friend told him: "Just you swallow a Frenchman, and he'll get away with the frog."

ALF DOTEN.