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A LOCUST PLAGUE. An . Annual Affliction of Aus tralian Agriculturists. Locusts Covering the Ground Four Inches. Deep. In order to check, if possible, the annual plague of locusts that devour the herbage and blast the hopes of graziers, farmers and fruit growers to a greater or less extent iu December, the Victorian Government iroclaimed November 7 and 8 last as holidays for the scholars and schoolmaster in the rural districts, in order that they might co-operate with the settlers in destroying the young locusts in the early stage of their development, be fore they have been equipped with wings enabling them to tako flight over the country to begin their work of devastation. "With this end in view, preparations were made in numerous parts of the interior to de stroy the pest in various ways, such as by beating with branches the beds in the fields where the as yet wingless creatures were known to exist, or har rowing the ground or turning flocks of sheep upon the land and moving them rapidly about so as to tread upon and kill or injure the young brood, and also by district that the locusts arc attacking the flags on the wheat stalks, and iu some instances the wheat heads have been eaten off. One report states that in the locality of Walbnndrie about thirty miles from Albury. the pest is travelling southwards, in the direction of the Murray, in columns several milc3 wide, partially obscuring the sky, and advancing at the rate of ten miles in twenty-four hours, resting to devour green spots, and then winging :heir way to fresh pastures. Pall Mall Gazette. Alaskan Streams Teem lYIth FIstf. Alaska is 2000 miles in extent one way by 1700 miles the other. The icy wastes of its northern part are the home of the polar bear, while in its southern forests the humming bird nesls. With fish the streams are- 60 crowded that a favorite method of capturing them is by thrashing the surface of the water with a -rake- shaped instrument, a scaly victim being often jerked out on each prong. When the salmon are making their way up tt;e rivers at the spawning scasou the bears come down in num bers and feed upon them, eating only the heads. Boats are often much impeded in their progress by the finny myriads. The ocean fishing banks of Alaska are greater in extent than those of the SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. 1 RELIGIOUS READING. north Allantic.an.l afford inexhaustible spreading straw on the plague spots supplies of fish, certainly equal if not and setting fire to it. Iu such ways superior in size and qualiity to those w I vast destruction was done to the armies of the young locusts in the early Ptagc of their existence. It was seen, however, that the raid upon the vermin should have been made some what earlier, as numbers were already 60 far advanced as to be on the wing on this mission of mischief; and bc- caught on the eastern seaboard. Cod arc found there in vast quantities. Along the Yukon the natives dry their fish for winter use, burying what they require for current consumption in the ground until it becomes sufficiently putrid, when they eat it with a relish, preferring it much in that way. Fun- sides, the attack upon them was not so nily enough, alligators in the south generally made as was desirable in follow a very similar pvactisc, burying some districts of Victoria, while north I their meat in muddy banks until it has of the Murray comparatively little of- become sufficiently decayed to be fort was put forth to cope with the more digestible. Boston Transcript. evil, owing to the fact that on the New South Wales and South Austra lian side of the Murray the bulk of the laud is taken up with large squatting runs, and population i sparse there, thus giving the ravaging locusts almost complete scope to propaga'e. Fanciful Derivations. The San Angelo (Tex.) Enterprise says: ''The term 'greaser,' as applied to Mexicans of the lower classes, was not started, as many suppose, as a sig nification of disrespect, but was ap" People- at homo can hardlv conceive p'ted by a witty war correspondent in how serious the locust plague is in these colonies. Recently the reports came that the creatures massed them selves so thickly along some of the lines of railways that, although the brakes were shut down, the trains could hot bo brought to a stand until they. had gone half a mile beyond the stations, owing to the multitudes crushed beneath tlic wheels causing the trains to pass along a3 if the rails were covered with oil. The wheels actually slid along the rails. In many of the northern towns the inhabitants had to closo their doors to keep out the invading hosts. The plague ha now fairly begun work, writes a corre spondent of the Glasgow Herald. In. the southern parts of New South Wales and sqinc of the northern portions of Victoria the oujlook is ominous. In and around Barnawarlha (Victoria) the insects arc spreading in swarms and causing great destruction. A resident of that district reports that iu traversing that part of the country, in his biiggy the wheels of his vehicle were completely imocuucu in masses of young caterpillars and grasshoppers, - ! w'nicn on many extensive areas "covered the whole surface to a depth of about four inches like a gigantic and undulating coat of green paint." Where the country presented any depressions it Avas found impossible to pass with a buggy, and in several favorable localities, such as low-lving lanes, etc, tho insects were surging about in masses some two or three feet deep. The ground in their wake is quite destitute of grass. Such are some of the breeding grounds from which, the fully developed creatures take flight to waste aud destroy other parts of the conntrv. In the Butlier glen district (Victoria) the locusts are doing great damage, eating up tho grass and invading the extensive vine yards. Ono vineyard owner there hav ing ten acres of vines reports his entire crop as spoiled. The grapes are not yet fully formed, but tho locusts are busy stripping the leaves and ring ing tho bunches, the result being that these wither and cie. So dense are the insects that work lias to bo sus pended, n the horses will not face them. Keports como from the AIbu y 184G, just after the battle of Palo Alto, to those Mexicans who had foresworn allegiance to their own country and in preference to fighting taken tho task of loading and unloading provi sion trains, which then consisted mostly of bacon. In this way they gained the name of the 'greaser brig ade.' " Whatever the term implies, it is much older than th3 Enterprise sup- oses. It was known to the United States volunteers who came to what is now the Indian territory in 1831. at he end of the Black Hawk war. The story that the name Maverick, applied to yearling cattle, was given on ac count of the head of the San Antonio family of that name, is equally fabu lous. It was iu use in Louisiana be fore that state was a part of the United Slates. Dallas (Tex.) News. A machine has recently been inven ted for making shoestrings out of paper. A petroleum-motor tricycle has been invented that will run forty miles on one gallon of oiL The English bacteriologist who dis covered taxalbumcns has just f ouud a remedy for anthrax. - The French artillery is using an ex plosive made of cryolite iu their shells instead of gunpowder. The average weight of the human adult brain is 48 puncc3 in tho male aud 45 ounces in the female. At the dcp:h of about 3500 feet the tempcraturo of tho ocean is about the same, varying only a trifle from tho polar latitudes to the equator. It has become quite the thing in the polite world to employ the art of the electrician for the decoration of ban quet halls and reception parlors. Two heavenly bodies are in con junction" when they have the samo right ascension, or are on the samo meridian, namely when one is due north or sonth of the other. A sugar fifteen times 6wecter than cane sugar, aud twenty times sweeter than beet sugar, is reported by a Ger man chemist from cotton-seed meal. It cannot be sold to compete with tho ordinary article. There is very little ebb or flow of tide ii the Arctic, but occasionally there are vel-y strong currents. All winter there is a general flow of tide and ice toward the south, while in summer this flow is northward. A well-known cmbalmer, Dr. Vickersheimer, has produced a liquid so perfect that it can be applied successfully to game. An embalmed hare served after having been shot six weeks was recently pronounced to be as good as fresh. A writer on mosquito bites declares that common soap is as effective a remedy as ammonia, chloroform, or any of the many articles recommended. The lather is allowed to dry over tho affected part, when till burning and pain 60on disappear. A recent survey, it is stated, has established the number of glaciers in tho Alps at 1155, of which 249 have a length of more than four and three fourths miles. "The French Alps contain 141 glaciers, those of I:aly 78, Switzerland 471 and Austria 4G2." A material closely imitating mala chite is made by precipitating a solu tion of cupric sulphati by potassium or sodium carbonate. When tho pre cipitate ha3 settled and cohered, it is dried with gentle heat, and may then be cut and given a beautiful polish. A patented shoe-blacking which contains no acid is made in Gcrmanv m ov uissoiving casein in a solution of ir i cocld 05X.T rsow. "Casting all rour cares upon Him, for He mh for you' I. Pet. v. 7. cam a for you Ifl could only surely know That ell these thing that tire roe so Were noticed by my Lord ! The pamrdiiat cuts roe like a nlfe, The unity the weariness. tle strife What peace it would afford! I wonder II He really shares In all these little Unman caret. This mighty King of kinzsl If lie vbo guide through boundless space Each blazing planet In it place. Can have the condcseendinjc grace ' To mind these petty things. It teems to me, if sure of this. Blent with each ill would come such bliss That I might covet pjln. And deem whatever brought to me The loving thought of Deity, And sene of Christ sweet sympathy, rot loss, but ncnast gain. Dear Lord, my heart Khali no mre doubt That thou dot conij a me about With sympathy divine. The Love for me once crucind U not the love to leave my ride, But waiteth ever to divide Each smallest care of mine. oowso cmracn-corRs. Not only for the sake of the child of to day, but for the take of the man of the future, should parents bring their children to the house of God. If the coming iren emtion is to be the church-goer, the children of the present must Uj church goers. The failure on the part of Cbriibn parent to take their children to church, br gent:e but firm com pub ion if necwary, fs the preparation of a generation who will neglect the home of God. And for that teglect the Christian parents cf today will be responsible. Bible Teacher. ISVTTED SIX TIME.. In one of the Rev. C. II. Yatmnn's evan ce istie nervier recently held in the South, he related this incident of a youn-r man in Philadelphia who was asked oa Monday to be a Christian, but declined; on Tuesday another worker gave hlru the choice of re ceiving or rejecting Chrltt. and he icfued: on Wednesday it happened that again um one said to him, "Give your heart lo Jeu." but No," was all the answer thev got. Thursday, by a strange providence, be was once more urged to give up sin, and again on Friday wa lovinglv invited to nek the Saviour of all men all with no eflect. As tnough God would do all that coukl be dime, once more on Saturday he was entreated to follow Christ," but atuhbornlv refuted. It was Ins lat retusal. lie said, "No, I won't. Vm going to have tome fun and a good time. Tomorrow I'm goins to Atlan tic City for a Sunday's holiday trip, and I don't want you folk to keep tormenting me with your gospel invitations." He was never nhked again. Six times in vited ami mx times refused! Sundav he went for his p!ea.ure to the sea, but when he came back on Monday It was m his cofliu. lie was drowned wL'.ie bathing. borax or soda and adding resinate of iron, besides the usual bone-black, grease and sugar. A brilliant luster is imparted by the casein, and the res inate of iron gives a deep black color. The A-borning of a Fish. Few things in this world are more curious than the method by which a little fih comes into being. The grown female lays a quantity of eggs and upon this spawn the male subse quently deposits its milt. The milt, examined beneath the microscope, is found to contain an endless number of minute pollywogs. Each egg has a small hole iu it, aud through this hole a pollywog makes its way into a nu cleus contained within what is called the "germinal vesicle." Tho result is that the nucleus takes life and quickly it begins to multiply, becoming two, then four, then eight and so on. These cells, all the time multiplying by di vision, combine together and begin to form tho cellular structure of the or gans tho eyes and the heart first of the fish that is to be. Finally, when the creature is made, it bursts it3 transparent shell and swims as if it had always been used to that sort of thing Washington Star. A Good Excuse. ; Biddy There's a couple o ladies cabed, MisaU3 Do Vcre. Mrs. De VereOh, dear, I can't see any one now. Excuse me, Biddy. Tell them I'm asleep. Biddy Missus 'Do Verts presents her compliments, an says she'a very wirry, bat ehe's asleep. Texaj Sittings. The First System of Tosts. A system of posts was established in England In the time of Edward IV., about 1481, and postmasters were ap pointed; but their business was con finefi t o furnishing post horses .to the carriers of tho Government, and to persons who were desirous of travel ing expeditiously or who wished to send important packages upon special occasions. Iu 1635 Charles I. estab lished a letter office for the transmis sion of letters between England and Scotland, but these only extended to a few of the principal roads. The lines of carriage were uncertain, and the postmasters on each road were re quired to furnish horses for the con veyance at the rate of live cents per mile. The establishment did not suc ceed, and at the breaking out of the civil war great difficulty was experi enced in the traumiaion of letters. At length a postoflice, or a national establishment for the weekly convey ance of letters to all parts of the King. THE POWEK OF THE GOSPEL. The theory of Strauss, that the Gospel have a mystical origin, was fu.ly xofed when it first appealed Mime forty or fifty yenrs ago, hut it otten reappear in various forms. It may l worth while, therefore, to reproduce an old tut true incident which occurred some ears fciute and was then widely circulated: - oiue lime since, a woinm delivered a .eeture in Lancashire, Kmrlaud, anint Christianity, in which she dec'arctt th.-t the Gospel larrative of the lite of ChrUt U a myth or fable. One of the mill hands who listened to her obtained leave to ask a question. "The question." said he, "I want to ak the lady i: '! hirty xct a::o 1 wa a cuie to this town, and 'eveiylnodv shrank from me that had any n-spect for hhn.elf. I oticn tried lo do better, but could not Miccced. Ttic teetotalers got bold of me. but I b-oke i he pledge so often that they said it was no use trying me any long er; then the iolice got hoid of me and I was taken before the inaziMrate. a-.d they tried; and next I wa Kent to prison, and the wardens tried what they could do, but though they all tried, I was nothing better, but rather woric. 'Now, you sav that Christ is a myth. But when l trid, and tbc teetotaler. th police, the magistrates, and the wardens of the prison, all t.ied in vain, then Christ took hold of me, touched ray heart, and rxnde me a new man. And now I am a raemt er of the church, a clas leader, a superintendent of the Sunday-School ; and I aa, if Chrt U a m . th, how'comes it to pass that that myth i Kt rouge r than all the others put toother!" The lady was silent. Xay, miss,' .id be, say what you will, the Gospel is the lower of God umo talratlon.'" "i am ur owie mastm 'I am my own master." says the youns? man. Weil, be vour own matter, aud tit ! down aud have an earnest and plain talk with yourself. Ask yourself who you are, what you are, what you have been doin, what you arc doing now, and what you pro pose or expert to do hereafter. Ask yoirsclf what you have done to make the world wifer. or better or happier. Try to ascertain whether you have done the world harm or done it Kood. see if you have been of any real service to mankind, and how. What are you worth totlie worbl in which ycu live hat great enterprise for the promotion of human interest would Miller by jour death? How many wo-itd rul you or care whether you lived or died? Y"u are one of fourteen hundred mill-ons of human linza on earth. How much, and what sort of influence have you exercised on others? or have you. or do you exercise any inCunce worth notice? . You ate your ow inater. Ioe th rn ter try to be a man, or i he content "to Of a mere cipher, an 0 in society? lln he suffi cient self-respect to keep himself above all that is low. coarse, vuar and bad? lKe he always ak thetrutu never ueo!cene nor profane language never do a mean thinic? I be always regardful of ae, re rxctfuttn qua!a and kind to Inferiors? Ioe he labor arne-tly to improve hl mind, hi mora's and his manner; or. I he care less, idle and indfiYrent to s-ch thine? l)o o- ; be spend much time iu the company of id er doin, was established by Cromwell n -n k ,.e. ii ung and f-uii.h talking? if J so. ted him that master of ruiirt-UUm, 1C49. i t!.e Hrou tra k. and if he due not awiti-h Limself off. there is u-ejy a crash ahead, and no one to save the plecc,and when it comes. ecdy Client If I lose ray case, I ; Lim r'gbt. He might hare known it would come. He lived for it and he has It. You are your own master." Itetter watch that master very close! t'm that he forma no bad habit, keep iut of com; any, uses no Improper lanrua-e Is alwaya engaged in Some honet and uaefui Pursuit. hve hooet;r, truthfully acd ue tuily. If tfceae acd like things are well aud faithfully attended to, then and thTT" - - " i aui real ' the generation In which you Xf v ber there will he many obstacles to ll' come, many difficultly to be enrrt. T many temptations to be reshted tr i ?1 hard strogicles between lDe!toaUon .' i -? so that you will have to put doan"7' will force you can poibly coi2aln , choose the right in all thiegs and stirk . and ail wUl end well. It reVjuireV. !!; and earnest effort to be a true rain rrrtnarri,.l ..a S j --. w. .um( suit 3 ei e?r may be a true man If be wi!L With ;111 privilege granted, and all tbe a.iva-.5 attainable, it still depend, on the in T1! himself whether or no. be wlu u i man. bt. Louis Advocate. .TEMPERANCE, , The London Trmryranrc .VrorJ .The Glasgow Et tad Cihibjti. J? was opened br tlis Marqai of Lotfcua have none of the drink -bars th &tVi gracM other exhibition A ttnnr tVi was raaJe to iaduo th? Lorl rroro grant & licmu for it, and hrt wtTerM f. time, but ultimately refusM the reqat If an exhibition can be h?M in Gl without honor, it oujht certainly t alblc at. Chicago. Xati&nal .4iroca'. pnrstcMxa akd TrxrraAxcx. Upon no one does responsibility for tv continuanca of the widdy prereiaat. iaiw loos social drinking usage ret more hn! than upon the members of the miicl tri fession. Medicine, in the tree seose. U cr renUre as well as remedial. Amonz tba agencies produeUre ot disease, rbysal aU moral, intoxicating liquors are pre-enimeat Ine attitude which physicians as a class aa. same toward the us of intoricatusc bTr. Se. personally and prpfeioaaiIy,th-refce lnvolres very largely for pool or til, th t teresta of the temperance reform. There hare been fru.Ti the heginniax. the time of Dr. Benjamin Uu&h. an 1 are dov a few eminent American phyttcan wha have done mu;h to eocouragr, by bcth ti ample and precpt, the cause of tnp;ra2- But thev ha re been and coatiou to b a srigj minority of the profession as a w'uo. verr large msjority o: physiciaa cprn social ana festive occasions, at thtr baa. quels, etc. do not hesitate to jutm 1 frr-!j and to peirtaks of intoxicants, Tha Inrca tional Medical Congress, LeU lost year in Berlin, appoars to liave been a itrikiaj aal most unseemly object-teon of this kioi. A Berlin correponJent of ths I'hila Wrtis Medical ami Surgical lit porter writes.: 'The disgracef at scenes at tn bauqset giren by the city of Berlin to the Metlcu 0;gri were recently the to-.lc of diru&k3 in coca ell. A Councilman called it the mfvlicai schuetxenfest,' and emphajlrl th waste of money, uo was not aitogetu;r wroug. The money spent by the city for the llaitibaru banquet was really rnormou, and t!;s reidt was the total intoxication of most ct tLa shining lights of tho protekn." This correspondent, whom wc assnx tobs a physician, and from the hi'a profttftosai standing of the journal iu wa;ch the letter U pubUshei, also to t-e trustworthy, gireiali tional details of the great medical driakia; boutinthe German capital as follow: I regret to sty that the bigger the rata ths more he was inebriated. On a 1'rofcssor whose name is a household word a'J over tbe medical world artificial respiratna u practiced for almost an hour, ant nnth-r professor who has revolutionize 1 oa of t most important of medical branch s had a bad cut in his head, the result of a fait A French physician who has m le hi nas renowned by fighting intenrjerar.ee throoja exposure of the iniary Inflicted upon tn organism by, alcohoC was unable to a;H bis own nams. "By a queer coincidence I aln aaw two men huzgiag each ether who ar known as irreconcilable antagonists in scv ence, one a leader in German bacteriologists, and the other a well-known I'aris protessur who does not believe in bacilli " Buch disgraceful alcoholic exci.s on tbe part of eminent medical mn. It nt tLzt well attested, would seam wll nigh kxred Ible. We may hop that they would not, at least. In grossoesj and want of comtnoo de cency, be equaled at any Lindrl gstherirg in this country. Yet wo remember that ti liquor supply for the late Intruatioaal Medical Congress, held in Washington, ai reported in the public journals, was very larga. .YatoMaZ Temperance .ldccatr. AUT0TI0I. AS A KVZTVJICE. It will ba a shircring sarnriso to th am age reader to know that o! lata a coholpx-s and . simple, has become n bvraz ia America, esrectaijy la tbs iet, orVJ west a-wl in ta coal regions of Poansylvaaia. Even in 'e York City tns census retor&J ettimate fiftvn birrIs a dzj as the allow ance for drinking purposes. It is an innovation as atarthng as that cf tho opium habit when it came in. As the opium habit came through th3 Chines, so the alcohol habit has co:no throajh ths Pole. Norwegian, IS wades, Finns, Haa garians and Russians, The ccjerness with whic'i any such crJ rractico becomes "all tao razo" araar I drinking people may be seen from th fact 1 thai, aithouza recently introlu? and at Erst Indulged in quickly, alcohol is now soil over the bar in te lower-gmla bar-roica. One-half of the liquor sold for drink xg pnrposf in the Nortuwest is alcohoL Tint w a phase of ths liquor problem that may well cause alarm, even among those wL ars naturally indifferent to the ordinary. evils u. the social drinking of light beverage. Lotion Traveller. . Dr.AK rrrr rirs axd died. George Johnson, the colored porter t. ti. Court Exrhange, Pari Texas, was sr;t t feed some horses, but went instead to anotl' saloon where tlie porter invited him t LrsX He poured out a plot of whisky ani drtik rt off. The osrner o.Tere-1 hita aoott?r. waa b drank, and bystanders put U3 thre taorc I all of which he swoliowei. lie wa t I drunk to co aione. and a negro was et t I pilot him home orel pnt Lim to be-1- Aboa and found him dad Tue enorroocs ,ia-tT of whisky he hat taken it is upp"i rrts ed hear actiaa. lit. Lom.i r-uU'.V. The Monej Safe. don't see how you are to be paid Lawyer Oh, don't worry about that, ray dear sir. The lawyer on the other aide is my partacr. New York J Weekly. tx-trrsAKCZ HKvri aso sorts. It is na excae for a man to drink b"" cause C&rist turns 1 water into win .. Denmark has firo local TT. C. T. frlnt Bpecial attention is given U wcrf-i a the children. Fifteen bun Ira I women o' Corl- t-'.oat the League of tae Cross. Tw u the rnorai-snasion line. God and ths talooa-k-???r never about anything. The devil don't f JM to sign the pledge. God don. Mrs. Mary Grant Cramer, a u era! Grant. Is an active worker m Woman's Christian Temperaoc i - The Patrons wis., at a larg uungs the total aappresaion traQc, . South America has bet ono itn.n 9 of In-iustry. of Green CocT. rgelyttent wii'--tUons demandiac amon. -r an-1 doe pood work forty men havs been laiac-l t.o total abstinence pledge. A Lnjj c' anew Legixm, nomberm; very two weeks.
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