Show inundations AND INSECTS laa la A year various causes cow corn billed to inflict heavy damages on many of the people in ili the eastern state stats and to cut off their crops of i wheat and other grain vegetables tables etc the first were heavy rains and high waters which caused the rivers to overflow their banks levees to I break by which a great scope of country was inundated much property was destroyed and a I number of lives lost drought succeeded the rains rams and floods and the crops in the fields perished for the lack of moisture the tile gr angers were the greatest sufferers this year already tho the floods have begun to spread desolation dismay and death in the mississippi miss d lr p FF valley thousands of people c arc suffering in consequence and the outlook for tho planter in in many places is anything but encouraging how far the floods will extend and to what extent the agriculturist will be put back on his spring work no one at present can divine but whether the tile floods will continue for a long or short period whether they spread over much country or are confined to certain localities the prospect in a number of places is gloomy from another cause the tile effects of which arc are likely to make themselves felt severely we now speak of tho the old enemy from whose devastations the tile people of utah have suffered so anu much ell in ill years that arc are past tho grasshoppers according to the new york sim sun Z in myriads of ta cheso iese injurious insects have made their appearance in westchester county new york and have caused great alarm ninon among f the farmers the sun s says ays the region round about the village of mount kisco on the harlem railroad is possessed by farmers who v ho by rising early going to bed late and working hard ban after the manner of their forefathers compel the stony lands to yield them a living they are exercised much just now at the appearance in in several places of large numbers of grasshoppers though grasshoppers have been seen there in former winters they have never been known in such quantities as now in anticipation the farmer already sees next seasons flourishing f fields of co corn and grain gruin cut down by the sprightly insects whether or not the presence of grasshoppers in the tile fields at this season promises ill for the future all agree that it is curious the grasshoppers acra should choose for their camp one of the coldest spots in westchester Vest chester county it is i a meadow on the farm thornald thorn Thor nand and ig is on tho the summit of a bleak rido ridge across which tile wind whistles ewt I ast year the hay was not harvested and now by a kick of the foot in the long dry matted grass a multitude of grasshoppers are stirred epand up and fly in every direction it is said that after the recent heavy fall of snow the cra gra shoppers were seen skating around on oil tile surface aa ws lively a as some of the grasshoppers are as green as katydids but the tile rank and file are of a deep brown color nearly black and are streaked w with ith bars of a deeper brown color these creatures arc are a fearful scourge in any country where they commit their ravages and attempts to fight or destroy them arc are of but little avail their works of destruction of tho the fruits of tile toil of the husbandman arc are swift t and sure before them may be a garden of E eden den but when they have passed through it they leave desolation behind them THE tiie OF or RUSSIA is a spiritualist itu alist and has of late added a c considerable onside rable amount of spiritualist literature to his library which has been purchased for him in america A short timo time since a complete file of the banner of light the spiritualist journal was advertised for sale by byes ex judge peter P good of new jersey who now informs the editor that the purchaser was an agent of the late czar of russia and that the volumes are now in the imperial library in st petersburg the P collection of spiritualist books and periodicals odthe of the czar is said to be the largest in ili the tho world |