Show some account of a terrible invasion of pf locusts in the east we ave have a trite saying that aa a cat has hag nine lives but if f an en engi engl 1 I sh traveler speaks truly in the following extraordinary account the locusts locust of abe the east are endowed during their generation not only with nine lives but with ninety times nine diar marbry Mar Alar kry spirits turpentine or ir lyons Magn magnetic etie otle pow powder der would scarcely settle their stomachs they must be of the tho same species of bugs that troubled king pharaoh in the olden time lime an eastern summer is fuli full of wonders but hut there is perhaps nothing about it more awfully ap appa paling jing than those vast flights of locusts locust that som sometimes aimes kimes destroy the legeta vegetation rilon of whole kingdoms in a bev few days and where they found a ga garden leave a wilderness 1 1 am a riding along a pleasant hillside toward the end of 0 tatay nay may there is a sharp patter pattering i ng noise like that of april rain in Scot scotland land lard falling failing on hardground hard bard ground I 1 look attentively toward theearta he earth knowing that it cannot be a shower this clear balmy morning and I 1 see a countless multitude of little black insects no bigger than a pins head they are hopping and springing about in myriad myri myrl ads s under my horses feet along the hard stony s ton y road which js Is quite black yitti with them and far away among the heather which is turned black also I 1 ride miles and miles yet the ground is still darkened darken ed with those little insects and the sarn same e sharp pattering noise continues they are the young of the locusts who left their eggs ili in the ground last year they have just come to life three days ago there was not one to be seen been A little later and I 1 am passing through a greek village the alarm has spread everywhere and the local authorities have bestirred be stirred themselves to resist their enemies while still weak large fires are burning by the riverside river side stile and immense cauldrons caul drons full of boiling water are streaming over them the whole country side has been out locust hunting they have just returned with the result of their days lays exertion twenty three thousand pounds weight of these little insects each as I 1 have said no bigger than a plas pins head havil have been brought in already in one dby day Y they have bren baen caught in a surface of less lesi les than five square miles there has been no difficulty in catching them children of six years old can do it as well as grown men A sack and a broom are all that is necessary place the open sack on the ground and you yon may nay sweep it full of locusts as fast last as you can move your arms the village community pay about a farthing haifa haira balfa cent a pound for locusts some of the hunters have earned two or three shillings a day As the sacks backs are brought in they are thrust into the tile cauldrons caul drons of boiling water and boiled each for some twenty minutes they are then emptied into the rapid little river swollen by the melting of mountain snows it is said that they seldom remain at one place long but that ili in the fourth generation the tile race dies out unless it is 13 recruited from elsewhere in ten days they have increased very much in s size z e they are now as long as cockchafers cock cocke chafers hafers only fatter falter they seem to be of several distinct species their bodies are about an inch and a half long iong but some are much larger round than others they have six legs the hind bind legs of the largest kind are nearly three inches long or twice the length of the body they have immense strength and can spring four I 1 our or five five yards at a time the legs are terminated by sharp long claws and have lesser claws going about half way up at the sides of them their hold is singularly tenacious their leads heads and shoulders are covered with a kind of horny armor verv tough some are of a bright green color all over some have brown backs and yellow bellies with red legs and are speckled not unlike a partridge some are arc nearly black all over and have long wings the largest species have immensely long lag feelers projecting out near I 1 the a eyes I 1 noticed some of these feelers twice the length of the rest of the body the bite of the largest kind is strong enough to bend a pin this locust has line immense sharo sharn tusks furnished with haws saws inside his ilia mouth month opens on all four sides aad alid closes like a vice hh hk eyes are horny and he le can not shut abut them the largest kind have two short yellow wings and a long poi pol pointed anted fleshy tall tail the smallest have four lony ong bi black ack wings and no tail the head is always large I 1 in n comparison to the tha body ald arid arld not unlike that of f a lobster in moving its scales make a noise lle ile like the creaking of new leather the locusts am ar on the tho wing they have risen from the ground into the air they darken darker the sky in their istead 0 anaf they make mke a the lye the if a nighta nigh tj wind far as th it rebye aeye eye cal cadi cari see ee over oser la land inland and water broods the same samo cl cloud orld T the he imagination refuses to grasp their number it maist maist be counted by millions of mI millions lions Count the flakes of a snow allow storm the sands bands by the seashore the leate leave of summer trees tree and the blades of grass on dewy meadows for days and days the locust storm and the hot south wind continue at night might the locusts descend on the garden gardens and cornfields they crawl arid and hop loathsomely on fruit and flower they get into eggs andrish and fish become uneatable in consequence they thy eat hohs hole in my bedding they get into my pockets and luto my hair and beard the greek 0 women ard are obliged tg q te their trow sers sirs on ois gowns as a protection against diem olem th em you yoh tread upon them therril they blow against aga trist frist you they fly against you apu they dine ofia the sama cama pite and hop on a piece of food you are putting into your mouth their stench ia is horrible boi bor and lat lasts for tor k weeks 1 I 1 J 11 TA 1 ali all a I 1 noticed however that in n the years the locusts appear there is no blight or smaller insects about perhaps therefore they are mercifully sent to de destroy troy iroy the smaller and more danger dangerous r ous oua insects w when he they have multiplied exceedingly under the prolific suns of the east i but they are a dreadful visitant visitation sion tion they ate holes in my clothes as I 1 walked about they got among my servant camets arms they choked up the barrels of 0 his pistols and fed upon his sash of or silk and gold they ate ho the tassel essl of his cap an and d the leathern leathen sila sira sh each thi of ochi nis vis sword my french dressing gown might havo hato been taken for a recent purchase at rag fair they ate the sole of my slipper while I 1 was wa asleep on a sofa they ate my shirts in the and arid hey they ate my stockings they eat the back hair off heads beads while bashing washing at the fountain and the mustaches oss off gardeners while they sleep in the noonday shadow they strip trees till they look as if struck ll 11 by lightning nr r burnt by fire I 1 see the plants green gree anngay and gay ia ii the moonlight ili in the morning their freshness freshner fresh nes nea and their beauty have departed families sit wailing in their fields over the r ruin u ln of their little all there is a story that tile tiie locusts have eaten a child while its mother was away at work there is a tradition that they them once ate a drunken man who fell down in in he kennel neither event is improbable I 1 saw s iw a locust draw blood from the lips of an infant intent in its mothers arms I 1 they will not die they can swim for hours hot water cold water acids spirits smoke sm oke are useless I 1 plunged one in salt and water ho lie remained four minutes and sprung away apparently uninjured I 1 re caught him and an d smoked ara apa ed him for five minutes two minutes afterward he had bad revived and was hopping away ire ite caught the same locust and buried him as deeply in the ground as I 1 could dig with a pocket knife I 1 marked mark ed the place and next morning I 1 looked for my friend but he was gone nothing will kill them but smashing them to a jam with a blow or boiling them there is no protection against them they despise and eat the thickest cloths claths or sacking backing or matting ard glass coverings for fora a large extent of ground would be of course too expensive I 1 yet another three weeks toward the end of july and the cloud which has hovered oyer over over the th land so long is clearing away and there arises a great wind so that the tile locusts arfe arft swept off in sont Font countless countiess less armies to the seas seal sea and so drowned it is is impossible to bathe for days or to walk by bi the seas seab seashore sea shore bore because of the stench of them but they are gone and their bodies float over the thelea sea like a crust extending to the opposite coast of asia JI inor linor it has been noticed that they appear invariably about the middle of dla ala may y I 1 and that they dle dio 0 or r depart in august they are most mischievous duning during the month f fj june une they have au an objection to damp or marshy grounds the females bury themselves in the earth when dying probably to conceal their eggs the males die dio above ground where the ants and smaller insects speedily devour them neither rain nor cold however severe appears to destroy or the tha eggs which lie in the ground like seed during the tho winter and burst forth into life in the first warmth of ot summer each female is understood to have about fifty young which in some measure accounts for the astounding increase ozithe tribe they require about twenty days to attain their full growth sometimes longer inthe if the weather is is un favorable unfavorable ex |