Show IMPORTED A PEST A Strange Discovery in San Francisco Fran-cisco Harbor San Francisco Jan 23The British ship 3Iill Wall Captain Bremnar arrived ar-rived In < port a short time ago from Rangoon Burmah with a cargo supposed I sup-posed to be composed exclusively of rice riceWhen When the hatches were removed however how-ever a vast swarm of insects flew out and on examination the hold was found to be literally alive with them S much s in fact that it a an impossibility I im-possibility for the sailors to descend for fear of suffocation Professor Davidson of the United States geodetic and coast survey has obtained specimens of the Insects and recognizes among them two species of the common American weavil But there are several others which are unknown un-known to him and which he has sent to the university at Berkeley for classification classi-fication They may turn out to be a great pest |