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Show NEAR STATE NEWS ITEMS. The Graantiopperi Invade llailey. After staying around the town for months, says the llailey (Idaho) Times, the loathsome, destroying grasshoppers have finally invaded it. Tho invasion began last Saturday, whun tho Tatro and Jackson gardoun, at the north end of Main street swarmed with the pests. Sundt.y they progressed as far as Move's stable, about 12) yards, and Monday they reached the corner of Silver and Main streets, I'.'i yards further. fur-ther. There they seem to pause possibly pos-sibly owing to the existence of a tine garden wiiosu owner has tilled it with choice plauts, the accumulation accumula-tion of the past seven years, and the expression of tiie knowledge of the adaptability of the plauts to this climate which he acquired during that time, at much labor ami expense. iiut the grasshoppers tlid not only in-vadts in-vadts Main street. They have spread all over the north ami cast side of town and as far south ami east asCroy street aud Second a.-enue. They do not seem to be very voracious as yet; but hundreds hund-reds of thousands of grasshoppers cannot can-not visit a lot oi town gardens without comiuittin.cc depredations, so that the damage is considerable. As. however, tho 'hoppers have attained at-tained lo the dignity of wings, it is ! possible that we will soon be rid of j them. |