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Show HORRIBLE FATE. j A Frenchman Making; Scientific Research Re-search Killed by Locusts. Algiers, May IS. A French savant, sa-vant, M. Kunckle Ilercnlais, president of the Etimological society, who was employed on a government mission ot investigating the locust plague, met with a h.irrible death while examining some deposits of locusts eggs at the village of Sideral. lie was overcome with fatigue and heat and fell asleep on the ground. While sleeping he was attacked by a swarm of locusts. On awakening he struggled desperately to escape from the living flood. lie set fire to the insect-laden bushes near him, but all his efforts proved ineffectual, inef-fectual, and when finally the locusts left the spot his corpse was found. |