Show grasshoppers in courts court cogbill Com bill magazine the vines of provence excellent in themselves though never turned to the same account as these of burgundy or bordeaux have been almost completely ruined by the I 1 dexera the provencal was satisfied if his wine was good enough to suit his own taste and that of his neighbors he had not laid by wealth to support him in the eyal day that has come Is there no help we askelof asked of a man of the poorer class it only 0 n I 1 rain much rain ra ai in can do good P T he e answered and laud he added we have not had a drop for four months the national disaster lias lists been borne home with the finest fortitude but in provence at least there the re seems to be small faith in any method of grappling with it il the vines they say are tire spoiled by the aftem attempt t to submit them to an artificial deluge de uge BO so one after the other oilier the peasant roots them up u and tries to plant lia cabbages or what t not three hundred years back alie Proven caux x would have k known dowil what measures to take the offending mcg in insect would have been prosecuted between 1540 1545 and 1596 1696 there was a run of these remarkable trials at arlea arles in 1565 the Arle asked for the expulsion odthe of the grats grass hoppers the case came before the tribunal de ite and maitre marin was assigned to ta the insects as counsel lie ile defended his clients with much zeal since the accused had been created he argued that they were justified in eating what was necessary to them the 0 opposite 0 1 cited the serpent in the gardes ga lph of eden and sundry other animals mentioned in scripture as having incurred severe penalties the grasshoppers got the worst of it and were ordered to quit the territory territory terri tor with a threat of from the altar to be repeated till the last of them bad had obeyed the sentence of the honorable court |