HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1890-7-24, Page 6BTL IN Jun ism
,04,1.4.0A sum, Me Town Ito Waterloo
Stays.
-At is am- .eese.• task to reconstruct the plc -
Imo Bruesele on the eve a the" glorious
eighteenth." The elienges windli have tekeu
tplecti, sisece then areas numerous as they are.
.sweeping; the conteMporery journals mem
havt:5calt n everything except news.,
toad after the lapse a threeemertere a a
Watery e-erO ism:- eye -witnesses remain who
are still endowed with " sound %Maid, mem-
id uuderstausling," In a word, the
Brawls a 1830 has little or nothion in
ononn.on with the Brussels of 1815. An a
+netted cheniner high tip in the tower of the
41e Ville, M. -Alphonse Wauters, the
cite- are -titan, whose Career began with the
terties," oneartlied for my edication a
-sleety Me of the Jeanie? tie la 21cloigne arid
Whe Oeciee. .
It is .miblent from a cursory peruml of
-their coutents that the Betel= world %lur-
ing that eveutful Spring :bragged much a
wind in site of the clin et war, the pee:mime
foreiga troops, and the preparetions for
the %mamma croullict. Napoleon • Ited many'
zemapethizers Steissels, the
, eowrinrsen we WS DESTINY"
ewes Widespreed, and he WaS generally spelt-
= of ea the Emperor till Wellingtoo, returned
neictoriees„. when he beeeme simple ” Bone -
parte" or something worse. it will be a
atirpriec tO teeny to learn Oust the great
Ihike contrived to combine., bueinees with
pleasure during the -time he was the guest
of M. Van dea Crania in the IllattaiOn HOw
'pecapiect by M. Matthieu, the tinencier, rn
Ihreltue Royale. On April 2S he gave a
-went dinner at the Hotel Bellevue, (where
he afterward lot1ge41,) haviug Admiral Sir
Sidney Smith among Ms guests.
It Waal:410YMa by a ball in. the hell of
'the Grand Coneert (or Cencert Noble) W. the
Bete Ducale. On Mey 13 be entertained
'the Princesat a. banquet in the imperial -
Tooms.at Leu, and on May 28 be organ-
ized a seconiland more splendid fete in honor
alf Marshal Illaeher at the Coneert Noble.
Be Visited Ihreltien, Ghent, iwbere lie paid
bis respeets a% the couregeous ihiehess d'
4algouleme,1 mid:Atli the went with Blueher
'firlemoueandt;rauntiont he patronized
eatAbaS CON..5.-rtS Mi.:15 at ; be -WAS
ofeu peewee: at the performarnes of the
"hiontieie" he set for hie bast Ruethiel
-be walked, to dinner in the AlleaVente, and
he held liniment reviews en the plains of
ItIontplaisir, ewe' covered with bricks and.
mortar.
The Totireel of June 13 Hittite itS military
intelligence to the Weet propOsed ey the
Duke atOlient, "A l'herome de Frauee : a
dellewatito de la patrie, et a la chute du
sYsnn," %bad' an advertisement of "Elegeut
English lores, well worthy the attentum
of Officers." Next day it tells its readent all
abaLt the painters" fete at Antiverp and the
,Ontch Scientifie Seciety at Heatlein,Qn
the 16th it makes no mentioned the Duchess
of Rielneenal's ban, but, reports that Le
Lege" was A anceeee at the Wand Theatre,
and Alma the Perielaus are siwting
'"Quanil Mint empe Fem. passe,
Qtie de v it nitro la violater
It is ode* CA the 17th (when Wellimettni
had won Qmettre Baas, and. was .rnareldeg
bwk tO ont t. Jame that Brussels was
informed ha print of the cros..eirig of the
frontiera—and the prodeotion of "Los Delta
Figaros" at the lloiraahre OnSunday, while
Tho bettle vaned round Ifougontont and. La
Heye Sainte;Brecieels learnol that Welling-
tou heti slept at thmappe. but without the
fleintese mention of Quetre Bms, although
the Mayor (Barond'Hooglworst)asks urgent-
ly for beds and inattresses. Monday's cat-
gut% ("Souneenhula" was being played at the
Mtuniale while Napoleon 'WU flying thward
the frontier 3 omits Waterloo altogether,'
bn announces the arrival of Demoulin and
Canibateres as prieonem, and the mainlin-
ing of the Duke of Brunswie.les body. On
the iS9tb. the greet triumph is nroclaimed in.
tliteelines; the
'rt.= salmi= or mien
women'
i! r .5. 15.t.tat rA'-"earramt
saw an. English soldier flogged for theft out.
ed evn gate. .
Joseph Le Maitre still wears the gold
ear -rugs iu vogue at the beginning of the
century, and he has not yet finally resier,ne necl under the waof Ste. tounde an then nay
Ins eeelesiastical functions. He saw 'both to Quetre Bras. Four years previously
Wellington and Blucher in the streets of Marie Louise had patted her on the head
ia
Enghieu, and often heard from, the lipsof the Laelten Gardens, Ou the morning of
Ina friend Pateruote, the postilion who drove ' the 19th she stood by the Namur Gate and
them to Granunont, how thelVlarshal prod.- saw the long couvoy of wounded file by.
ded himwith his sword when he hesitated (-1.:110 Euglioll officer, who was riding, had lost
to go two.okly down a steep slope. Le "hlaitre, ibis arm aud the stump was bandaged, up in
then a boy of fourteen, laid mself down OA eanyae "Sine e liana" Sacre helped
hi
to look after the wouuded in the Petit are,
which, like the rest of Brussels, was turned
into a hospital for at least six weeks.
Though m her ninty-third year, she is very
proud of her brother's successes, and it is
certainly a curious coincidence thee the son
of the man who wound up Napoleon's clocks
at Laeken, Ana repaired his wateli before be
went to Moscow, should live to make come
passes for the Congo States, and gain the
old medal for Balances de precision at the
Paris Exhibition of 1S7S. It is now just
seventy-five years since thesethings happen-
ed, yet Xf. Spaak, Mine. Ippersiel;and Mlle.
Sacra eau speak of them as everits of yester-
day. Thew personal reminieceneee of those
stirring times will, as far as the coming
,Waterloo' day is concerned, hare much
greater interest than the 'latest intelligence'
of the forgotten Journal de J3elgique or the
laconic senteuees of its equally dull colleague
the Oracle, The present has its claims as
well As the past, and, 1 most leave the Tierra.
tives of those who Aetually saw Duke Fred -
%trick William in his plumed head gear de-
part so bravely for lite last battle -field, to go
to Genappe, where, forty-eight hours hence,
the obelisk deetined to perpetuate his valor
for all time ie to be solemnlyinaugurated on
the eeventy-Afth anniversary of his tragic
death."
--
Sacre's elocks grimed the mantelpiece—and
she was seventeen when she watched the
Duke of Brunswick and his ofncers, with
their skull and eros -bone helmets, aassiug
the turf in the Due d'Areuberee s park to
hear the eehoes of the cannon, but he says
uothing impressed him so much as the pro-
found. sileuce which followed the last
shot. Ife witnessed the deperture of the
troepa for Braine-le-Coute in the dead of
Wit, and he used to play with the two
soldiers We:ea on his father. The survivors
and contemporaries of Waterloo are more
difficult to find in Belgium than in England,
A solitary Belnien, veteran—J. Desmedt of
Ghent—answered to Gen. Van Merlerns
roll eel, but I hare been fortunate enough
to meet with several persons in Brussels,
still well and hearty, who have cheerfully
given me their reminiecieucee of that event-
ful elven, 1 inwe, however, failed to come
across a stogie combatant, although many
nwre alive ten years ago.
M. Louis Speak was born in 1804, and
found hint busily engaged in his pleasant
home on the Anomie des Arts, with sundry
plans and prolections for improving the corn-
unmicetione between the upper and lower
seetions of Beetssela. Ile is unwilling even
pow to give up hie work as an architect,
(i hi$ only enemy is the asthma. In 1815
he lived 'with his father in the Trurenberg7
and when
Tft4 STN WAS RISING
on the morning of June 10 he saw the Duke
of BrtittSIVick and his suite (preceded by two
of the Bleck Rimers with pietolis In their
hands) riding out to the battle of Quatro.
Bras. "Two of Pictures Scotch eoldiers,"
continue(' Mr, Speak, "were billeted on us,'
as well as an officer named Jackson, whose
servant Thomas used to let me ride on his
charger. I remember Mr. Jackson return-
ing here hurt and telling my lath IT in
bed French that it had "ranted bullets," as
he slum ell hint hie horse's nose pierced by a
ball, 1 believe that our guest's name was
Deed, and that he died only a very short
tiine ago. 1 heard the pus firing from the
old ramparts ; I have never forgotten the
endless processien ef watuided, and I saw
the brewers' drays, laden with beer, nal-
' en over the stones of the cheuseee toward
55 Meth*.
On the Sunday after the battle we drove
out to the field where Hougomont was still
looking, and the country people were filling
in the graves. I remember .51. Sivery,
professor of Englieli in the Athence, one of
ma old friends, telling me a story about
aterloo 'which you may care to hear. He
helped, wheu a youth, to num a Scoteln
man who was thought to be mortally
wounded, daring three months, but at last
recovered and was furnished by M. Sivery
with the mean$ of returning to his home,
whenee he emigtated to Ameriem Forty-
two years efter the professor was unexpect-
eilly summone'i to the Hotel Bellevue, and
there eaw a young man who pieced in his
handl a gohl twenty -dollar piece, handsome-
ly mounted in e. ease. He told him that it
war, the lira money his father, (who had be-
cOnie a wealthy titnber merchant and a Senile
tor for Massachusetts,) bad earned in Amer -
Ica And thathehad commissionedhisson while
making the tour of Europe, to seek out his
foriner benefactorat Brussels and place it in
his hands. Sivery was himself a soldier, and
wounded with a sabre at the battle of (Jrecs-
beeren. The two mon became inseparable
friend,
The memory of 'him°. Z. Ippersiel, nee
Lou iselfoulle, who wasborn with the century,
is as clear as that of a NVOIIMII of forty. Sit-
ting in her bright salon overlooking the Rue
Bernard and the tree -lined avenue, this dig -
Maid and still handsome lady talked to me
for an hour over her retniniscences, which
begin with the firing of the deafening salute
which greeted the arrival of the First Con-
sul and Mine. Josephine. She was nearly
ten when she mw the Emperor with Marie
Louise (wearing the Brussels lace shawl just
given her) sitting at his side and driving to
the gala performance at the Monnaie. Then
came the Waterloo days, when her father
and mother went to the Wellington fete at
the Concert Noble, but they were not pres-
ent at the Duchess of Richmond's ball, which
at the time was almost forgotten in the bus-
tle of the battle. The Foulles lived in the
Vieille(hear now the Rue du hfusse, (where
the English '(Jlub is atpresent situated,) and
as her father was one of the city notables,
Mlle. Louise was in the very centre of
all that was ening on.
Her uacle7 M. Alexandre Ponthieure de
Berlaere, was an officer of the Seventh Bel-
gian Battalion, commanded by Col. Vanden -
sande, and his niece saw him depart for the
war. Like everybody else, the Foulles went
to the ramparts
TO HEAR TILE 0A-NNO2
on the Sunday afternoon atter praying be
the church, and. as they crossedithe Place
Royale one of their French friends riding
past called out gayly, "Demain a Looken
She knew Mine. Wesener of Charleroi, and
has heard her tell over and over again the
story of her coming to Brussels on a common
cart under cover of the darkness of the eight
of the 15th to tell the Duke of 'Wellington,
who was at the Duchess of Riclutiond's ball,
that the French had crossed the frontier and
were advancing.
Mlle. Foulle visited the hospitals of the
Montaigne de la Cour,
and assisted in look-
ing after a dozen wounded soldiers who found
an asylum in her father's house. She saw
the Duke of Wellington frequently, and says
he carried an umbrella even when riding in
civilian attire. Louis le Desire used to strut
about the Parc with a gigantic cane, and the
Belgian ladies of the period admired kilted
Highlanders much more than the "Black
Brunswickers" or any other class of the de-
liverers. The blocus Continental ruined the
popularity of Napoleon, and caused endless
misery in Brussels eno grade of society was
exempt from the domiciliary visits of the
"rats" employed by the fiscal authorities of
Dyle, and. 1VIme. Foulle when she went
shopping with her daughter, paid a louis for
a pound of sugar and purchased velvet be -
emote it was cheaper than cotton.
Marie Sacre is the daughter of Napo-
leon's clockmaker. She lives with her
younger brother, (a robust septuagenarienn
who has carried off countless prizes for the
manufacture of mathematical instruments,
and is the inventor of thebalance used in
half the mints of Europe. A coffin clock
in honor of "the decisive victory" is duly
recorded, and then comes, without any
%dump of type orother distinction, the com-
forting information that "Hirsch, Corn
Doctor'152 New S'reet, formerly attached
in that quality to her Royal Highness Marie
Chrietie, Governess of the Low Countries, is
lieereied to follow his art of curing corns,
%units. and chilblains without the least
Brussels now -becomes one vast infirmary.
Fifteen hundred wounded Frenchmen are en-
camped on the Place de In Monnaie, edge the
ilinininations for the affaire decince de la
Bee -Alliance are burning brightly, and the
playgoers inside are roaring at the drolleries
of "- L'Avocat Patalin." The Church of the
Madeleine and the Sallie des Varietes are
alike frill of the sick and dying ; "Jones,
Lieutenant Colonel," (the only English
efficer except Wellington ever mentioned
in the Journal .1) asks for the addresses of
vernmded officers "to facilitate the researches
ni friends tent hospitals are erected out-
-side the Louvian and Namur gates; for an
entire week the peasants are either burying
the dead or bringing in the wounded and a
greet "benefit" is orginized at the Monnaie.
Then on June Si came the latest news
from Paris—a salute of 100 guns has been
fred to >celebrate the victory at Ligny 1 In
the succeeding week we have "Te Deums"
for the living and. solemn masses for the
dead. The wounded Prince of Orange is
ablene take carriage exercise ; the Comtesse
Vernet de Grez holds the plate "for the
wounded soldiers" at the door of Ste. Gud.ule;
Dudert, the dentist, has changed his resi-
dence ; a consignment of " excellent port
wine and Barclay's brown stout, bottled in
London," arrives; and exactly ten days
after Waterloo was won MM. Penley (an
ancestor possibly of " The Private Secre-
tary?) and Jones reopen the English season
at the Park Theatre with" The Clandestine
Marrirge," "Toni Thumb," and "The Jew
ana the Doctor*" Deaths were so frequent
during the months which followed Waterloo
that -all attempts at registration were aban-
aimed ; the supply of wood for coffins gave
out, and a bill still exists for sacking used
to bury the dead soldiers of the Scotch re-
giments encamPechn the fields now occupied
by the Luxembourg station. .
The Duke of Welliugton'e stay inBrussels
on Zone 19 only lasted a few hours, as he
started at once for Paris. On several sub-
ecquent occasions he revisited the scene of
lds crowning achievement, and in September,
1821, he acted as guide to George IV.
l'eu,ghien is so frequently mentioned in core
nection with the campaign of 1815 that I
determined to see something of the little
town, which has apparently slumbered made by M. Same ere toward the close of
the last century ticks sonorously in the par-
lor behind his son's repository in the Chaus-
see de Wavre, where I talked to Mlle.
Marie of the days when she used to accom-
Four Harnessed Long,
Loxpox Daily Xrcesi The
perfo mimeo Earl's Court yeeterday after-
noon enchided with a feature which created
both ensation and se.tisfectieu. A large and
critical audieuce hadbeeu invited to witnees
the first performance of Mr. Darling, his
lions and hoarhound, just arrived from a
highly successful engagement at the Nouveau
Cirque in Pali% Of the uustwelows pitch of
m
tuung to whieli he has brought his four
young lions the fame luta been noised abroad
during the last five months, and it is claim-
ed. that at leaet one. portion of the nerform-
atm hes never bean nitressed since the
spectacles in the Cannel of Rome.
In the center of the great space had been
erected a huge cep of bright red tottal
bra; and when Mr. Darling entered, care -
hilly fastening hhuself hi o partition drawn
aside from the annex, revealed four young
lions and a boarhound, who came tumbling
out in a most fralicsoine manner from the
cage within a cage. Like well-trained dogs
the none leaped. stoole, sat on thew
haunches and looked the picture of happy
rote. The master, who wore a bogged, nut-
itary-looking these, .geve a sigual with a
whip, and the lions pined paws, two and
two making themselves A bridge for the
hounds to' leap over. Other feats of this
chametor were performed and then one of
the lions mounted a tricycle and was pelted
round the ring first by the hoarhound and
then by one of its feline comrades. Two of
them by and by played a game of see -saw
an a pla,uk balanced across agate, one stand-
ing up, the other squat on his haunches,
with the hound in the middle to work the
business and see fair play. Trainer, lions
and dog next lay in abeap loving einbrace.
Finally a small Roman chariot was. brought
in, to which were harnessed the four lions.
Mr, Darling got up, took the reins, and
with the boarbound gamboling in front, the
strange team galloped, well in hand all the
while, round and round the circus, evidently
enjoying the scamper.
epeacefully through the past sevently-five
Seminars. The house where the Duke lodged
with the Mayor, Joseph Parrnentier, is
absolutely untouched; the quarters of the
'.1.'need. Hussars, the First Battalion of the pany her father to Laeken, where she often
Yee* Regiment, and the floliallt Fifty. saw the Emperor while the palace clocks
tieconcl, can still be pointed out The honest were being wound up and adjusted.
Enghienois While living in the Rue de in Collegiale,
LOVED THE ENGLISH near Ste. Gudule's, Mlle. Sacre looked down
epore than the Hanoverians a,nd the Prus- on the French troops marching out to the
thane, though there lives one very old man, Russian campaign --Napoleon signed the de -
the octogenarian Suisse of the church, who
claration of war in a room where one of M.
The Sabbath Chime,
Hark I my soul, it is tbe Lord.;
'Tis thy Saviour, hear his word;
Jesus speaks and speaks to thee—
Say, poor sinner, lovest thou me ?
I delivered the when bound,
And whenwouudedhealedtbywound;
Sought thee wandering, set thee right,
Turned thy darkness into light.
Cart a woman's tender care
Cease toward the child shebbare?
Yes, she may forgetful be,
Yet will I remember thee.
Mine is an unchanging love
Higher than the heights above,
Deeper than the depths beneath,
Free and faithful, strong as death.
Thou shalt see my glory soon,
When the work of grace is done;
Partner of my throne shalt be:
Say, poor sinner, lovest thou nie ?
Why the Wood Was Tougher.
"Well," said the old man to the boy at
the woodpile, "what are you sweating and
grunting so about? You can fly around like
a young stud horse when you're playing
with the boys, but the moment I mention
woodpile, you're clean gone at once, ain't
1;it, pop," said the boy, this wood is
awfully hard."
"Hard; why, in my day I used to saw up
a cord a clay and didn't make any fuss about
it either."
"But, pop, this wood is tougher than it
was in your day; for its fifty years older, you
know.",
Pop gave him a fifteen minutes' reprieve
or his smartness and advised him to look
ut for brain fever.
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Wolin P Edwares, Professor of Chemistry, Montreal, says;
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Steven': J. Na.Page,Professor of Chemistry, Laval Un.ver
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Inuattfactured Imroliu Labatt, Loudon, centaxie• told
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it is a tonic more energetic than the above Ale, for it is a
iittlo richer In alcohol, end den be compared advantage-
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Dr. W. Leigh Burton of Richmond has
been reeking some tests with the electric
heater. He found that with the use of nine
amperes of current coffee could be boiled and
meats roasted or fried as well as on a kitchen
range, and that after the liquid had been
brought to a boil the boiling could be con-
tinued indefinitely with the use of about
half the current first required. The difficul-
ty about cooking by electricity is that cur-
rent cannot be always easily and cheaply
obtained. It is believed, however, that if
one and the same company would undertake
the intrciduction of electric cooking stoves,
and also the furnishing of current, the enter-
prise wonld be successful. The durability
of the electric stove has established. At, the
St. Louis Exposition last year an electric
heater, on which water was kept boiling for
a month, required during that time nothing
but the splicing of the resistancewire en the
insid,e at an expenditure of but a few minutes
of time and a few cents in money. A recent
report of the Committee on Science and the
Arts of the Franklin Institute expresses the
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great advantages in almost every feeture
over all other known and practical means of
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RO W THE HOPPERS OAMEANIMENT.
The Plague That Svrarnted Rolm on Kan-
sas Fifteen. Years Astro.
Fifteen years ago this week a mighty
cloud of winged insects rose from stricken
Kansas. It darkened the sun and then
rolled away to the North and West toward
the Rocky Mountains. In less than one
hour the grasshopper plague had vanished
and hope took the place of despair in the
hearts of the people.
In the summer of 1674 Kansas suffered
from a severe drought. In August naked
stalks of weeds and dry blades of grass
rattled at every step of the passer by. Hot
winds came from the South and the West,
and one day on the wings of these warm
messengers came 8 shower of grasshoppers
or Rooky Mountain locusts. Big fellows
they were, an inch and half in length. They
hopped about for a few days'but finding
little to eat, disappeared almost as suddenly
as they had come. No damage was done to
the craps, for such as had weathered. the
trying drought were all menured. The old
SETTLERS SHOOK THEIR HEADS
and said: "These old hoppers will never
trouble us again, but there is certain disaster
ahead. We must look out for their many
times multiplied progeny. Next spring we
shall have grasshoppers in swarms, where
this year they have come in handfuls."
A careful examination of the ground
proved that these fears were well founded.
There were millions of tiny holes in which
eggs had been deposited. The layieg of
these eggs was, in fact, the sole 'mission of
this vanguard of the grasshoprer army.
There was, of course much apprehension of
coming hard times. 'But many forgot what
they had so much dreaded.
Here and there a wise man sold his farm
at much sacrifice and moved away. Others
sought to avert the danger by turning up
every square rod of laud -on. their farms to
the frosts of winter. In this way many eggs
were doubtless destroyed, but as the wise
old grasshoppers had selected places along
the roadsides where the ground was hardest
in which to deposit their eggs, the larger
portion of them were left undisturbed.Be-
sides, there was no concert aniong the farm-
ers, and no systematic efforts made to head
off the pest.
Spring came, and. with it came all theleusy
scenes connected with farm life. It was an
early season. April saw every crop in and
well under way, May opened in all her
beauty, ancl yet no sign of grasshoppers.
But the closing days of that beautiful May
brought the vindication of the prophets.
The little grasshoppers began to appear.
They could be counted at first, and they
were such tiny things. The next day they
had come
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no longer estimated 18 ninnbers, but the
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The land all at once seemed to have become
alive. The surface was moving in a mass,
now in this direction, now in that. Crops
disappeared as if an all powerful magician
with a single pass of his wand had spolter%
them out of existence, The fields were laid
as bare, as winter had left them, Gardens
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bore not a vestige of their present greenness.
The little insects were particularly fond of
onions and radishes. They ate down te the
smallest hair mots, leaving the beds curious-
ly perforated. Nothing green on or near
the ground escaped their ravages, except the
leaves of the osage orange. The hedges of
this shrub were left untouched.
Suddenly the grasshoppers increased ia
size. They had moulted. Then they seem-
ed to have a fondness for city life. They
travelled the streets in vast droves. As
vegetation disappeared, they became weak
and inactive and no longer tried to get out
of the way of pedestrians. They were crush-
ed in great numbers on the pavements.
As the insects became weakened from. lack
of food they seemed to be .greatly affected
by the heat of the sun, and ui order to avoid.
it they crowded along the shadows of build-
ings ou the south side of, a street. Here
they were piled upon one another against the
walls of the buildings to the height of a foot
or more. From this came the expression.
"Grasshoppers drifted a foot deep." The
stench from their crushed bodies was very
trying to the olfactories. Had it not been
for several dashing rains which cleaned the
streets from end to end, the consequences
might have been much mere serious.
LIKE Tun FRoQS OF EGYPT.
Grasshoppers 'were everywhem. They
came into the houses, and, 1118 .118 frogs m
plague -stricken Egypt, found their way into
the breacltrays. You break open a biscuit
at meal time, ancl behold, agrasshopper. You
turn down the bedcovers on retiring, end out
jump grasshoppers. Pump BIN:nits were
clogged withthe insects. It was not safe
to eat anything or to drink in the dark.
Attempts were made to harvest the
young grasshoppers. One device was adopt-
ed in Morocco during a locust plague
more that a century ago. It, was to di; a
long trench and drive the grasshoppers into
it. Boards were set up on edge diverging
from the ends of the treneh several rods.
As the insects came to the boards they con.
verged to the brink of the ditch, and their
next movement landed them at the bottom.
They had not yet got their wings, and were
not large enough to jump over the boards
of the trench. The loose earth was then •
packed down upon the struggling mass,
and millions of grasshoppers had been de-
stroyed. Did it make any perceptible dif-
ference in the numbers ? Not one whit.
It was a mystery how they lived and
grew after the first wholesale destruction of
crops, but they must have found something
to eat, for many of them lived to get away
from the land which they turned into a.
waste. With an energy such as is sure to
follove every great disaster, the farmers
Went to work and re -planted their fields.
Corn was the principal crop. Some of it
matured, but the greater part made only
fodder. Although there was no very wide-
spread destitution. as a result of the gram -
hopper visitation, much' financial distreihn-
was felt for many years.
clear, I wish you wouldn't sit up half the
here." ivr
ni ht,reading novels."
Wis
ina, I'm not reading. Mr. Lilliwhite is
Wise Mother (from head of stairs)—"My
Pretty Daughter (from the parlor)—" Why,
not a Kick, But .
)C.
Mother—"Oh, I beg his pardon. I
thought you had gone, Mr. Lilliwhite, and '
I was afraid my daughter was injuring her
eyes reading. It seems I was mistaken.
Probably the noise I took to be the front
door closing was only the hall clock strik-
ing ten."
When yet was ever found a mother
Would give her booby for anOther.
,
Stones and sticks are thrown only at fruit
-
bearing trees.
Standing Up For Her Friend.
Mr. Hankinson (at the party)—"What a
dainty eater Miss,Kajortes is 1
Miss Kersmith (bosom friend of Miss
Kajones)--"Indeed, IVIr. Hankinson, yeti d
the dear girl injustice. After her tea, an
angel cake at a banquet like this you hay
never seen her at home in front of a plate 0:
cold sausage."