Forty bodies were taken to the morgue
Friday, and the number is extraordi
nary. Thirteen were from Bellevue
hospital, eleven from the institutions on
Ward's and Blackwell's islands, six from
the Foundling hospital, and the others
from police stations and persons too
poor to bury their dead. New York
Times.
The accounts of a pill maker who has
just died in England show that he has
been Fpmdiug $200,000 a year for adver
tising. - His uirs. however, are finding
no iRrticular fault with thin extrava-
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Grasshopper War la Algeria.
Immense swarms of grasshoppers have
invaded parts of the country of Algeria
and are spoiling lots of things. Two
thousand soldiers, aided by 13,000 Arabs,
have been employed to fight the pest.
The roadways present the appearance of
a battlefield, and extraordinary efforts
are being made to rid the surrounding
country of this insect enemy.
This is not the first time that this
plague has devastated Algeria. In 1845
the harvests of almost the entire country
were destroyed by grasshoppers. From
174? to 1749 these insects desolated Al
geria, extending their ravages even to
parts of Europe.
Millions on millions of the dead bodies
af these insects are covering at present
the great roadway leading from Mascara
to Mostaganim, and filling the springs
and rivers. The task of killing these
ansBoos of grasshoppers is no small one.
