Yet there are calamities beyond the control of enlightened man. Two weeks ago in the country of IF hail-stones a" Jarge as hen's eggs fell in fatal torrents, In one half-hour several children were Dattered to death, and the ripe crops com plotely destroyed over an aren of several Adjoining the sume district came invasion of locusts which completely relieved the farmers of the privilege of reaping their ripening harvest. In this county drought has proved no les a scourge, For six months, January-Jur rain has fallen on only eight days. "During the sumo period, 1890, rain fell at Greenwich on 83 days—n comparison shows the vist difference. The showers tne were very gentle, light, totally insufficient.
Wolves are again on the prowl. Last year they carried off men, women, children wany us 14 in 10 days in this immedi neighbourhood. Two days ago at noon a wolf carried off a girl of nine years from the doorstep while the parents were at worship. Lvst night another marched boldly through a village, into a house. He pounced upon a lad of eleven who was recovered, minus his chock, from the the clutches of the brute. I have seen an expedition organised with the most fearless daring. A man entered a den with only a dagger in his hand, The mother welf, to protect her cubs, sprang right at his face. The prior fellow was fortunately rescued but severely wounded, Unfortunately the old " blunderbusses" owned by the people are about as dangerous to the bearer as to tha wolves. Rewi is have been offered and occasionally a felled; but there means of exterminating their fertile hordes.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.