Waterspouts, sudden and extreme switches in the weather and a vicinity into more righteous paths, or, at least, having been treated sith only passing, seriousness, it seems that we now are to be visited by a far greater nuisance—in fact, a Biblical plague. Many whose knowledge on the subject does not go beyond the Biblical descriptions may think that possibly a plague of locusts may be fairly bad, but hardly up to the terrors set forth the old-fashioned descriptive writing. As a matter of fact, locusts can be quite as bad thing that has ever been them and they can, in a very shore while, eat vast areas absolutely bare, During recent weeks, several reports have been received of plagues of locusts in various parts of China, and Inst week, especially in the evenings, it was no uncommon thing to have three or four of them plunge ing madly about on one's Yerandah. It became more serious when, during the week-end, reports came in of the insect pests swarming in the neighbourhood of Woosung and doing considerable damage,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.