Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-06-08
here regarding this action of Judge Morril's,,
i and the result tomorrow morning is aDxlousy
II IL for

here regarding this action OF Judge MOrrlll {,
and the result tomorrow morning ls aDXlously
looked for.
GRASsHoPPERs AS FOOD. The New York
Journal of Commerce says:
"Some of the grasshopper stricken citizens! of
Warrensburg. Mo have adopted the sage mill
tsry maxim about living on the enemy. They
are eating the sshoppers-stowed, boiled,
fried and baked. Such WAS the peculiar fare
set before five or six epeuFes -ef-MsrEensbnrg
the Other day, and they pronounced it exec lent
1t is the first step that costs, as everybody
knows and the little company slipped the grass
hopper soup with some misgivings as to the
constsncy of their stonlachs. That ordeal passed
in safety, they proceeded to discuss grasshopper
served in batter cakes, plain fried, and baked,
with money as dessert What, if any, wines
or liquors were used to wash down these strange
messes, the account before us does not say. 1t
would also be worth while to know whether the
eaters had prepared themselves for the trial By
course of starvation. We only learn that the
grasshopper banquet was really good And,
after all, as one may say, why should 1t not be
else to eat7 Wild Arabs and Africans erjoy
nothing better than full meal of locusts
which are only another and ugier looking va
riety of insects, living the same food as grass
hoppers. The true son of the wilderness re-
CARDS these repuisive creatures rs his best WIND
was living in Nebraska, Kansas or Missouri, he
would let the crops go into the grasshopper and
then put the grssshopper into himself and be
thank ful for the blessing. The daring men OF
Warrensburg have only done what millions OF
Orientals have been doing since tee locust hrst
few. That item on the bill Of farc-'grasshop-
pers baked with honey-only recalls John the
Baptist's favorite visnds, though Scripture does
not tell us whether he took them baked together
or separate and plain 1t is one thing to prove
by experiment that q food against which man,
kind is strongly prejudiced is pslatab!e and
mankind to eat it, Those who have partsken or
horse, cooked after all the methods of the French
cuisine say it is first rate every way. But the
world would not believe them. Hippophagy is
now an almost extinct reform. And SO we DO
not expect that the testimony from Warrens-
burg will place the grasshopper rs standard
dish on the tables OF tho West. 1t will only
show-and that is worth knowng-that people
noed not stsrve while graSshoppers are around
CLIMATIC ATTRACTIONS The climate of
San Francisco in wioter is said by the Bulletin
of that city 10 be ''the best meau climate OF the
State probably the best in the world. Our
wiuter,' says the Bulletin, lis in fact the
spring of The East and of Europe. The fields
are green and aromatic The flowers are
blooming and the sky Is bright and genial.
The latter part of the summer corresponds
with the wiDter 10 other lands IN this that
vegetation ceases, but from causes the very
opposite. 10 the East nature reposes for
three or four mouths under mantle OF
snow. Here vegetation is checked not so
much by the frost as the blazing sun in a
cloudless blue sky. Tic brown parched hl-sides
of California correspondent to the white expanse
of Eastern landscapes 1t thus follows that
while the climate of San Francisco in winter
is the best 10 which the invalid or valetudl-
naran can hasten, the climate ID summer at
tracts the healthy and vigorous. ln this sum-
mer we have another OF those sharp contrasts
which our city presents. In all other lands
people leave the seaports tor the Interior 10 OBJ
tain lower temperature. But San Francisco
beckous the over-heated residents of that place
by her heallh-glving sea breczes. The only
difficulty seems to be that the trade winds, which
last during the greater part OF the summer,
whirl along in their boisterous moments so
much dust. These winds are said to be soft aud
saline when they blow from one point-south OF
west; and little harsher when they blow uorth
OF west by point or so, but are described as
bracng aud iuvigorating to the last degree
The National Sportsmens Association will
meet at Cleveland, Ohio to. day. The objects
are to devise better protection OF fish aud wild
game.
The paint shop of the New York, New Ha-
ven and Hartford Railroad, at Hartford, Conn,
was burned last night, together with several
freight and passenger cars
On Saturday last the steamers that sailed
from New York for European ports carried
6G4 cabiu aud l ,32l steeragc passengers.
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