The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-24

"his baggage checked for Troy" we
presume, where he would have a good
opportunity with Sir James Drumm md,
of the Besika bay fleet, to watch for the
opening of the B~osphorus. b.
lie was found also at Mulhein, u.
league from Cologne on the Rhine, He
was about four strong, but land he
couldn't have reused u German empire
quicker If he had seen the Pope. They
went for him, Bismarck, and the rest CT
'enl,-horse. foot, and Dragons. Mr.. j..
Boyd, an Englishman, was there, and
tells the whole story in the London
News. Three of the four were captured,
but one "took wing" "One," we are
veraciously informed, " was sent to Bis,
mark, the other to the minister of agri
culture, and the third rests iu the posses
sion of the burgomaster of Mulheim on
the Rhine" "Mein Gott, aber," chuckled
the rotund official as he set down his
mug of Bairish. "And you would havc
mine kartofel, Ell Sop And what
should the life of a Rhinish burgomaster
be with.the supply of kartoffel-soup and
kartotfel salat endangered,-two as vii
famous dishes as the most villainously
fed nation could devise from the smallest
and meanest potatoes that ever ranked
under the sun? The American sover-
eign potato bug wouldn't have lived
" on them things" even if they hadn't
bottled him 1--WE refer to Mr.. Boyd's
~account) Gin a large-mouthed glass jar,
twelve inches deep by nine diameter"
temporarily diverted. Mr.. Boyd might
h. va oIIaI frnnn hp1ltpn thn nnnn tiIn
draft of beer TOR his excellency, "the
burgomaster Mulheim am-Rhine."
Those great glass beakers, most as big
as sap.buckets, they come handy when
the dusty troopers ride in from the long
qua%drupedante putrem of the drill field
and the tavern window goes up and the
bar-maid pours out n of those vessels of
brew, to be drunk in the saddle,-it is
like a hot locomotive stopping under the
water-tank aud taking in the whizzing
through a tour-inch nozzle.
But to return to the bug who " took
wing" the farmer of that innocent two
acre patch had a suspicion of it. The
burgcmaster he was reused, too, his
blood was up, and the minister of agri-
culture, we presume, thought this was a
rare opportunity in his line to save che
country" They " went fol" that patch,
till it was a sight to see. They fired it
with petroleum and sawdust. and alter
ward drenched it with vitriol. Mean
time the local ~entomologists were making
models of the Larvae and of the full-grown
insect,-they couldn't make them fast
enough to supply the demand. There
was a high premium on the eggs also.
Burgomaster Steinopf translated into
Mayor Hardhead) had some promising
Larvae which were expected to hatch in
twelve or fifteen days" Mr.. Boyd glee-
fully promises to forward "a beetle or
two" to his London journal if they
hatch, and lest one or two should seem to
be a small stock for a great daily with
so, 900 circulation, he promises that ''she
is estimated to lay from seven hundred
to one thousand two hundred eggs"
What a chance for Gen. LIE Dac to throw
himself into the breach and seek a for
eign market for o surplus If The doesn't
believe it let him notice the following
g personal" from the Liverpool Morning
Will any one kindly lend a lady a live
Colorado beetle for a few days? Great
care shall be taken of it. Payment if de-
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