The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-07-10
FOREIGN NOTES.

TIE university of Copenhagen has
just been celebrating It's fourth centen-
arv.
The Journal de st. Petersburg has the
following extract from the Caucasus on
| the plague of locusts in the province
from which the latter journal takes its
name. The whole province is in terror.
Old men remembered no such visitation.
The possible consequences of the locust
invasion where at FIST too lightly
regarded. When, on April 9Th, cloud
of these insects was observed in Elisabe-
topol no one dreamed of the danger that
was near. The locusts were multiplied
day alter day, have invaded town and
surburb, have pitilessly destroyed v me-
yards and fruit gardens. The streets
and the courts have soon been filed with
them, rendering all locomotion impos.
sible. People were literally stopped on
the way by clouds of insects. On April
21st the shopkeepers put up their shut
tiers to consider what was to be done.
But superstitious terror prevents the
people from killing the insects, and the
police have had to issue an order requir
ing each inhabitant to destroy two
pounds of locusts. Even the water
courses are choked by the insects, which
is a new calamity for the population,
which thus finds itself deprived of drink
able water" -.. ....l .-....
The gambling hell at Monaco returns
within trifle of 100000 sterling to its
proprietor. This princely revenue will
be short this year to the income of q
Grand Duke Of Pumbernickel. One of
the most remarkable in tances of lucky
gambling ever recorded has Just set the
crowd at the little free city crying the
CRY of Dominic Sampson. Early in the
spring there was rumor of disaster inn
pending over an ancient British baronet,
which has given heroes, poets and
lawyers to the country. The heir had
inherited 81, 200, 900 of debts, added to
round sum he had raised from the Israe.
lites at accommodation bank interest.
When the Insurers found their security q
shadow, and the mortgages discovered
that the successor to the title and estates
had begun by dipping the property
further, it was resolved to force pay
meat. A noble duke, whose name was
much mentioned in connection with the
Glasgow bank, generously lent as much
as deferred the evil day. But the smash
would have come ali the same this very
month but for the wonderful stroke of
luck which befel the spendthrift pat.
ricisn at Monaco. He broke the bank
three nights running. His last coup
made a round 100000 in addition to
the $400,000 captured by him the two
nights previous He had the wit to cut
with his win oings, and is now at home
negotiating with his creditors.
London Times: Within the present
generation, and mainly during the pres.
emit decade, nearly all the great geo.
graphical problems left us by our adven.
turous ancestors have been solved all
the great lines of exploration have been
taken up and worked out with success
that leaves to the future only the details
to fill in. The northwest passage was
completed more than quarter OF GEN.
tury ago; the Australian interior has
been crossed and recrossed within the
past few years several bright lines now
break in the once mystelious darkness |
of the "DarS Continent" the sources
of the Nile have been traced and the
course of the Congo sll hut laid down;
the Russians have filled up meny i'm
portant blanks in Genital Asia there is !
now no mystery to SPEAK of for geo.
graphers on the North American CONT
nent and none of any magnitude on the
south even the great outlines OF the |,
ocean bed have been chsrted, and now |
at last, after struggle begun more than
three hundred years since, the northeast |
passage hss been made with an ease that
makes one wonder why it was not done
long ago. A matter-o fact Swedish
professor has shown that with suitable
ship at the proper season this long
passage to I" Far Csthay" is a
question of only few weeks. OF Arctic
teats there now remains only the dash
at the pole" and that the north pole
will be reached sooner or later there can
be no donbt.' ..r. ..