Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-06

seem to possess very few tourists, for there were only nine volumes of travels and voy- ages. Only two works on politics figure in the list, and both of these were published in the Madras Presidency. Only three out of 199 novels were due to European author ship. Bengal alone was responsible for no less than 71 native romances, Bombay for 43, Madras for 21 and the Punjaub for s. Assam, being more proftably engaged in tea cultiva- tion, left the Muses nearly alone, the total emissions from her press numbering only r. But the central provinces were even more absorbed in producing cotton, they found time to write only single work during the year. The Punjaub, ,on the contrary in spite of it's industrial activity, had leisure for the production of S15 works, including 183 poems and 245 books on religion.
 Seth Green says that the so-called shad which have been dying in large numbers in Lake Ontario belong to another branch of the same family of fishes and perish from starvation. They travel in such large schools that there is not food enough for all in any one locality, and the consequence is that
 
 pick up all the food, while those in the rear starve to death. He has picked up and ex- amined hundreds of them. They are but little more than skin and bones, and have nothing whatever in their stomachs. The same fish have also appeared in Cayuga Lake, but are not as large as those of Lake Ontario. During a recent visit to the former a1ra ha oh god Ho al lowed in their wakr, as he had done before in Lake Ontario, and picked up several not yet dead, and found they were dying from starvation. They have made their appear ance in both Seneca and Cayuga Lakes and 1t Is mystery how they get there. In order to get to these lakes from Lake Ontario that is, if they go that way-there are sew eraI dams which it would seem impossible for them to get over. The only feasible ex- planation is that there must be an under ground channel leading from Lake Ontario to these waters through which they can pass.
 American wheat growers and speculators will not be bowed down with grief over the prospect that the wheat crop of Russia will not be large one. Professor Lindemann, who was invited to investigate the plague of locusts in Russia, reports that the "Cecydo- mia destructor" infests large part of Central Russia in the government of Toula, the dis tricts of Bogoroditsk, D' Ephremof and No- vossil; in the government of Orel, the dis tricts of Mitsenk, Elets and NovoarchangeI; in the government of Riazan, tie district of Ranenburg; in the government of Tambof, the districts of Kozlof Tambof and Gus man in the government of Voronez, the dis tricts of Voronez, Bobrof and Zemlansk; in the government of Renza, the district of Tchembar. ''It is, therefore, proved fact" " continues the Professor ''that six govern ments in Central Russia, justly considered to be the granary for the whole empire, are thus infested with this terrible enemy. I hear from all sides that one-half and even three quarters of the harvest is destroyed by this devastating insect. The samples brought to me confirm this fact. We must not lightly regard the propagation of these creatures. The evil calls for the most energetic and i'm mediate measures. The only practical means in my opinion is the burning of the stubble- field after the harvest, but not later than the first days in August. Immediately after the burning the fields must. be titled a second time. Another very effective measure is to delay the fall sowing, that the sprouts may not appear until the end of August" Other pests were busy with other cereals, and it does not seem likely that Russia will play her usual part this year in the food supply of western Europe.