Year: 1875

LEAvENwoRTH Times: The situation


is altogether different from that pre-


sented by the visitation of last autumn


in Kansas and Nebraska. Then the


farmers were practically helpless to arrest


the scourge; now they have the matter


very much in their own hands. The in


sects can do but little harm until theil


wings develop; and while that growth il
going on, man of ordinary intelligence
and industry can get away with ninety
per cent. of them, and so discourage the
remainder that they will skip the country
at the earliest opportunity.


The Utica Herald tells the following
story of an old lady in Philadelphia,
Jefferson county, who acquired the habit
of using morphia After using it for re.
lief from the pains of tumor, no per-
suasion could induce her to give up the
poison. Her family united in decep-
tion, substituting carefully prepared po-
tato starch in mOrphia bottles. At first
she thought the supposed drug an in
ferior article, but her physician, who
was in the secret, assured her that it was
all right, and she was satisfied. She con-
tinued to use the article for fifteen years
and to the day of her death, and could
not do without it, never having learned
the deception. At one time when she
was i'll the physician gave her Dover's
powders, but she could not rest after
taking them until she took her starch
morphia.


THEODORE TILToN was caught in a
ludicrous fix the other day. He was sit.
ting in the front Office of one of hisc
sci, Mr.. Morris, about ten o'clock in the
morning, when Victoria Woodruff and
Colonel Blood entered the rear Office.
Don't let them see me; l don't want
them to know Pm here" said Mr.. TiltOn,
as he ran into little closet, closing the
door behind him. Woodruff pushed her
chair against the door and talked with
Mr.. Morris about being witness. The
interview lasted an hour, and all the
while Tilton was half smothered. At
eleven o'clock the lawyers went to the
court room. Mrs. Woodruff stayed and
did not seem disposed to move. She was
likely to be called as q witness in the
afternoon, and had made up her mind to
remain in the Office. At last Tilton es-
capped through window, and arrived i'm
the courtroom late and breathless.


HERE is a question for young arithme-
ticians, and others who like to crack an
arithmetical nut now and then, to try
their wits upon: Two Arabs sat down to
dinner, and were accosted by stranger,
who requested to join their party, say
ing, that he could not get provisions to
buy in that part of the country. II they
would admit him to eat only an equal
share with themselves, he would willingly
pay them the WHOLE" The frugal meal
consisted of eight small loaves of bread,
five of which belonged to one of the
Arabs, and three to the other. The
stranger, having eaten a third part of the
eight loaves, arose and laid before them
eight pieces of money, saying: "My
friends, there is what 1 promised you;
divide it among you according to your
rights" A little dispute arose respect
ing a division of the money; but, refer
ence being made to the Cadi, he adjudged
seven pieces to the owner of the five
loaves, and only one piece to him who
had owned the three loaves. Yet the
Cadi decided Justly.