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Whole Nations Who'emduy Devonr Creep- lng Insects. The insect-eaters here referred to are not occasional persons of depraved tastes, but whole nations, who consume insects on so large a scale as to raise them to a regu ar article of trade. Locusts are an article ‘of food in parts of Africa, Arabia, and Persia, of such importance that the price of provisions is influenced by the quantity of the dried insects in hand. The Tuaregs of Africa. esteem them highly, and a. single indlvdual will eat as many as three hundred of themâ€"raw, roasted, or stewedâ€"at a meal. Cakes of crushed locusts are a delicacy. Boiled locusts are appreciated in Burmah. Te.mits and ants are the next most important food in- sects. The egg-laden bodies of the fe- males of Altha cephalotes are industrious- ly collected by Indians in South America, and tho taste of their roasted and salted bodies has been appreciated even by Eu- ropeans. The African negroes can hard- ly get enough of termites, which are eaten fried at the Cape, and in other regions are made into cakes. Roasted termites taste somewhat like marrow or sweet cream. The seventeen-year locust has been eaten in North America, and is said to have been used in soapmaking. Cakes are made in Mexico with the eggs of two kinds of water-bugs. A cake made in Fezzan of insect eggs is described as hav- ing the taste of caviar The Romans were fond of larsz whit; they called cos- sus. A favorite dish is prepared in Ja- maica from the larvae of a beetle that lives in the trunks of palm-trees. Another wood insect is preserved in sugar by the Chinese and Malays, anda liquor is made with the addition of some water from a beetle in Mexico. Caterpillars are eaten in Australia and at the Cape at the risk of woeful pains in the stomach, and even spiders, abhor-red by every other race, are eaten by the Hottentots and New Caledonians, with the same liability. Worms are accepted as food by very few people. A kind of grub is collected and eaten in Brazil, a nereid worm in Samoa, and a reed-worm by the Amoss of Japan. The Austrailans around Port Adelaide are said to have lived exclusively on worms and molusks, while they abhorred beef. Some persons in Naples eat a tape- worm, a parasite of the carp, fried in oil, and call it by the name of macaroni piatti. Sea-urchins form a quite important item in the cookery of some lands, and are popular in some of the Mediterranean districts of Europe. Vestiges of them are found among the remains of feasts of Pompeii, and 100,000 dozen of them are still sold in the markets of Marseilles every year. They, with holothurias, form important items in the food con- sumption of China and J span, where the people rarely see our butcher‘s meat. The holothuria fishery is carried on ex- tensively in Japan from April to August. The “catch” is consumed fresh on the spot, or is prepared and packed for the Chinese market. Even the Medusa, which no other animal, so far as 'known, will eat, is sought for by the Chinese, and used as a dried and salted meat. “Scuppered” in Camp. “Scuppered” is a. word whichl had never met with till I came to Suakim, and its hor- rible significance is a new experience to British troops. To be “scuppered” means here being hacked to pieces in your tent while asleep. How the Haden- dowas do it nobody but they themselves can tell. Our sentries cannot see these savages. Once past our pickets the re- doubts cannot fire on them. On the sand their feet fall without a sound. The nights are of extraordinary darkness, more over, and they are experts in all the treacheries of warfare. Silent as shadows, they are terribly swift in massacre, and the ground they travel over is murderous beyond description. Ravines so deep that horsemen cannot pass unseen along them ambuscade our whole front, while streaks and patches of thick brush superfluoust offer continuous lines of covert in every direction to a foe that needs no such helps to concealment. Crawling along on all fours, they traverse the space between them and their ViO'Jlml with all the patient caution of wild beasts stalking prey. They reach the doomed tent. For the sake of the sea-breeze the doorway is open, and the next in otant the murderer is standing by the sleeping soldier’s side. He feels a band pass over his body and he starts. A cry is rising to his lips. It is strangled in his throat by a groan of pain, and befo.e the gallant fellow can even warn his comrades the fierce spear is driven home through his body, the heavy two-handled sword has fallen across him. But the tent is alarmed. There is no time to lose! Slashing this way and that the murderers stab and hack with the fury of fiends, and then as the camp starts to its feet in clamour they are off. Not a sound betrays their passing. There is no trace cf blood to tell of retribution. They are goneâ€"back into the villanous gullies, back into the scattered brush ; and next we can imagine them sitting to refresh themselves outside our line of re- doubtsâ€"to listen gleefully to the storm they have raisedâ€"the bugles telling the old tale of murder completed and the murderers gone, the aimless volleys of rifles,‘the din of voices, the impotent utter- ances of our indignant guns roaring for an impossible vengeance. N ow, should such a tragedy as this have been possible? The authorities, when I venture to say it should not be possible, have but one reply â€"that absolute security from such accom- piished assassins cannot be expected. We have had daily warning of the desperate courage and craft of these spearmen, and yet we have] nightly shown that. we will not learn by experience. If no other means can be devised, the simple process of making half a. regiment stand to its arms, rifles unloaded1 inside of the .tenb, Iirum, “no: Huluuuvu "0...... v. nu. “a. to gaurd the other haif for the six dualge;I ous hours of night (taking three hours 31- ternately) would make massacre impos- INSECT-thine MEN. Ame.- m nible and retribution certain 1 Or is not the example of the Indian contingent worth imitation 7 They refused to lie in their tents and be stabbed and hacked about, so they have traced a. ditch along their front, and when the Hndendowas came up last night to neeaeinate them they found the whole line manned, and got well peppered for their pains. leaving, at any rate, one corpse in acknowledg- ment of the reception they got. In is an easy matter to give every de- tail of the present condition of the Mur- ghab valley, but the d1ificnlty is to real- ize What this beautiful vale was in its days of prosperity, when it was inhabited and all under cultivation. Now it; would be like indginz of a beautiful landscape days of prosperity, when it was inhabited and all under cultivation. Now it would be like judging of a beautiful landscape after a tornado has swept over it. De- vastation has here accomplished a com- plete ruin. What it was we can only imagine from what we know of places in the same region which are similarly sitâ€" uated. Herat has what may be called the 9' tot river i the Murghab, that i_ the heri Rud. Both streams hawotheir birth ‘ in the same mountain chain, and bfith flow on till they are lost in the desert of Turkestan. The valley of floral: has suf- fered from invasions and wars, but these passed ofl‘, and it has always been able to resume something of its old prosperity ; at least it never has relapsed into the desert state. The fertility and the rich- ness of this valley have been the theme of historians for many centuries. Even down to our day it has been described as fruitful and beautiful. Oonolly, who saw it in 1831, says, “ I can imagine nothing like it except perhaps in Italy." A band, or dam, on the Hon Rud, sends its waters all over the valley, and by this means the fields produce abundantly; the gardens are watered, so that all kinds of vegetables and fruit are plentiful. Melons, peaches plums, apples, apricots, and the grape in many varieties, are all grown in great profusion. Colonel Malleson, in his late work on Herat, adds, in large letters, the descriptive words regarding it on the title- page, “ The Granary and Garden of Con- tral Asia." With such productiva wealth Horst has been celebrated for its public ‘ buildings, It had palaces and royal gar- dens or pleasure grounds, splendid mos- ques, colleges, and its tombs were master- pieces of art. Science and art were cul- tivated, so that the city was celebrated ; so much so that an Eastern saying has the words, “ Khorassan is the oyster shell of the world, and Herat is its pearl.” Herat and the Mnrghab Valley. All these results which have made He- rat so famous are simply owing to the ex- istence of an ample valley, and a river with a plentiful supply of water flowing through it. These are exactly the con- ditions we find existing in the Murghab Valley. It is a long and a wide vale, in which there runs a stream of clear water in sufliclent quantity to fertilise its whole length. It 13 fifty or sixty yards wide, and runs deep. in the time of Fitdusi it was known as the Shahd Rad, or “the Honey River,” and it. is still known by and runs deep. 1n the time of Firdusi it was known as the Shahd Bad, or “the Honey River,” and it is still known by this name. It it much larger than the Heri Rud, so far as we saw that stream; but I believe that much of its water is ab- sorbed by the cultivation at Beret. There i every reason to believe that the Mur- ghab Valley had at one time all the pro- ductive results which have been mention- ed in connection with the Herat Valley. Sir Henry Rawlinson quotes the Bond- ekesh, which in noticing this district he says has the following :â€"“In the days of Yim myriad towns and cities were erect- ed on its pleasant and prosperous terri- tory." Musical Antipathy on the Part of a Cat. A splendid tabby Tom belonged to my late tather-in-law. and wasa great pet of his daughter (my wife) when living at home before her marriage. Tab was very fond of his mistress, always selecting her lap, when possible. for his moments of re- pose. He was so well trained and intel- ligent that he would follow her about the garden or the adjoinin fields, and answer to his name exactly 1 ke a dog ; and yet, with all his affection, he would not allow my wife to sing or even hum. When she sang he would jump up lash his tail-an unmistakable slgn of angerâ€"utter short, sharp “mews” whilsh every movement of the animal betrayed extreme uneasiness and annoyance. If the singing did not cease the mews would be extended in'o a. sort: of howl or cry, and he would stanc on his hind legs and pat the lady's knee with his paw, as a gentle remonstrance. Sometimes he would fling himself down at full length and scratch with his claws at the carpet in the oddest: manner. These performances were most amusing. But one day, I am sorry to say, he loan both his patience and his temper, and be~ haved in a manner highly discredltable to a well-bred and intelligent feline. He was asleep in my wife’s lap when she be- gan, quite thoughtlessly, to hum a. mel- ody. In a moment Tab was sitting erect in her lap, glaring fiercely up into her face and uttering little angry cries. Rather amused than otherwise, my wife continued her humming, when Tab sud- denly sprang up and stuck his claws into both sides of her face, below each ear. Seizing his paws and throwing him sharp- ly down, my wife ceased the music, when â€"all being silentâ€"Tab looked up, eviâ€" dently rather surprised at his rough treat- ment, whisked his tail about, and then, seeming to thlnk better of it, instantly jumped into her lap again and commenced purring a loud song ofâ€"let us hopeâ€"re- pentance for his bad conduct. Over 200 new doctors were turned out; of a New York medical college recently. This looks hongh their institutions were working on full time to keep pace with the establishment of skating-rinks. “ Brace up I” whispered the hangman to a poor fellow whose hempen cravat he was skillfully adjusting. “Yes, it's easy for you to say that,” was the grim reply, “because you are a. suspender." well enough when he is dancing to hi. piper , but he would come to woful grief if he were himself the director of the foreign policy of the empire. The mili- tary despotism under which Germany has groened for the last twenty years can not possibly last much longer, and it would not have lasted till the present day but for the veneration which is universally felt for the aged kaiser. There will be a crash in Russia. be’ore long. and, as in 1848. the infection will at once epread to Germany, which has long been ripening er revolution.â€" [London Truth. He Spells It Bud. Prince Bismarck, like Frederick, has converted his ministers and ambassadors into more clerks, and once he is gone the whole machinery of his government: and policy will fall into other and hopeless confusion. The crown princa is a mere “dad,” and Prince Herbert Bismarck is simply the puppet: of hisaire. who ge‘n on well enough when he is dancing to his piper , but he would come to woful grief if he were himself the director of the foreign policy of the empire. The mill- tary despotism under which Germany has groaned for the last twenty years can not A Prize in the Lottery of life which is usually unsppreciated un‘ til it is lost. perhaps never to return, is banish. What a priceless boon it. is, and how we ought to cherish it, that life may not be a worthless blank to us, Many of the diseases that. flesh is heir to, and which make life burdensome, such as consumption (sorofula of the lungs) Ind anther scrofulous and blood diseases, find complete cure in Dr. R. V. 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