r heard nor By personal observation I found that over an area of moved at arate of about 15 miles an hour, and, when read of before. 16 square miles they were as numerous, a column of they alighted, changed the green of thesurface to brown, The streams coming down from the hills were frozen… … of new elements or pro- and the insects were swept perties of the air. The first out of houses like snow. call npon the fund was made some two years ago, when There is hardly a Western or, for that matter, an East- national calamities, and were not the accounts of them $10.000 was divided between…
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