Origin Of Western Grasshoppers

I have been muck interested in the papers of Mr. Dodge and others, on this fcubject. The ongin of these pests ia still obscure, and happily it is likely to reoiain so, as it is doubtful whether we shall be visited by thcm again for anumber of years. In convemng with a resident of Montana, recently, he said that several yenrs ago he excavated the side of a mountain for a stamp mili, which was placed on the solid ground, the looso ! earth lying in front of it. The ensuiug spring, the bank of loose earth had a stiange appearancij. Ou examination it was found filled with grashopper's eggs, then being hatched out, of course, they left when fully flcdged, and nothing more was seen of them in tliat locality. As no sign of grasshoppers conld be previously seen, whence could these eggs have come ? I only teil the story as it was told to me. If true, it is, as Dundreary says, one of those mysteries that no fellow can flnd out.-" T. of lowa," in Prairie Farmer. Wiiliam Platt, aged 60, recently walked f rom New York city to Newtown, 70 miles, in one day.