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...Clarksdale, Miss., last week, a fireman found a locust with a yellow W on its back. Old settlers said it meant war in seven years, told of similar locusts appearing before the last war, the Spanish American War, the Civil War, the Mexi...
Harvard Club of Kansas City. President LeRoy J. Snyder '08, 3706 Locust St., Kansas City. Vice-President: Harold R. Jones '26, 201 E. 37th St., Kansas City. Secretary: Jack P. Chesney '24, 111 West 10th St., Kansas City. Treasurer: Wilfred C. Wann '21, Commerce Trust Co., Kansas City...
Scientists agree that locusts do not start to migrate because they are hungry. Indeed each locust eats comparatively little on the migratory flight, consumes much of its own fat, arrives lean but wrought up to the highest amorous pitch. Authorities now propound the theory that the locust migrations are a sexual manifestation, as though Mother Nature employed this spur to spread her grasshopping children as far and wide as possible...
...Locusts are good to eat. St. Matthew says of John the Baptist: "His meat was locusts and wild honey." Shakespeare in Othello refers ecstatically to food "as luscious as locusts." Last week in the French and Spanish colonies in Africa, where the locust swarms were a nuisance but not a plague, hungry natives ate their fill, played games with the hoppers, bet on their hops. Tourists from the U. S. on Mediterranean cruises took a different view, grew vexed and grumpy as the hoppers hopped into their berths, baths, soups. In Greece and Rumania the sudden arrival of the locusts...