Richard Harding Davis has written a story called "Soldiers of Fortune,"
which gives a very excellent account of one of these South American
revolutions.

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The Massachusetts Assembly has made its annual appropriation for the
destruction of the Gipsy moth.

This is a moth whose larvæ (as the caterpillars are called) do so much
damage to foliage that the State has spent large sums of money in an
attempt to destroy the troublesome pest. The matter has now been brought
to the attention of Congress, and in the last Agricultural Appropriation
Bill a special provision was made for a careful investigation of the
matter.

The caterpillar of the Gipsy moth strips the trees of their leaves as
completely as if they had been swept by fire. Almost every variety of
tree, as well as of farm or garden crop, is attacked by these worms, and
the farmers in Eastern Massachusetts are terror-stricken over the army of
them which yearly attacks their crops.

The history of the introduction of the Gipsy moth into this country is a
somewhat curious one.

The moth is not a native of this country, but of Germany and Austria,
where vast sums of money have also been spent by the governments in a vain
endeavor to get rid of it.

In 1869 a French naturalist came over to this country and settled in