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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 77, 18 March 1876, Page 4

Ravages of the Grasshoppers.*— Early last spring, an old woman, near Milwaukie, dug up a panful ot dirt in which to plant flower seed. She put tbe pan under the stove, not once thinking of grasshopper eggs, and went out to see a neighbor. Upon her return, after an hour's absence, she found thousands of millions of grasshoppers, generated from the eggs by the heat, literally eating her out of house and home, Tbey first attacked the green shades of the windows, and then a green dustpan. A green Irish servant girl, asleep in one of the rooms, was the next victim, and not a vestige of her was left. The stove and the stovepipe were next eaten, and then tbe house was torn down bo that they could get at the chimney. Boards, joists, beams, clothing, nails, hinges, doorknobs, plate, tinware — everything, in fact, the house oontained was eaten up, and the last the good woman s*HW of.the place, two of the largest hoppers were sitting up on end playing " poker" fdr which should have the cellar.—American paper.