The Courier-Journal has received from “An Old Fogy,” at Huntsville, Ky., a package with this note :

Inclosed please find two locust wings with a W or an M on them. I am at a loss to know whether it means Wilson’s Wrangle or McKinley’s Millennial. Please give your interpretation.

    The letter is a W and marks the wings of that species of the locust known as the whangdoodle, the M, so far as is known, having no other significance than as an initial of the insect’s name.
    The whangdoodle is a very peculiar insect. It is the most erratic member of the Locusts Migratoria family. It has no regular periods of visitation, like its seven, thirteen and seventeen-year kin. Its coming, however, is not thought to be in independence of all law. On the contrary the appearance of the whangdoodle has long been considered as accompanying certain conditions of the human race. This theory is so well established by an extended series of observations that it is now hardly thought worth while to dispute that the whangdoodle is always an accompaniment of the waves of folly that occasionally sweep over the country. For many years there has been no passing epidemic of popular lunacy which has not brought with it the orthoperous whangdoodle. Indeed there is little excuse to-day for ignorance of the fact that the whangdoodle always comes in numbers proportioned to the greatness of the need for the fool-killer.
    We are not in the least surprised to learn that the whangdoodle has come. This ought to be a great year for whangdoodles. It would be hard to recall a time when there was more need for the fool-killer. The people seem to have gone daft. There is a tidal wave of folly over the entire country. Everywhere fools, who are ordinarily sensible men, are crying out against the hard times which were brought about by Republican legislation, and yet are falling over each other to vote the Republican ticket simply because the administration in power is labeled Democratic.
    Certainly the whangdoodle ought to swarm upon us this year, and he ought to wax exceedingly fat upon his food of human folly.—Courier-Journal.

From— The Evening Bulletin. (Maysville, Ky.), 13 June 1894. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.