The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1865-10-25
"Brick" Pomeroy ON Mosqui-

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d "Brick" Pomeroy, Of the La Crosse
(Wis) Democrat, gives the following as
his experience in getting mosquitoes in
toxicated. Josh Billings can't beatitc:
sraH MOSQUITOES ON a BENDER. s1R
Night before last, in order to sleep, we
placed piece Of raw beet steak, on o,
plate At The head Of our bed. In the,
morning 1t was by the mosquitoes sucked
as dry Of blood as an old sponge, and our
skin saved at least two thousand perform
tions. All about the room in the morn
ing we're mosquitoes plethoric with. blood,
loaded till they could not fly. We killed
a few, but the job was to sanguiuary, so
we left them to their feast. &
Last night to get even with the serena
ding devils, we stepped half a pound Of
fresh beef steak in some old rye whisky,
and left it on plate near the bed. Moth
ing like being Hospitality inclined. In
ten minutes after the light was extin-
guished swarm Of these black biting
bill.posters made an advance movement.
One Of them caressed US sweetly on the
nose-he sent his bill in--there was q
slap-a diluted damn-a dead mosquito !!
Soon we heard tremendous buzzins
about the whisky soaked beef. The en-
tire mosquito family came singing in, and
such an opera-good Lord deliver us -
But they did not disturb US with bites
we fell asleep to be awakened in ten min.
utes by the worst mosquito concert ever
editor, mortal, devil, angel divine, Dutch
man or any other man listened to. We
raised light, and the greatest show Of
the season was there to be seen. Every
mosquito was drunk as blind fiddler, and
such an uproarious night as the long
billed whelps had never was seen before
this side of-sELAH The worst antics !!
Some were playing circus on the plate.--
One big fellow with q belly like Falstaff,
full Of blood, and whisky, was dancing
juba on the Bible, while fat friend Of
his tribe lay on her back beating the dev-
| iPs dream on an invincible tamborine
with one Ley. Two more were wrestling
on the foot board of the bed, each with
bis bill stuck fast in tiu.ber. Another
was tying the legs Of our pants into a bow
| knot to tie about the neck Of Anna Dick
iuson, which hangs against the wash
stand, while another red-stomached Gus
toner was trying to stand on his head il
the wash bowl.
All over the room were drunken mos
quitos! One long billed, gaunt re 'resen
tatiye was trying to ram the mucilagt
bottle full Of newspaper clippings. Anoth
er chap was drilling hole through re
volver handle, and singing Little old
Liza Jane," while another was limpine
across the window sill in search of fresh
air, to the agonizing tune Of tramp
tramp-tramp One little ram Of !
skcet was trying to jam the cock out o.
Ben Buffers eye with tooth brush, al
his picture hung 10 the room beside tha
of Kidd and few other thieves. Anoth
er drunken statesman Of the mosquit,
family, reminding US Of z. Chandler, wa
talking Russian to lot Of drunken com
panions as they lay in a heap on a plate
while another sat on the handle Of ou
bowie kuife, doubled up with the craml
in the stomach, and trying to unite hi
tail with his bill, which seemed like Lin
coins back bone when Anna Dickinson
said it needed stiffening. He was sicl
looking skeeter, and died in three min
utes after we saw him, her, or it, as th'
case nav be. Two others took bath il
.ke iukstand. Another Skeetcr, with
bill like the devils narrative, was tryinl
to wind our watch with pen wiper, Will
another had Just died as he was sittini
on a rim Of dish in the room trying t
chant "Mother, Pyc come home to die !!
Poor skeeter. A nice skeeter, but "twa
a pity he drank" An old veteran, wit
a punch full of 'alf and 'alf-blood an,
whisky--sat on the table reading LIE
Miserable, while his wife was under tn
stove trying to mend her broken win
with limpsey toothpick. She locke
disgustedl Another combed his hea
with a paper Of pins, tied q piece ofwhit
paper about his neck, pasted FIVE cen
internal revenue stamp on his rump an
, died like loyal citizen. His last word
! we're
: "Tell the traitors al around you." SO.
Another drunken scamp has just star
ed out Of the window for John b. Gougl
OF stomach pump. A worse behaved SC
Of bummers were never seen. The
have acted fearful. About two thousan
J lie about dead, but sadness seems not
break in upon their hilarious rioting uI
> on blood and whisky. Half dozen {
. them sat on our new hat playing dra
7 poker, using worm lozenges for check
while one Of the party got clean buste
by making a fifty dollar blind good on
fourth flush, which don't fill He wi
? be apt to wear cotton socks next wintt
and keep away from chufch collectio
DAYS Another one sat on the top Of
, brandy bottle, reading Baxter's Call
The Unconverted, while his partner liz
!. dead at his feet, evidently freed to clos
' doors by the failure Of Ketchum n So
4 Of New York. Six others were trying
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