The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-10-29


How doth the busy mosquito improve
each hour he can. by feeding ell the
hours Of night on every sleeping man7
The wisest philosophers, and the acu-
test theologians have been unable 10 an
ywer that fearful conundrum, What is
the use Of the mosquito ? .sJS
In view of his in ncessant humming,
does not the musquito, above all other
insects, deserve the title of hum-bug?
Next to q tiger or byena, the worst
thing to have under the netting that
covers your bed, is solitary, hungry
mosquito. How he booms around, un
til he finds you, and settles down to glut
himself upon your blood! Talk Of the
vampire! He is but a fictitious exag-
gerated edition Of the Jersey mosquito +!
OF all cities in Europe, Venice and
Mantua suffer most from mosquitoes.
They generate in the lagoons OF Venice,
and in the artificial fosses or bitches that
surround Mantus. ssss<
/ In some parts Of Lombarda and We
hetia a little powder is sold, which is
burned in the room before retiring. 1t
yis quite effectual in banishing mosqui-
toes, and does not effect the health of
the sleeper
Experienced mosquito killers are di-
vided in their preference between
slipper and a damp towel, as an instru-
msnt Of massacre of such mosquitoes as
are reposing on the wall or ceiling.
It has been said that if you catch
MOSQUITO, and pull his teeth out, you can
then spare his life, and let him go with
out fear, as he cannot do any further
harm. Ezs
Is the song Of the mosquito war
note of defiance, or is it the simple thrill
ling Of merry heart.
There are birds who nib, and peck.
and gobble harmless flies and crickets,
but there are none, alas who subsist on
mosquitoes.
Staten Island is favorite resort for
the mosquito, and at Bergen Point he
delishteth to dwell. He also hath his
tabernacles in Long Island.
To the moralist the mosquito presents
the spectacle of creature who subsists
entirely by rapine-of being without
| one redeeming trait-of an existence
eminently typical of Original Sin and
Total Depravity.
Webster officially informs US that the
mosquito is small insect Of several
different species, of the genuine culer,
having sharp pointed proboscis, by
means of which it punctures the skins
of animals and sucks their blood, the
minute wounds thus made being often
attended with swelling and q considera
BILE degree of pain. The larvse are de-
veloped in water. The common mos
quito of the United States is c. mosquito,
and there are various species that abound
in marshes and low lands, and whose
stings are peculiarly painful
Several of our leading poets have at :
tuned their muse TO the notes of tn e
mosquito Among them is Bryant who
who has, in well known poem. devot-
ed q dozen six line stanzas to the pre-
posterous creature. He calls him
Fair insect that with thread like legs spread out,
Aud bood-extracting bill and filmy wing,
Doth murmur, as thou slowly sailest about
In pitiless ears full many paintive thing.
He tells how the subject of his song
was born in Jersey meadows fresh and
creen,' how he futtered over the river
and up Broadway, and adjures him not
to feed on a guant poet, but to
Try some plump alderman, and suck the blood
Enriched by generous wine and costly meat
On we'll filled skins, sleek as thy native mud,
Fix thy light pump, and press the freckled feet;
Go to the men for whom, in oceans halls,
The oyster breeds. and the green turtle sprawis
There corks are drawn, and the red vintage flows
To fill the swelling veins of thee, and now
The ruddy cheek and now the ruddier nose
Shall tempt thee, thou fittest round the brow
| And when the hour Of sleep its quiet brings,
No angry hands shall rise to brush thy wings.
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