The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-07-03

a day of rest and recreation, no paper
will be issued from this Office tomorrow
Sunday morning.
The hopes Of the gardeners revived
somewhat, yesterday. There was re-
freshing rain, which, if repeated, will re-
vive the nearly dried-up vegetation.
Owing to the limited amount of busi-
ness, the publication of the Greenville
IS. @. Mountaineer has been suspended
temporarily, at least. The Mountaineer
is one of the Oldest papers in the State.
and we exceedingly regret that it has
been forced to succumb to tho pressure
Of the times.
The XIX Century comes to us afford
ing, from the cursory inspection which
we have MS yet been only able to give it,
agreeable and entertaining reading mat
ter. No. 9 of 1.-The Blockade Runners"
is an exceedingly interesting sketch. "A
Leaf from an Old Lawyers Portfolio"
meets with our appreciation. Altogether,
the XIX Century is Southern maga-
zine, which we can honestly commend.
Sun 'sTRoKE-How TO AVOID IT.-The
season when the suns rays pour down
with their greatest intensity, and inflict
upon the head of man the dangerous
maladJ known as coup de soleil, is now at
hand, and it is we'll to remind persons of
the fact. Very simple precautions will
save persons from being seized by the
malady in question. One of the best
preventives is n thin piece of sponge
loosely sewed into tho top of the hat, and
occasionally moistencd with water in the
course Of the day. We have heard of a
man who walked twenty miles under q
hot sun with damp pocket handker
chief inside the crown of his hat, and
did not suffer any inconvenience. A cab
bage leaf is equally efficacious.
b.
A Coon WORD FOR THE MosoU1ro.
This is seldom spoken. The man who
does so, must really have great deal
OF Christian charity in his composition.
And yet it has been dono, we must con-
fess, with some effect upon even ourself,
who regard her singing and her bite the
most annoying of all things. If, how
ever, what is said below by an entomolo-
gist Of the mosquito be true, we must
'give in" and accord to her quality
which we have hitherto denied her, that
of not being an unmitigated pest, but
possessing some useful qualities. We say
her, for it seems the male mosquito does
not bite nor suck our blood:
''The eggs of the mosquito are lain in
bowl-shaped mass upon the surface of
stagnant water by the mother fly After
Matching out, they finally become the
'wiggle-tails' or wriggling worms that
may be seen in the summer in any bar
rel of water that is exposed to the atmos-
phere for any length of time. Finally,
the 'wiggle-tails' come to the surface,
and the full-hedged mosquito bursts out
of them, ut first, with very short, limp
wings, which in short time grow both in
length and stiffness. The sexes then
couple, and the above process is repeat
ed again and again, probably several
times in the course of one season. 1t is
u curious fact that the male mosquito,
which may be known by its feathered
anten@, is physically incapable of suck
ing blood.
The mosquito is not an unmitigated
pest. Although in the winged state, the
female sucks our blood and disturbs our
rest, in the larvae state the insect is de-
cidedly beneficial, by purifying stagnant
water that would otherwise breed mala-
rial disease. Linneus long ago showed
that If you place two barrels of stagnant
water side by side, neither of them con-
tanning any "wiggletails' or other living
animals, and cover ono of them over
with gauze, leaving the other one unco-
vered so that~it will soon became full of
'wiggle-tails' hatched out from the eggs
deposited by the male mosquito, then
tho covered barrel will in q few weeks
become very offensive, and the unco-
vered barrel will emit no impure and
nnsavory vapors."
If the females disturb your slumbers,
the following is said to be an excellent