Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-27

Whiuub io6Nos tnu8 Prepare ,DuE the coach
man, the WAGNER, and all others who use
horses during the hot months.
We are happy to learn that the Me-
chanics' Association of his city fourishes
and that many manufacturing establish
ments have been recently organized.
That city or own which so shapes its pol-
10y as to attract the working men has, in
the estimation of all sound thinkers,
solved n of the most important prob
lens In regard to growth and prosperity.
h working man il the Indispensable es-
s~ential; without him there is no advance
ment. A city or town made up Of doc
tors, lawyers, politicians, bankers and
merchants, would soon be overgrown with
moss, moth-eaten and o would disap-
pear. 1t would have no vitality, force,
influence or importance. The live ele-
ments in all communities are the work.
ing men. They carry forward the indus
trial enterprise of the world; they Level
the forests, bridge the rivers, tunnel the
mountains, dig tho canals, and frame the
locomotives; they build the cities and
cultivate the fields; they invent and con-
struct; they manipulate the keys of ma
chinery, and I'LL the lands with music.
They are the pioneers of Progress; and
the monuments of civilization are the
work of their hands. The sun-burnt face
and brawny arms bespeak the man "for a.
that" They are coming forward from
the Representatives of the pillow, the loom
and anvil, men who shape the destinies
of nations-men OF large brain and prac-
teal views, who received their graduating
diplomas in workshops, and whose words
on questions affecting the material inter-
ests of the State outweigh the unpracti-
cal themes and ephemeral logic of the
mere book-worm.
States in the Union are multiplied to
such an extent that our school geogra-
plies and city school marms cannot keep
pace with progress in the descriptions of
sovereignties and boundaries. We think
we can safely challenge almost any one
of readers to name with certainty the
thirty-eight States which now compose
the Union. The House Territorial Com
mittee decided in favor of the admission
of New Mexico as a State, to be called
Lincoln. State governments are expen-
sive~ Injuries; but apart from the desire
to honor the late lamented, like those of
counties in Tennessee, we see important
reasons tor this action. Next to the rail-
roads which now connect, and soon will
more fully bring the Atlantic and the
Pacific together, nothing has proved more
effective IN developing the of
the great West than State governments.
While we confess the benefcence of most
state governments, we have ever bsen at
a loss TO understand the motives of those
who seek to create another county within
the present limits of Shabby, Onees and
othce-holdeEAwill be duplicated, and soft
places will be created for several persons
now left out in the cold; but public bur-
dens will be augmented, and the MANY
must lose all that the lucky ofice-holding
few expect to gain.
The last number of the Scientific
american, in al exceedingly well written
article on the bee-eating SSndwasp Zone
of series by Prof. Day, has the follow
ing in regard to a "subject of general COM
plant at present." as the letter writers
say: 1.-The irritation that accompanies
the bite of q fly or a bed. bug is attributed
to the nature of the wound made by the
9 aborately contrived lancets. We ven
ture to think, however, that something
in the nature of the insect must affect the
persons bitten, as the effects produced on
different individuals are so diverse; thus
n person will be greatly inconveni-
enced by the bite of a bed-bug and not at
all by the bite of flea, while il another
it will be exactly the reverse. Il seems
impossible to account for this fact on the
theory Of simple mechanical injury.
Again, tits a common joke that mosqui-
toes prefer foreigners, originating from
the fact that persons lately arrived il thL
country suffer most from their bites. Ied
know that me may in time become "'uSe
uralized" to the bites, but we can haf as
realize a mans body becoming habii
ted to having fine needles periodic
run into it without producing the s.
at the last as at the first. Mate
over we have noticed a peculiariL tom
mosquito bites that we have not in tasO.
of other inseets-that their effects areava,
The effects may last for -, |
eral days, but the irritation and pain Ts"
only ree1r at intervals, and most ID,
bly,, rs it has seemed to ourselves lar Inc
othersl, as about the return of the leys
at which the bite was inflicted. e of
the mosquito is bred amidst decas of
vegetable matter, in stagnaut waters oII
It 1ourishes amidst the very hotbe6
hilarious and intermittent diseases,
L be that the mosquito contains ikrO-
.uices traces Of a poison miasmatic ieof
and may not the nature offoE
birthplace account for the greater or der
7irulence Of the effects of the bite? M
of whonce an insect comes - ,
rests unpleasant thoughts about b. !
lies. When they swarm around UNA :
summer we cannOt get rid of the inVoOn
airy question: Where did they alight ith
" upon what did they last feed? on I
ave a s~huddering dread that these s.f l
ner pests, like a dirty paper cure n
must be efficient OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES -
ion OF disease. Gobc-~ I
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