, 1873-09-28


called "Crotoll-bugs' taken possession OF
nearly every dwellng-houHe, Office. warohonso,
aud other building in tho various parts Of Tho
wardrobe. or eyon tho refrigerator, ii exempt
from tho presence of these annoying insects.
Tho aower-barrel Is l. special hive for thon,,
resting aud breeding there by the million under
tho hoops, headings, and whoroyer q creyico can
bedding is not exempt from their vista.
tiouB, and, no matter how careful aud
tidy housewife may bo, she cannot overcome
the myrads Of these pes.a as they swarm from
wainacosings, 1nantols, surbaseH, dining-tabos,
window-sills, aooringa, undor carpets, from cup
boards, and elsewhere, and everywhere. They
reye1 iu tho Il doad SHOT " powders that are ron
resented to be their ''sure extorminators," aud
dance-it may 10 tho I" dance Of death I'm tho
dosed with Paris greon. poison SO fatal to hui
man life, and which they can truck with them
whorovor they travel. Ihoy are said to DO as
harmless as crickots. but unlike tho cricket,
which ia seldom visible, they arc to be soon With
the naked eye almost everywhere. Tho cricket
but not heard. It does not bite, but It piuohes
aud scratches.
On their first appearance they wore supposed
TO DO without teeth or fangs, but by cultivation
show their fangs, but to rake over tho shoepskin
binding Of copy. Of Blackstone an II it wero
simply copy Of tho "Cricket Oh the Hearth f"
In papor or paatoboard. OF tho genus cock
roach, they Seldom get az fat az that insect, aud
hence mo not so valuable as a article Of food to
produce obesity or plumpncsa Of form iu tho
CircasHian and Georgian female slave marts Of
Turkey and Egypt.
A friend determined to lay trap to catoh q
swarm. Ho laid a cloth il, i spotN where they
range, for they coyet warmth, honce may not 10
considered Siberian or northern bug, but rath-
OF bug Of tho Tinabuctoo tribo. In fow min
ntes the cloth was covered with, porhapg, mill
ly gathered the cornors Of tho cloih together,
and in twiuklilg dumped tho whole cargo Into
Binkful OF Croton water-their natural olo-
montl Inetead of Booing tAom sink mud drown,
what was the surprise of our frielld to SEQ thom
skating rink. cutting the celebrated figure '!8"
and other capers. After diBporting themselves
TO ther satisfaction tloy crawlol mp Oh the faul-
lly towel aud aired and dried themselves ~ thor
1oiHure.
Pulvorized borax has Deon recommended for
their extermination but, nBtand OF driving
thom away, they Boem to think that tho borax
should be used III young Indies 1o . solution Of
the same to improve their complexlona. Pow
annco, With no more effect tlnn green por-
Bmmon would hayo Aad-porhaps not 30 much.
Thoy have beon known to travel over bowl Of
brokon Ice, aud, reaching . champagne bot
tie. crawl llI1 al!A porcll themselves OH tho
cork, looking ~ it they wero giving a
lusty coek-a-doosile-d over their
achievement. It IL all worry clever for
quaoks to assort that their compound,
Or liquid, or POWDER, will drive, them
but 1t drives them only from ono Shelf in Clip.
board to another, from ono drawer to another,
from one crack or oroyco to another. to return
in . briof period with grand army Of reiuforco-
MentH.
It III statod that the largo number OF furnished
h0uBes to lot up town arlHoB from the fact tint
their ownors have boon actually oyerwho,ned
and drlyou out by these hugs-a,il Bomo OF tho
ownosa co1sider thouBolyoH "blg bugs" too.
but this III not SO; they show THAR fayora
alike upon the high antl tho low toue-
menta tho rich and tho poor. noing
truly democratic, all fats sse slike to their