The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-08-30

MOSQUITOES. We ace reminded by stray
MOSQUITO or 80 that this IS TIC season "hcn
no,uuitocs are in their prime OF Vlgor ana
yiail!uce, and that il they do not do OF G'c now
tsey will not do much this year. lis not more
than once in decade that mosquitoes are
,roubicso,nc in Richmond. TIE city Is so
we'll drained that there are few stagrant
pools even, and 10 such things as stagnant
pond, for the rascals to gender in. This
wear the raius have been corious, and every
cu1ysrs ond drain hes been kept SO clear OF
D,rr;d water that there has been little chance
for mo qnito-bgeeding. Richmond, there
fore, ucyer hardly favorable place Tor mos
qui.ocS. is now perhaps more exempt Ihan
usual ffcm them. We rather think that this
Is Il cause Of satisfaction.
We remember that about the year lo42
the opeJa,ions on the dock in this city were
such that its bed was exposed tie wholc
summer, and there were pools OF water ana
broad surfaces Of very black and bid mud
expo I'd to the hot sun for many weeks.
The mo. quitoes did good business in this
highly lavorabe Matching ground. The sue
cessiyc generations took wing and distrou'
ted Themselves in every house, ard the STOCK
was Sufficient to give to each house an ample
su pply. Mosquito netting went up all over
town. There was no rest for the duyllllsE
prosecutors except under the netting. Ihl'
writer most unfortunately had put himself
upou the silk-stockinSs and pumps plat
form, aud the manner in which be was
punctufrd through the stockings aforesaid
j. not TO nc forgotten. That year Richmond
learned what it was to have an abundance OF
MOSQUITOES, and she learned how 10 Pity Nor
folk and Plymouth and that place IN North
| Carolina bearing the happy name OF Eaen-
ton. The tact vas. no man here had the i'm.
pudence 10 say There are not many mos.
"Qutocs III Richmond (tghtiuS mosquitoes
the whik), but if you 50 down 10 Norfolk
" you will isd Il plenty Oh EN-" No; that
! was no 20. Mosquitoes were truth that
every man held TO DC SeItcVidcnt.
Since then we have had comparative
immunity from them. Still some persons
who love muSic will hoist the net so that
they may know how very sweet is the mos
Guito's song when he can't get at you. We
never could Iiuagiue what the creature was
made for eXcvp: to sing reaple to sleep while
he is kept where he csn dc 40 harm. How
delicious is tie 1aitering Of the rain on the
roof of the happy uan.ion i'll which there
are security ard comfort! How cN1uistely
grateful is the roor Of waves 1T i distance, or
any of the sounds that indicate peril while
YOU are coutent and safe. But Oh, how in
descriDably grateful is the song Of the ras'
| cally blood-suckcr when be can't get at you
! the sound Of whose charge is terrible, and
whose sting Is Al asony-Wheu he can.
No wonder that MuuchauseniSm should
originate the most cXtravagaEt storie;
concerning this little wretch: such al
his often being 30 large that he carried ;
brick-bat under his wing with which to whc
bis bill, and Of there being q race in Florid;
that would climb \ tree and bark, and many
of which would weigh pound, &C., &c
OF sell insects the mosquito seems to be thu
least credtable Dad we say it with due rev
erence) TO nature. We have never yet seei
an apology put up TOR him, anu if one Were
| made we should tie in favor Instantly o
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