Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-08-28

some and fascinating. II is reported
that she is to be married in the fall.
Her dot will be fully s25000o.
Miss Astor and Miss Chandler, niece
and granddaughter Of the late w. B.
AstOr, are both helresses to large for
tunes.
SO is Miss KernOchan. daughter Of J.
P. Kernochan. who lately paid $4,000
cash for the celebrated Barreda mansion
on Madison avenue.
Miss Smith. niece Of Mrs. A. 7. Stew
art. has a large estate settled upon her
since the merchant princes death, aud
is now in Paris with Mrs Stewart
Miss Barlow, daughter of S. I'm.
Barlow, the Erie lawyer Miss Cooper.
rand.daughter of Peter Cooper; Miss
Brown, daughter Of James Brown, Of
Brown Brothers Miss Lee, daughter of
w. H, Lee. and Miss Morgan, daughter
of ex-Gov. Morgan, are all heiresses,
and there are others whose names at this
writing | do not recall.-N Y. Cores
pondence Buffalo Com AdV.
FLIEs.-The plague of flies is now the
great pest of the household. There is
no escaping their familiarities. They
will take liberties with the cold-blooded
man. and tumble by scores into the
milk pitcher if left for q moment un-
guarded. Apparently, the more they
are destroyed the greater their numbers.
Somebody has discovered that the cause
of their multiplication is the destruction
of the spiders. Housewives in driving
out these insects are banishing their
best friends, whose natural prey are the
flies But then. who can tolerate spi-
ders in the house If we cannot get rid
of the flies We may be satisfied to learn
that they serve good purpose DR.. A.
S. Packard, Jr., has discovered for what
they were made. If he is right, it is
fortunate that we cannot exterminate
these pestiferous plaques. DR.. Packard
says
"If in its winged condition is is one
of the most disagreeable features of dog
days, and people wonder why flies were
ever made at all, it should be remembed
that flies have an infancy as maggots,
and the loathsome life they then lead as
scavengers cleanses and purifes the
August air, and lowers the death
rate Of our cities and towns. Thus,
while stables, piggeries and filth are toll
Grated by city and town authorities, the
young Of the house fly and the flesh and
blow fiy, with their thousand allies, are
doing something towards purifying the
pestilential air, and averting the sum-
mer brood of cholera, dysentery, diph-
liberia, typhus and typhoid fever, which
descend like harpies upon the towns and
cities. 1t may be regarded as an axiom
that where flies most abound there filth,
death-dealing and baneful. is most abun.
dant, and filth diseases such as we have
named most do congregate. "
Again, the DIR. says -
The house fy's life may be summed up
as follows 1t lives one day in the egg
state, from FIVE days to a week as
maggot, five to seven days in the pupa
state-in all, from ten to fourteen days
in the month Of August-before the
winged adult period. II is often asked
how long-lived a fly is. Most of the
flies which are born in August live for
month or six weeks, and die at the COM
ing Of frost, either from cold or the at
tacks Of fungoid plants. A few probab-
ly winter over and survive until mid
summer, and thus maintain the existence
of this useful species, to which civilized
man owes more than he can readily es-
timate, and with which he can dispense
only when the health Of our cities and
towns is looked after with far greater
vigilence and intelligence than Is per-
haps likely to be the case for several
centuries