The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-10-20
Coareraing Coasa5c"o,ss I,,sscts.

Concerning CO1sD5c"O,ss gstsects.
The departure OF The summer season
carries away from us those busy in
sects mosauitCes and flies But we
do not forget them There is too
much cujicle surface ON the average
American citizen to encourage loss Of
memory Now, however, that We
have survived the summer visitation
of these winged creatures, it is sug-
gested that rural debating societies
during the winter months may prolita-
bIv take up for discussion the question,
(which is the most annoying little
cuss, the mosquito or the fly Z" 1t is
perhaps Unfair to decide the question
here, though as a matter oi opinion an
expression of views cannot he Oh
icctionahle. The difference between
the mosquito and fly lies partly in this
that the former attends strictly to
business while the latte" spends much
of his time like a tramp lOaiing around.
We never knew a mosquito that didn't
know when he had got enough. A fly,
on the contrary, will ligho on his pins
Just for thc sake Of lighting, and be
fore you know l. is there. Take for
example one fly and one mosquito on
warm summer night, and give them
for visitation a canopyless bed and
foi' a victim n thin-skinned ad'At.
The man sleeps soundly, the mos
quito mounts him and Selling tie star
board side. of small blood-vesscl !
gathers in his favorite nutrition and /
then retircs to.the ceiling, and sleeps !
Oft his stup0r The fly meanwhile has I
been rodst;ng on u inantel-piece. All |
the day before he was in the kitchen |
bel5w, and took everything by course !
ILL his capacity was exhausted and his /
hunger satisfied If he wants any /
m0re stimulunts he knows the way /
down stairs but he does not want /
more, and would remain quietly on his !
roost but for discovering just at dawn |
the fellow in bed Not being ut all |
hungry, and having little time to /
spare he proceeds, just out of pure
deyltry, TO see-what he can do. In /
about one minute and forty-one seconds /
the man is awake sp!ashing about aud /
damning that hy. Probably the man
never swore before, but he had never !
been harrilssed in bed st 40 a. M, by I
a flv. =
II IS Just the hour in the morning
when snoozing is the fellows oest hold, |
but the fv, like the old flag. is still |
there OF course he gets up, and see !
ing the fly sitting quietly on jam in /
the bed-p0st goes for him gently and I
with an open hand; but when he gets |
where the fly is, the hy is on the wall |
licking his legs, and apparently trying |
to make an address on the uncertainty |
of human calculations. After two |
hours of patient endurance, the occu- |
pant Of the bed, when it is full time to !
get up EoI' tlie day, captures Lis tor
mentor. Does he take that fly, as id !
. my JTnde TOBY" and convey it
carefully 20 the window and let it sail |
like zephyr upon the baimy morning
air UemarkirT that there is room
enough in this world for thee ana
me p Hardly. That fly died of
hemorrhage suddenly, aged three
months and twenty days. The pres
ence of she mosquito was not known
ny tiEp murderer
We do not propose to answer the
debatable question propounded in tLis
article; but debating societies are at
liberty to make such Use Of the facJs
suggested as may he helpful in stimu-
lating amateur arguments; still we
have 10 hesitation in saving that our
synpathies are not 50 much with the
fiv rs TO make il desirable to keep a
few She year round simply for the
cultivation of acquaintance and the
encouragement Of profanity.-IHe
Oak Leaf