Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-10-01
A Universal Plague.
THE MOSQUITO BITES. FILLS UP AND COMES
BACH FOR MORE.

BACK FOR MORE.
The principal objection to both the
mosquito and the old inha bitant is that
he always comes back at you. After he
has filled up, so to speak, he goes off,
but he always comes back and wants
more. A mosquito never knows when
he has enough to eat. In this respect
he is very much like an office-holder.
He is invariably willing to serve a sec
ond term. He always sends up his plate
for more. We dislike to use harsh Ian
guage about public institutions, but it
is the sacred duty of the Journalist to
remind the police that they are not doing
their whole duty in regard to the mus
quitoes. No arrests are made, and yet
the mosquito has no vote. As long as
the MOSQUITOES wara nllio+ o.,I ~----r---
aG1veIy few in number, no complaint was
made but now they have grown so bold
that they have fairly taken the town.
They swarm the public streets, and some
of them are certainly big enough to be
arrested. An occasional mosquito is
not so bad but when there is brig
ade of mosquitoes to the square inch,
and each one is as hungry as Tanner, it
is time something should be done about
it. The mosquitoes were so thick re-
Gently that a man needed about seven
teen hands to keep them off. 1t is a
solemn fact that the mosquitoes stopped
the street cars They did not precisely
organize posse and halt the car at the
county line, but they kept people on
the sidewalks so busy with their hand
kerchief that the drivers were deceived,
and stopped the cars every forty yards,
thinking that people on the sidewalk
were anxious to get aboard The mus
quitoes refused TO recognize the hand
kerchief as flag of truce, and just kept
up hostilities. A gentleman whose name
we suppress, tried his level best to dis
courage the mosquitoes from chewing
up his ears, as a mule would bundle of
fodder, by shaking his handkerchief
On the opposite side of the street lady
was also shaking her handkerchief at
the mosquitoes, when the excitable hus-
band lit in on the mosquitoes with q
club, and accidently crippled the man with
the handkerchief. Who says it is not
time that troops were called out to pre-
serve order and bulldoze the insects? It
would not be bad idea for the COM
bined fleets of Europe to make hos
tile demonstration against the Galveston
mosquitoes, just as is being done with
Turkey. Come to think of it, it is hard
ly worth while, until we have deep
water on the bar One would suppose
the people of Galveston were the most
excitable in the world, they are so full
of the most eloquent gestures. When
you see two men talking, you are led to
infer that they are on opposites sides in
politics, and are discussing the news
from Maine. One waves his arms over
his head, as if he were trying to stop a
railroad train and avert an awful acct
dent, while the other brings his right
hand down into the palm of his left, as
if he were saying "And dent yo. for
get it." There are other eloquent GEES
lures, of course, such as scratching an
ear, after the manner of dog using his
hind leg to demonstrate with q flea.
When the mosquitoes are very bad, two
men conversing peacefully about the
weather, go through such antics that the
spectator is persuaded they are engaged
III DoAlnS udtcu' 1Hefe Is urge
dragon fly called the musqriSo-hawk,
that is doing land Office business just
now. There will be dense cloud Of
mosquitoes in the air, and a dozen OF
these mosquitoes feeding on the cloud,
just as drove of mules would on a stack
of fodder, but it does no good. The
supply of mosquitoes is unlimited. The
musquito-hawk ought to be as big as a
schooner, and have big pouch like a
pelican. In that event if the hawk
could be induced to work nine hours q
day, the musquito census might fall of
little, but as things now are, Galveston
is in bad fx-GalceSton Neecs.