The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-02-26

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and, moreover, no man win be entitled |
70 the benefit of clergy who doeth in |
any way treat her proposal with slight |
or contumely." EF aFT
The Paradise Of Insects.
None but those who have travelled
On the Upper Amazons can have any
idea of the number and verocity of the
insect torments which work their wick
ed will on the bodies of the unfortu-
mates exposed to their attacks. The
Sc 'ssancudos," or small sand-faies, form
by far the most important section. In
the villages, round which the forest is
cleared away for some distance, the
are generally pretty quiet
during the day, except where darkness
there they are ever busy, and
are perfect plague. The triumphant
note of q sancudo which has made his
way under your curtains is more annoy
ing than even his bite; and should you
have been careless in getting into bed,
and been accompanied by two or three
of these blood-suckers, we will defy
you to sleep until you have extermina-
ted them.
In the forest and on the river the
are always busy. Men some
times get into the vessel 8 tops, and there
cover themselves with sacks, notwith-
the heat, rather than remain
below exposed to their attacks. Fortu-
nAtely they cannot stand q current of
air, and 80 when under way the vessel
is comparatively free from them, but
when at anchor these pests are some
thing awful. To get rid of them is
next to impossible. Creosote win keep
them of. but the remedy Is as bad as
the disease. Whitewash will drive
them away, but when dry its power
ceases; and the only thing to do is
either to cover all exposed parts of the
body with black pigment q Ia mode In
diesssse. or else to 81 grin and bear it"
Scarcely less troublesome than the
sancudos are the mosquitoes, although
they have the negative merit of biting
only by day. They are minute GREAT
ures, notmuch larger than . pins head;
they prefer the backs of the hands to
any other spot for their attacks. But,
unlike the sancudo, which, when un-
disturbed, gorges himself until unable
to fly, and becomes an easy prey to
your avenging finger, the mosquito
never seems TO take too much to pre-
vent his easy escape on the slightest ap-
pearance Of danger, being evidently
Just as wide-awake when full as when
empty.
Everywhere in long grass turks the
"moquim," little red insect so small
as to be almost imperceptible, but
which fastens on the legs, causing the
most intolerable itching.
There is q fly which burrows in the
skin and deposits an egg. both in hu-
man beings and animals.. This pro-
duces . maggot, similar in shape to
that Of the common blow-fy, but much
larger, probably analogous to the
Guine1rworm. E9
Then there are /" chigos, which bur-
row mostly in the soles of the feet. You
feel an intense itching, and on exami-
nation find little thing like pea just
under the epidermis; this is the bag
containing the young chigos, which
must be carefully picked ont with the
point of . knife, and the cavity left
filed with tobacco ash.
Huge spiders abound, whose very ap-
pearance inspires q wholesome dread
Of q nearer acquaintance, but which are
harmless enough If let alone. In fact,
on board the steamers. almost every
cabin is tenanted by one large spider,
whose presence is tolerated on account
Of his being q deadly foe to cock
reaches, which abominable Great
ures swarm on board. Sometimes he
is not visible for fortnight or more at
time; but he leaves tokens Of "hav-
ing been there" in the shape of the
empty husks of cockroaches, from
which he has carefully abstracted the
interior. These spiders have the power
OF springing upon their prey from dis
tance, and some of them are 30 large
and powerful as to kill and devour
small birds.
In passing through the narrow forest
paths It Is necessary to be on the look
out for the wood-ticks, which are very
difficult to get rid of If once firmly at
tached; also for the huge black ants,
an inch and half in length, with
stings like q hornets; and the sauba
ant, without sting, but armed with nip
pers like pair of surgical bone-for-
ceps, which are running about every
where. One may sometimes chance
upon q column of the dreaded i" fire
ants" marching in regular military
order; and il he does, the only thing is
to bolt at once, for neither man nor
beast may withstand the fre-ant and
live. When at length the traveller
stops to rest, he must take care to ex'
anime the camping ground to see thai
neither centipede nor scorpion is there
Frequently both centipedes and scor
pions are found on the steamers, intro
duced, no doubt, in the wood used fol
fuel. One day, while the writer wa.
watching the hands taking wood from
canoes alongside, from one of the log.
pitched on board was dislodged scor
pion, which fell on the naked left arm
Of man keeping tally at the gangway
Astonished by his sudden fight through
| the air. the animal remained perfectly
still. The man never moved q muscle
and quietly raising his right hand
| tipped it away with his fingers anG
thumb. II was very neatly and coolly
done; and he thus escaped q sting
which he no doubt would have receives
had he tried 70 brush it hastily away
Harper's Housg Folks. -
Napoleon's American Dream.
The following deeply interesting &C
| count. never before given to the public
of the escape of King Joseph from
France, and his voyage to America
was communicated to the author b,
Adolph Mailliard. of San Rafael, Cal.
therson of Louis Mailliard, the devotet
secretary and most confidential frien,
of the ex-King: -
ga few hours before embarking OF
the French brig which was to take hin
to the United States, Joseph sent Mail
lizard to the Emperor, with letter urg
ing again his brother to exchang
places, and make his escape from
France in Joseph's vessel. But Napo
leon replied verbally to the messenger
Tell my brother that have well con
sidered his offer, and that cannot &C