Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-31
Worth Knowing,
How the House Fly, the Wicked Flea and Mosquito May all be Put to Flight.
 tFrom Harpers Bazarl

l How the House Fly, the Wicked FIea a nd Mosquito May all be Put to Flight. 1 GFrom Harper's Bazar.l
 l The pyrethrum roseum or ssPersian cam
 omile'' is the powdered leaf of harmless l flower growing in Caucasian Asia in great l profusion, where for centuries 1t has been l used to rid the natives of insects With q 1 finely prepared dust made from these flow l CTS, which can be purchased of almost any reliable druggist at about seventy cents Q l pound, the house fly, the wicked flea and the mosquito may all be put to flight or to rest
 In order to enjoy this delicious riddance it is l only necessary to heap up with little cone 1 one-teaspoonful of the drug pyrethrum, touch l 1t with lighted match and watch the thin l blue line or smoke as it rises to the ceiling and is waited through the air. changing the l busy drone of insect life into weak wall of 1 insect woe. Pretty soon down they come plump on to the table and over your naner 1 spin on their tiny backs and then sheathe 1 their lancets, curl up their hair-like legs and | interest one no more. Up stairs the little ones sleep unmolested though there are tbo,1 l sands of mosquitoes in the room: the pests l are sick unto death and cling sadly to the 1 walls, too feeble to think of tapping the rich. warm blood that glows in ruddy little limbs just below the fume of the pyrethrum has settled their business, and while it fingers in the room outsiders are unwilling to make an entry, though the windows are raised and
 the 1attices only half closed. Gauge bars are hot, stuffy things at best, and one must be
 sadly driven to attempt to sleep under such
 cover then, as we all know, the mosquito
 always finds his way through, no matter how
 carefully one may tuck up it's folds about the
 couch
 Smoke from the Persian camomile or it's
 dusty powder we have found most effacious,
 and your readers will bless me when once
 they try it. The purity of the drug must be
 assured. This can be readily tested It must
 q oh hI1ff ha
 burned, and give a pleasant, tea-like fra
 grance; one pinch should kill dozen flies.
 confined in bottle, at once. When it fails
 of these properties 1t has been adulterated
 In common use, in large or breezy rooms,
 where. from great dilution,~it fails to kill it nevertheless produces on insect life, through it's volatilized essential oil or resin, undoubt- ed nausea, vertigo, respiratory spasms and paralysis. It acts upon them through the minute splracles, the breathing tubes that stud the surfaces of their little bodies, and form the delicate networks of veinsFn their tiny wings To human beings it is. so far as can ascertain, entirely innoxious and not dlsagreeable. That we-a family of eight persons, infants and adults-have lived for several weeks in an atmosphere of pyrethrum dust and smoke combined, during this pres- ent summer, is sufficient proof of my state ment. To the skeptio recommend an in teresting experiment.: Puff the pyrethrum into close, warm room, where flies most love to swarm, just after dark shut the door, and make another visit in thirty minutes. The sight of seeing millions of dead and squirming vermin on the floor will do his heart good-that is, if he is human and not an angel.
 Having drafted our plan of battle against these little foes, it becomes proper to speak of the care of the wounded. To cure mos quito stings, know nothing better than a twenty per cent. solution, in either oil or wa ter, of pure carboic acid. This is to be rub bed well On the painful spot. To bathe one's tinging hands and smarting limbs with this solution gives cooling, grateful sensation that is hard to describe. Carboic soap will do almost as well, or an ointment compound ed of carbol, camphor and cosmoline.