The Red Cloud chief., 1881-08-18
The Mesquite In England.

Here il NUT be observed that mos
quitoes are especially hard on two sorts
of people. Young ladies' and children.
and many men, they sting till the vic
tins are all covered with blisters and
in danger Of erysipelas. This is pretty
bad. but we think the nervous persons.
whom mosquitoes sting little, but keep
awake with their buZzing. are even
more 10 be pItied. They ind the mos
quito's bark worse than his bite. The
latter may not mark or hurt them much;
II Is a question OF constitution; and
there are people with whom the bite
does not ''take," As they say of vacci-
nation. But they suiler al night long
from the shri!l, persistent noise Of the
mosquito ; trumpet. a 1.-THE first warn
ing they leap up. light q candle. take
il into bed, and try to catch the IN
truder. No one can guess how difficult
this is. You soon find the mosquito on
the curtain, where he lies apparently
asleep. Very cautiously you stalk him.
your hand is just over him, and us
tice is about To be done, when
the vicious creature flies away and
amuSes himself in mid-air. Presently
he settles. and the chase begins again.
till the hunter sets lire to the tiimsv
curtains, and has quite enough work 10
do in extinguishing the fire. After that
mosquitoes come and 60 as they please,
without let or hindrance. and day
dawns on a feyerish and frantic man,
who has only ba9ged two or three of
his innumerable enemies. Late in the
morning mosquitoes sleep, overcome
with triumph and the refreShment which
they have snatched from their enemy.
They MAJ now be killed, and it is curl
Gus to see-as any one who brushes
them will see-how much of mans vital
fluid n mosquito can absorb. They
who are fortunately inexperienced in
the WAYS of mosquitoes will now under
stand that the insect is one of the 81, at
est plaques that nature tolerates. There
are more dangerous iiieS-though the
mosquitoes bite is sometimes poisonous
and severe-but there is no more irri-
tating creature in the world than the
mosquito.
Hitherto the absence of flies that
bite has been one of Englaud's greatest
charms. No other country in u
latitude is SO free from them. Norway
and Sweden suffer eve more than the
south from mosquitoes. The mild
Bulgarian breads them. and there is a
CHASTITY story of a drunken Bulgarian
who tied up his wife in a mosquito trap.
The poor woman was bitten To death,
and her husband observed in the morn
ing that he had suffered almost as much
as if he had not thought of his savage
expedient. Greece is, perhaps, more
remarkable for the insect evidence is
derived the verb Ito fee than for
mosquitoes; and the same remark
holds good of the Baden contingent.
None of the countless snakes of America
or India cause more trouble, when the
host of minor miserics is added up,
than mosquitoes do. If theg have real
ly settled in London VT may expect
them to keep pretty e 4 The river. and
generally in the damper and less de-
sirabie parts OF the town. Our winters
must kill them, or most of them. or so
at least we might expect if the eX-
p%ericncc OF Norway with its far harder
winters did not .ook the other way. II
they do effect a settlement, there is no
help but To encourage trade by invest
Ing in mosquito curtains. The Ameri-
can humorist's plan is to get into bed,
wait till all the mosquitoes have enter
ed the curtains, and then rapidly bolt
out, shutting up the mosquitoes behind.
Sleep may then be obtained in an arm
chair or on a sofa. Perhaps we may
all soon have occasion to try both ways
of evading mosIuitOcs.-L0ndOn Aews.