Delta chief., 1883-07-04
rrr.c. aIn.ios,onn.

Prom the New York Journal.
The mosaui,os recently went 10 a railroad
station In New Jersey and carried oil a pas
.cngcr. who was waiting for train. The
outrage was perpctrated about o'clock in
the evening mt an isolated station OF the Cot
,onyillc and Siayback railway. Nio.en, acts
of this kind have been too frequent in the
state. Every year people disappear from
the summer hotels, in the ncighborhood Of
Paterson and wcehawkcn. Il is usually
supposed that they have len with their bag
gage by back window. Invariably they
have been carried Of by mosquitoes.
The dcprc,la,ions Of these Wild animals in
New Jersey for The past two months have
been great. Farmers have los, their aules.
Oxen have disappeared from the fields.
Sathan'S circus while travelling through the
northern part of the State lately, was over
taken by mosquitoes in the middle Of a swamp.
Two rhinoccros stnng TO death. Two
elephants attached to chariot were eaten
out of their harness. Two mosquitoes which
entered one Of the cages and dcyourcd the
hippopotamus were so swollen that they
could not get out again, and became part Of
the menagerie collection.
Several New York printers spending the
summer nj an inebria;e asylum in the north.
crn part of the island. aver that while tramp
ing through New Jersey they have often met
mosquitoes cigh, and ten feet high, and large
in proportion. As mosqhitos have eyes in
the top Of their heads they would be pariic-
ularly annoying in city like New York, us
"a l...l a,,l lat N tuan .ilfiuy
u, window in the ,cnth or twelfth story.
II is no surprise then That since the United
States Government is trying TO restrict immi-
grafton, the New York Board Of Alderman
should pass resolution limiting the number
Of Jersey mosquitoes which may come to the
city. The resolution was proposed yesterday,
and We are glad to say passed almost without
n dissenting vote. In the course Of the de.
bate an alderman with u wart on his nose said
that the farmers Of New Jersey had been
very much annoyed for sometime hy mosqui.
tos coming before sunrise to sharpen their
bills on the grinds,oncs. Usually two came
together and ground their bills alternately.
They then sasd.papered them. They after
ward tested them by running them through
tree. A mosquito which had got its bill tang
led around knot in the centre of n tree was
attacked by party Of six farmers, lassoed
and finally killed with a club. There were
1000 species of the insect in the State. The
weather was always cloudy on account Of
their presence in the mir.
Another alderman indorscd what the other
spcnkcr had snid md continued that the bare
and dcsolatc character Of the New Jersey
woods. In which many trees were broken of
in the middle, and others were completely
stripped of their branches was due to mos
quitos roosting in them. The State was full
Of barns Of which the roofs had broken in two
in the centre from mosquitoes setting on them
Sign boards at the railways Ind broken down
from the same cause. This was the origin Of
so many fatal railway accidents. New sign
boards should be put up with "Look out for
the mosquitoes"
Analderman with bullying forehead spoke
Of their intelligence. They were In the habit
It