Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1886-09-03
EsDE UGs.
The Subject discussed from a
Eaturalisis stand pOint.

! "hSh my SSc ~: VIC uOuUI a man
# them have ever given the lit!
':.s;;ct the study it deserves.
Some years ago in conversation
, with ex-Chief Justice Beatty tn
) writer gained great deal Of valu
able information regarding the ami
nal. It was Beatty Senior, and b,
claimed to Lave made a careful
study Of the bedbugs peculiarities
The hed5ug" SAID he has more
brains than almos: anything of it,
size. 1t is foolish to put the leg:
| Of the beGstcadin water for tie bus
| will crawl up On the ceiling anC
drop down on the bed. How the!
can hang back downward from 6
perfectly fat surface and then lei
60 IS what has always puzzled me
] have carefully examined their
feet with a microscope ard failed
| to detect either the presence Of air
cells Or any aiutinous substance but
my instrument was of low power
and I might have thus been placed
at disadvantage.
THE bug will breed in pine or
cottonwood timber and multiply by
millions. When house is put up
| claim Chat they can see 1t for a
long distance and make for it at
once to feed Oh human flesh. Now
why Go they proceed in this man.
ner when they have never touched
It before? | don't suppose you can
answer this question. as | never
found a man who could, unless it is
+ hat human flesh is the native food
of the bcdbug and instinct draws
them to the spot.
After one Of them gorges him
self with blood he rctires for TWEEN.
ty-four hours. If a man we're to
drink as much blood IN proportion
to his weight as 4 bcdbug, he would
consume twelve or fifteen gallons.
In entering house they adopt
much the same method as the burg
lar. They climb up fron the out
side and into tie window, / have
watched long line Of them follow
ing a leader. The leader is eener-
ally very large and | have heard
persons say that the leader has a
red spot OF his back, but | 90 rot /
find this verified by actual obscrva-
ton.
Hardly anything that man can
invent will circumyent the bedbug.
\ pair Will breed several hundred |
and It is hard to kill them as fast
as they reproduce. | have not
much faith in insect powders. Ny
way is to burn The bed and par
chase anew.
Charley Stoddard, the promoter,
gives the following information:
In the cid mining camps, you
,ever saw a bedbug until women
zane in. This is my experience,
They brought them in a trunk. If
he old miners had only knew that
,edbuss came with women the women
would never have secured foot
lold, that's all. But | guess its too
ate now. When the bugs have
nothing else to feed on they will
at each other up. l put a hun
lred In a glass box once and in a
ew weeks only a few remained,
having eaten all the rest. Finally
,ue big bug survived and he was as
at as an alderman.
My plan to get rid Of the bugs
5 to souse the beGstead with ker-
sene oil and set it atire. There is
flash, a blaze and the insect drops
Fl by thousands. The oil burns
ut quick and you are fixed. Some
ines the dry bedstead catches a
re and goes to. These are the
hances you take"
Senator Stewart said, that he had
cen bedbugs climb on sticks and
" i.s and wait for favorable winds
0 blow them across small stream
here they could invade village.
hey would board chip near the $
hore and if it did not soon move
way they would board another. a
Judge Belknap thought that the
Hotel in Virginia
ity was the greatest place for the
ests he had ever seen. He had
allied the landlords attention to it
OCCASIONALLY with no good results