Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-11-18
A Wandering Bug.
tAllA California;


DIR. s., very well.known local
physician, was busy yesterday in a wild
chase after some kind Of a Uug expert.
Tucked away In his vest pocket was a
vial loaded with alcohol, In which
floated a queer sort Of insect, aud TO
discover the ancestry and genus of the
thing was the object of his quest. In
spection through the colnrless glass ana
surrounding liquid showed the captive
up as bug foreign to the vision OF the
beholder. and a very queer sort of an
affair generally. In general appearance
and i'm point of size it was cross be-
tween a shrimp and scorpion, with
the business-like tail of the latter, and
the pink color that the shrimp assumes
OTTER being boiled to fit him for being n
Californan's appetizer for oysters. The
legs were six i'm number, each possess
ing two knees, and built on the plan OF
the powerful kickers of the grasshop-
pers. There were no eyes visible on
close scrutiny, and this would seem to
indicate that it was intended for It's
dark, unwelcome home. The tail, as
above stated. did not have the fans OF
the shrimp, ended in a point after the
manner of the scorpions arcuated ana
dagger-like appendage. 1t ends the
iOinted body i'm the same manner that
the shrimp's tail does, but, of course,
does not spread out at the terminus.
"Where did you get it%' asked the
III think / had better take it to the
Academy of Sciences" irrelevently re-
turned DR.. s., as he thOughtfully
gazed at the vial; perhaps some of the
savants there could classify 1t; can't,
and don't seem to be able to find any
scientist who can. They all shift the
burden of research on some brother In
a different branch of natural science"
"I asked you where you got it?" put
in the reporter.
"Well, SIR" returned the medico i'm
pressively, "it came from the stomach
ofa young lady, who has been my
patient, with view to getting rid of 1t,
for the past fortnight. Yesterday this
thing surrendered, after the manner OF
Jonah and came forth alive and kick
ing. 1t died, however, soon after reach
ing the open air. The young lady is
we'll and happy, and now all want to
do is to discover the intruder's identity.
| The reporter reused up with profess-
sional instinct, and commenced to ask
luuestions. He met with extremely
frigid answers, and all attempts to gain
any detailed information were unsuc'
cessful until he faithfully promised to
withhold the names of himself and the
lady who formed the prison of the bug
The latter, he said, was we'll known II
society here, and distinguished both by
her beauty of face and form and hel
brilliant conversational powers. She
was in holy horror other strange ex
perience being made public, and it wa!
with great difficulty that he rescued the
bug from destruction at her hands,
Finally the doctor secured permission
to preserve the bug in the interests o
science, but it was hard work.
"That's my bug" protested th'
beauty, tearfully, and with a shudde
of disgust, land If papa pays you TO
, catching him, I have right to do as
please with him."
When, however, her objections wer
8 finally overcome, she gave the doctO
7 further permission to furnish notes o
her symptoms with the bug, but it /
: doubtful if they will be much aid to tn
!, entomologist who attempts to classif,
S it. The nondescript first made hi
e presence known in her stomach abOu
I the middle of April, but how he go
: there, or what his intended bushes
l was, are mysteries to the unfortunat
; victim of his intrusion. He first de
q clared himself by crawling about tn
9 walls of his prison, and as his six leg
Z took their individual grip they infiicte
f. a half painful and half tickling sensa
ton that drove the young lady nearl
wild, and frequently caused spasms G
e great violence. The creature used t
o take these exercise walks at most irree
ular intervals, sometimes as often a
: once q day, and again only once
: week. AS he grew bigger and stronge
e he evidently sought to try tn
: strength of his scorpion tail, for hi
II victim frequently experienced severe
i agonizing stabs, like the puncture of
}, pin or needle, and at such times she nc
d infrequently tainted from mingled pal
l. and terror. Altogether she experience
. thirty-three of the promenades an
: eighteen of the stabs, and her deaf
: was but a question of short time frol
\ fright, if nothing else, when she fo
! tunately fell into the hands of DIR.
-. Two other physicians had pr
e scribed for the unfortunate woman, bl
T. they treated her as if her infiiction ws
n the ordinary brand of tapeworm
$ whereas the real trouble seemed to q
IS fat on verInifuge and other curative
II How DR.. S-retrieved the prowle
n or what means he took to raise hin
a he declined to state, but vouched fl
: the fact that the bug was alive whe
Is he first got sight oft.
IF possible the doctor hopes that tt
capture NAV turn out to be some sort
d cousin to the living long-hair bat tn;
i was dug out of the internal structure
It Mrs. Mary Powers Of Cambridge, Mass
1t two or three weeks ago, and which sti
n lives and puzzles all the scientific me
g, who have,.visited it. The Boston Globe
r description of this catch, made by ID
e Harrss, with a strong emetie as bal
a. was published in Mondays Alta, and
|. even stranger, if such thing can b
TO than the case above detailed.
1f ---' - -
ID had given myself up as lost becau
k of inherited scrofula. Tried ever
If thing for purifying the blood witho
If benefit until | used Parker's Tonic, al
S; can truthfully say that it has cured m
IS still use 1T forits splendid effect o., n
Ie general health. Fl. X Lynd, Chicago