The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-10-26
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The Nsw Jeraey Iaarot Can Not uoid i
Candle 10 Them.
1T Il not necessary 10 go around tho
world To learn something new. said 4
sun-hrowned traveller In the rooms of
the Geographical society
THE other day | accompanied Col
onel Bronson, or Brooklyn. to 4 funeral
out in Jersey. You know that Long
Islaunders have prejudice against New
Jersey and every thing ia IL The
mosquitoes we're pretty bad NJ the
funeral. and while the Colonel stood
among the weeping friends NJ the grave
could see the mosquitoes boring into
him and his lips moving mot In prayer,
however As we were crossing the
ferry on our way home his unspolSen
opinions OF New Jersey aud lis mo.
squitoes came 10 the surface aud
were expressed moro vigorously than
eloquently. The substance of his ad-
iectives was that New Jersey was
the worst place for mosquitoes in the
Union. and he would rather live at thu
North Pole than be bitten 10 death In
New Jersey. That made me laugh. and
astonished the Colonel by assuring
him that the further north one goes the
more mosquitoes he will find In fact.
they become positively dangerous
around the Arctic Circle"
Here reporter who had been listcn-
Ing asked for particulars
Resnming his conversation, the trav-
eler said; Il mean what | say. As
yon go north the size and number of
mosquitoes Increase. Along the Red
River of the North steamboat hands
and officers and passengers are forced
to wear sort of hoop-slSirt netting
over their heads and neclVs 20 prevent
being poisoned by mosquitoes When
the cows are MIXED in the corrals the
men burn smudges and make clouds OF
smoke 10 keep of the insects, or the
milking could not be done at all
s'Sir George Back, i'm his report on
the discovery and voyage To the mouth
of the river that bears his name. says
that the sailors and Indians compris-
ing his party were almost driven back
by the myriads OF mosquitoes that dis
puted his passage northwRrd through
the entire length OF the river to whero
it empties into the Arctic basin. Sir
John Franklin. DIR. Richardson and
| Captain Mackenzie say the same in
reference 20 their Journeys ia the
Arctic regions of North America.
SchwatiR, in his report on the raft
| Journey he made down the Yukon
river, in Alaska. says that mosquitoes
have been known 10 drive reindeer
/ from an entire district and that gris-
| Ely bear have been found stung 10
death by these terrible insects, which
entered their nostrils in swarms and
attacked them where they could not
brush them away.
''Whalers in North Hudson Bay say
that on n still summer day in that vast
region life is not worth living on shore.
The lee side of every object win be
black with mosquitoes. The natives
| have 10 wear cloths around their heads
with an opening in front barred with
| 6ne strands of whalebone. In the
ioor Of each tent is kept a smudge fire
| that fills the tent and ewes with smoke
until what with mosquito bites and in
/ iamed eyelids sleep is impossible. SO,
too. in Northern Siberia. travellers and
hunters have to wear calico curtain
around their heads with a horse-hair
. window in front to admit air and allow
them TO see the way. The curtain is tC
protect them from mosquitoes and sun
/ burn from the suns direct rays and
the reflection from the snow. No, sir,
New Jersey is not the worst place in
the world for mosquitoes. ~ y
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