Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-10-04

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"Tbcs moy well call this pacc stony
gfratfori. d.. sud to have remarked an
unconscious rvs Na.auroD Of tine last
r.r,r.tuU. d. iar WIS never moro ter
rihiv bitten o., A@s m nay Aie what
.f.lIy .t~aloll could have bad to DO
with uc irritating little insects In Quos-
tom the Involuntary hum0rls' dld not a.
plail tuI thg ludIcrJH7 "uon sclul-
tor in- almost ga seed into protcrb.
still l.ss. on tine face OF it at least.
.l,ald iuc pleasant watering place
of SoutI-ea. boy porismoutu, bee
notnrions for an abundance Of
Acas Tho breezy seaside resort,
with l,s hcBch forming $50 highly agreea-
blea um.uadc when the Og guns are
100. laundering away from the adjacent
foris Is to "a large oNtont the residence
OF retired military and naval officers and
thmr families, with whom the virtues Of
military and naval cleanliness are tradl-
tonal Suck md 'pn. spruce and
trlru. arc the Southsea villas, nnd many
of them look go thoroughly lmmacu-
late as almost 10 tmhodY the idea
which the Dutch pastor IN his
sermon cave Of Heaven az a place
where IL was all washing and scrub
Iiug. polishing and hccswaXlng. sweep
inc ami dusuug from Monday morning
until Saturday night, for ever and ever.
Looking nt the bught prestige which the
cheerful Hampshire waterlug-plac0 has
Iona SINCE gained, II is somewhat mortl-
f,iup 10 find that the Portsmouth County
Court has mst hcen the scene Ot IA sut
brought by the lsndlajy of II house IN
Osborne road. Southsea, against gen
tlcman from london described AS a
bank director. for fifteen Pmncas, beng
one months rent for furnished prem
ises let hy the phinuH from the
beginnng of June 10 the end OF
Aurust. 80 WAS shown that the
defendant had seen the house while 1t
WIS being cleaned under the direction
of the plaintiff. lie duly signed IN
agreement of tenancy but at the end
of five weeks he left the house on
the p,aiuhTa hands, and the second
months rent had not been paid. For
the defence ii WAS pleaded first, that
She draius were not quite as they ehould
have been but principally that there
were 20 many t,eas. This allegation Was
met bv the counter statement that II
there were, indeed, ileas in Os-
borne rvaa they must have beeu
brought there by the defend
ant and has family from another
house a, Soushsea Beach. We have q
dim suspicion of having heard some
thing resembling this statement before
in TACT At Is au hypothesis very common
among the propretors of lodgng-houses'
both inland aud marine, and may be
claes,d as Of close kindred 80 the theory
that a single cat Is capable OF eating d
ponnd and half 81 salmon and the best
mart oil q shoulder of mutton, 70 say
nothing Of breaking a whole tea-serylce
If Mini0n's china, IN the space OF twenty
four hours
When the case was tried the solicitor
for tue defendant made tho most OF the
contention that the sanitary arrange
ments at Osborne road were detective
hut II was en- the question OF the tleas
that the learned gentleman came out
most strongly. lie declared that the IN
scots were 50 numerous and so trouble
some that the family did not get half al
hours deep for three nights, and that III
despair AZ tins incessaut annoyance, they
had been compelled 10 leave the house.
IL is almost wonder that, as wind-up,
the solicitor did not quote the lrisll
orator who declared that he was attack
ed say, at Stoay Strattord-by such
an incalculahle multitude OF fleas
that had they only been unanimous
they would have had the blankets OF
him. one OF the witnesses for the de-
fence was daughter Of the bank direc-
tor. and IL Was 10 the fleas that this lady
aserlbed her continuous aud dolorous in.
somnia while in Osborne road. The
geatle-womsn caught no fewer than five
ileas in the course OF three nights, but
said that legion u her prosecutors re.
NAMED uncaptured. SO fearfully bitten
was she that at last, in sheer desperation,
she wrote TO her papa imploring him K
surrender the tenancy OF the house
and IN postscript she described
herself as the most accomplished
nea.hun,er ont With all due 70
spect for the proficiency claime(
by this Diana Of the feas, We mus
point out that five fleas IN three nights il
very poor "bsg" for swarm cor
ner Of feaS 20 be sure there arr
somes modes OF flea catching so subtle 81
10 be practiced only by thorough ex
perts. One way is TO have large hip
bath fall OF boiling water by the aide o.
.ou. had. xou than la Darfectlv auiel