The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-17
.pF FIF.NDISH MOSQUITO.
.oor WEIGH DESCRIBES HIS
BIZ LITER DEPRAVIi4-

LITTER DEPRAVii
n,ts yellow Fever-Neans OF
BE ! i1--,J',atioa-Tsrdy Justice 70 ene
os,ake Fesder. r,r,s,
has bsen investigated he
The nlO 'sqE-,irai into. He has been looked
las Pc. al points. What his business Is anu
h' Il ID - ~ nav be eIterminated-lo' IL uaS
bo" u fonnd that he has any lntentioh 70
'o' ossl sa ms, and a consequent rign' 20
benen' - IA Va been made the subjects Oh
xl''e ~. The result fills book wnicn VIII
esearcn' ~ -. vaek by the Messrs. APP
p.eroa. ;..a If printing volume
.sa mosquito was prompteu oy
about VIC - TO merely make his cussed-
q VirIuou' -. Of record or whether 1t touno
pess 10, an uurighteous spirit OF revenge
birth III - ,a,;alv severe and long-coa-
htter d. y bv the insects cannot be
us1 a ;-orTyav' in the early summer OF
ated. aanabarf II. Lamborn lssue1 clrcu-
So W, ssr1,rging entOmologl'uS oL Ile
Of to the - nTizes for the best essays
eountry or.gInal Investigations lnto Tue
EescEloLhs Growing the mosquito anu che
ne5 zoos u The forthcoming book contains
bous9 ny, - those to whom the prizes were
fne - The first prize was gwen " MS;
o aaron and the second was ~ Nc
rsan Mr.. Archibald u "o0A' 0"- -'-''
kVilliam B .ntenmulIeL. oa1laI a svmno-
Inc "oi tha subject of mosquitoes, In
Flum' a. az. Rantenmuller appears as the &C
WHICH =. ~ 80 ;osect. Mr.. Weeks as DEFENDER
cuseF ". " VIZ aaron as one who holds lnter-
and Va laws A great many people, al
nleGIaO ~,,,,-a from personal experience Unat
reau1 90 ara undesirable associates, Will
nosqli, .isa3 70 find out what really serious
DC 81. ~ 80 The human race the insect is ana
eneIuy Las haan-the insect IS found as
sass;i among the geological remains Oh Ioi
~ OoT', aces apparently never at any psri-u
Ioving beel extinct, and AWAY . having
been Industrious 5o,,h, chat Tho
!.',,;to ;s CAPABLE of communicating
r;sdu The fact that if it is allowed to re-
49, 1ong enough to draw out sufnclent
ii''n IF blood but little irritation re-
Ina;ns seems to prove this, but 1t Is also
195 ,bat il ia CAPABLE of innoculating man
is arI with msiarial disease. Lewis has
sonnd twenty female mosquitoes out OF one
bnndred and forty to be infected WIN
5smatozoa. and Mcleod, commenting on
This states that the diseases arising from
6Iaria in the tlood are very serious.
DR. Finley OF Havana asserts tnat IL Is MS
belief that the mosquito Is au asshs ~
snresdinq yellow fever. He says that the
insect. after puncturing the skin OF the
vallow fever patient, retains some OF toe
germs of the disease and that he communl
Gates these to the next person he visits. 80
snra is he that the mosquito is the active.
if not the only, agent for the dissemlna Ion
of vallow fever That he holds that the dis
eas4 cannot exist where the mosquito does
ma. flourish In corroboration of thls opln-
ion, he says that in the summer OF 1888
mosquitoes were quite scarce IN havana,
but were very numerous II the autumn,
and that IN thu summer there were few
yellow fever cases, but in October and NO
vember they increased considerably.
Mr.. H. Hammond in Science, appears to
confirm this view. "In 1889" says Mr..
Hammond, during a yellow fever cpl
demic in Augusta Ga, no cases originated
at S0m9rville, neighborlng suburb among
the sand hills There were no mosquitoes
at Somerville, which was approached by
rather crcuitous route from Augusta. Some
years after, straight. broad road was
built through the swamps directly to the
sand hills cisterns we're also built, and
mosquitoes appeared and became an in
telerable pest. During the yellow fever
epidemic of 1854 a number of cases origi-
mated at the sand hills Astounding with
mosquitoes"
The book will serve one good purpose at
least. 1t will do justice to that much-ma-
hgned insect varlously known in different
parts Of the country as the dragon fly,
mosquito hawk, devils darning needle"
and snake feeder." 1t will place him in a
better light for, instead of deserving the
obloquy which has universally been cast
upon him, he appeurs to be entitled to
much conslderation as the insect relied upon
10 destroy the mosquito.
VI nave read says the Rev. DR.. McCook,
OF sc1ool-t memory serves me trul :, it
was situate in that highly-developed center
OF American civilization, New York CITY
whose session was broken up by the advent
OF an innocent dragon fly through an open
WINDOW, An alarm raised by one scholar
M passed through the entire room: "A devils
E earning needed A DEVILS darning needle ?
Ine omlnous phrase, plped in the shrill
quaver OF terrified childhood, alarmed the
.eacner, and the agitation became so geu-
era mat the school had to be dismissed as
On act Of humanity"
>, me french, who do not appear to have
sue l0ar OF the insect which we manifest,
a., ~ uu0 u5InOlSeiIe. DrdgOOn
n ne are harmless enough, and, for that
n aaa's9l, pretty enough, but can they really
t tIs up oil tne mosquitoess Upon this point
were t are very opposite opinions.
bo-r a u LUMBER OF years ago. says Dr. Lam
Snna,io ~nlie engaged IN building the Lake
fS r.p' and mississippi railroad, made
+ac tuouI excursions in the capacity of d.
. .6SsoE and treasurer of the company
haaG u & tae swampy forests around the
sum- - t sle great lake. Sitting in camp at
s.stltude, looked through nv mo.onito ve;1
a. lne Dragon fes that collected in the onan
f paces among the pine trees. They darted
t iom SIDE to side, like swallows in a ,naado,Y
tnrr tI amazing rapidlty; and at every
.u.u' tle natives assured me. a mosorito
ns assa from troubling. After ward han
soueu 70 observe all entomologist faadincr !.
siasGoh ny that had eaten thirty hoSsa
ISM vtos IN rapid succession without lessenino ;te
nst" aIF. What thought could he mora
thai "a Vnan the one that came to me
Niss al ~; artIhclal multiplication of dragon
mlSquito pest" '''- q Ali'iga0ion OF the
oapt. Z. F. B. Macaulav of tho 1rn;+oa
the , snn aIln has given his experience IN
AbraHa41IIl1 OF 1885 he was on duty Of For+
tbictaaanuL4 Lincoln in Dakota. To show the
the nairbh u The mosquito at that time in
he saw, so uood OF Fort Abraham Lincoln
end Of H. On the target range during tha
| coulS I -N, and about three weeks in JuIJy
boots~s,a3gI stay unless | had on hea w
thick t rrUu DIS are used out there for ridinc
thick cao oHSefs, leather gauntIets and a
and COLA ru e. nez tucked under nv helmat
Tbr'tlar OF my tunic - -ly neiine'