The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-15
ALTERNATING MOsQUITO-CAR.
Tho Admirable Invention Of q French Sci
entiAc Gentleman.

Tho Admirable Invention Of French Sci
enti6c Gentleman.
A man with house in the country writes
thus to the New York Evening Sun:
''Can you tell me of any really good K ind
of mosquito bar? Those used in my house
last summer were new and whole, and yet
mosquitoes would manage to get inside.
should like to go unbitten this year, If
could. JERsEYMAN.
We never saw q mosquito-bar yet that
wouldn't leak, says the editor in response.
The costliest sort of nets often let's in just
az many mosquitoes as the cheapest. In
fact, the most perfect protection ever
gained in our personal recollection was
from dingy old net with hole in the side.
Probably the mosquitoes thought that no
sane person would ever sleep under it, and
that the figure in the bed was dummy put
there with intent to deceive them. and to
make them waste their time.
But however inadequate all ordinary mos
onto bars may be, word comes from Paris
Of the invention of what may be called the
alternating mosquito-bar. This CONSISTS
a mosquito net made of extremely fine cop
per wire. woven into cloth which is strong
and at the same time almost as pl1able as
netting made of vegetable fiber. The not
ia made in the usual form of canopy. and
falls in shining folds about the bed. In
the dome of the canopy hangs q small
electric lamp Wires oonnecs me nd hs.t tSe
bedstead, and by means of converter are
carried into the lamp. =, =,
This mosouito-bar is said to work like a
charm. The lighted lamp attracts the at
tention Of every mosquito in the nelghbor-
hood. and no comes sailing over ana nenss
the button and the mosquito does the rest.
M. Scherer, the inventor, says that on the
first morning after his net had been put in
use his servant took up 2.22 litres, or nearly
three quarts, of dead mosquitoes. Their
trace of burning upon their bodies, go that
all the probabilities were in favor of their
instantaneous and painless death. NJ.
Scherer took special note of the body of
particularly large mosquito, OF that savage
species which infests Trouville q little later
in the season, and observed that his
features we're composed and regular, and
that traces of smile could be seen on
Other advantages are claimed for the al
ternating mosquito bar. The electrical On
velope is said to conduoe greatly to invigor-
atinR sleep, and the cat will never make =
second attempt to sleep on bed projected
by one Of these nets. A cat In the house
hold of NJ. Scherer's brother was heard to
veil loudly one day and was discovered by
the servants clinging to the wire curtain
with starting eye-balls and every hair erect.
When released the cat bounded swiftly
from the room, and. though coaxed with
lobster salad, steadtastly refused thereafter
to enter the electrical cham Der. II is
also stated that three days afterward NJ.
Scherer's brother was reading from an
American newspaper an account of the
Kemmler case, whom the cat bumped his
back, Kissed savagely and fed bowling from
the house. This is Interesting as showing
the intelligence of some cats, though with
out bearing on the advantages OF thealter-
mating mosquito-bar.
Arrangements are now making for the
manufacture and sale of this admirable in
yention in America. We should advise
''Jersesman'' by all means to wait and test
Mr.. Scherer's continuance before buying
any other.