Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-09

your tel Win d remedy Tor Its eXterH2lnd-
| tion: You can give Us that remedy. no
douht. | met one Of your citizens down in
these parts not long ago. He was clawing
mosquitoes out of his eyes and ears, and
| while under the influence of a tit OF des per-
atlon he assured HE that there We're no
| mosquitoes in Fort Worth. And yet you
Fort Worth people are claiming that your
town is in Texas! If you are really in
Texas, and that man was in his right mind
he must have had land for sale. Should il
be that he told me the truth, and you are
IN need OF any mosquitoes, we might lend
You few az a very low rate Of interest.
Of course, we have 10 mosquitoes Just
here, but / know of a place few miles
away where thousand or so might be
spared on easy terms PARIS GREEN.
Hampstead, Tex.
We are entirely willing 10 write on al
most any presentable subject suggested by
our patrons, therefore
The mosquito is festive little animal.
There are more people now engaged in rails
ing this Interesting species of poultry than
most persons would be apt 10 suppose al
first thought Thousands of them are at
il in Texas and other regions. all meeting
with degree of success that is truly amaz-
ing. They seem to be making 4 kind OF
secret of the business, however; that is,
were you to ask them if they were raising
mosquitoes they wouldn't own up. owing
10 the fact, ii may be, that mosquito rails
Ing is looked upon as being something
somewhat disreputable, as Yet. Though
mosquito raising is not an industry il its III
fancy, it has not, up 10 this time, been
bOpri1nH M v.NnIllDp, 1itf1a
like raising scrub goats. Nobody dotes on
the man who has a large flock of scrub
goats on the range. for the reason that his
goats arc not invariably prone to stay about
home, and when away from home, visiting
the ueighbors, they don't always respect
the neighbors' truck patches and other iu-
aienable rights. Just 50 it IS with the mos
quito If mans mosquitoes would remain
within his own Enclosures along with his
ducks, and chickens, and geese, and other
kinds of poultry. outsiders would have no
good excuse for concerning themselves
about the extent Of his mosquito opera
lions. but mosquitoes are not made that
way. They are wonderful livestock 10
run about and hence are liable 10 engender
unpleasantneSS in neighbOrhood by fiving
over the fences of their owners and intrud-
ing themselves upon premises where they
don't belong; especially if the people of said
premises happen TO be Of that peculiar class
who don't like mosquitoes, and there are
goodly number belonging to that class III al
parts OF the country.
We ourself have no special liking for mos
quitoes. We don't raise them. Some peo-
PIE can't endure Guinea chickens on ac-
count of their noise, but for our own part
we'd rather raise flock Of guineaS than
flock Of mosquitoes. We have no NOS
quitoeS visiting Us from our neighbors III
cubators. for the reason that the people Of
Fort Worth do not raise mosquitoes az .
general crop, as the people do in many
other localities. While usually ready to
contend that Fort Worth has about every
thing needed in civilization, we must hum
bly, acknowledge that she is very deficient
in facilities for raising mosquitoes.
But we We're not always without mosqui-
toes, though we never raised them for our
self. Before moving to Fort Worth we had
a near neighbor who raised them in abuud-
ance, and having more than ne could COM
fortablr pen of night, or possibly more
than lie needed TO bcgllile him through the
tedious hours allotted 10 repoSe, he kindly
loaned US as many Is we wanted. They
found their way 10 our side of the fence in
Swarms every evening and studied or
house 10 search of weak points in the
fortress. As d result, when night had
shouldered her mantle and pinned il with
star" they got in. Once inside our house
they made themselves entirely al home,
singing to US through all the quiet hours in
tones dolorous and soothing TO the highest
degree. True there was 10 great amount
Of science displayed in their song, the notes
being rather lengthy. and the rests too far
apart, particularly the rests Of the persons
who We're listening 70 them, vet the per
Torrance lacked a great deal OF being en-
tirely uEmusiCal. IL was a sad kind of
music. Artemus Ward once wrote. Il am
always saddest when sing, and those who
hear me are sadder when am Whether
or not the mosquitoes q our room were sad
dest when they sung is more than we could
assert positively. but we well know that
their song coming from thousand or so of
them in concert must have made US feel
sadder than they could possibly have felt
But with all his sadness one soon enters
into the spirit of the thing, especially if
he is attempting TO sleep from under u
mosquito bar He begins beating time to
the music By shifting upon himself here
and there with open palm, producing sounds
not unlike that Of a fish falling upon
slab of polished marble. He is literally
''patting iuber." Never in our life have
We known a man fail to pat juber''
under such circumstauces-event the most
precise and serious deacon known to the
"a man who declines TO blow his
nose for fear that some ons will think he
is whistling), will do it every time, re-
ga,dless of public opinion.
Wonderful mosquito! Than thee no
other creature wields such an influence
over the human family Thou art the
only representative OF animated nature
qualified TO make a man stand up in com
pany and without malice or forethought,
and humbly box his own ears
But our correspondent will probably ac-
cept the foregoing as enough to say with
reference to the virtues of the mosquito.
hence it now only remains for US TO give
few plain directions for its successful pro-