The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1892-07-30
ATTACKED By LEECHES.
X marxable Plague That Visited
San Franc SO Tenement,

san franc so lenem T..
People in the Western addition have
slept soundly for years in ignorance OF
the fuct that at any moment Il plague
worse than the locusts OF Egypt might
come crawling into open windows and
under loosely hung doors-a plague OF
fierce blood hungry lecchcs. says the
San Francisco Exam :ner.
There is an extensive leech farm at
112J Bush street where 10 uGJ of the
repulsive monsters are confined await
ing purchasers / he farm is one OF
two in the nited States the other be-
ing in New York and there at times
so 900 leeches sluirm ceasaless-
ly about over and through swamp
: mucS. constantly searching for some
hapless animal that chance may have
mired down to furnish IL feast for the
insatiate annelidal.
The leecheS at the San Frar cisco
farm b o.le away the other night and
oversprcad the ncignb boring tenement
in very short time. Hundreds of
them crawled up the walls and tried
every window and crevice seeking an
entrance because OF some instructive
knowledge that in the house they
could find succulent pasturage upon
the forms Of slceDerS who rested with
out knowledge of the tire tteninr
danger
But a mnorit, fou Id their way into
the sleeping rooms-not more than a
thousand-but even that number of
snaky green sh black. creepy worms
suiiiccd TO tcrrify the occupants almost
F,lt l,
ton of the lccches and awoke to find
themselves fcstooncd with the ugly
products of the Swampy ooze OF Bor
Gcaux
] he first 10 awaken was a young
| lady. and she was not long in an
nouncing her distress and arousing
her fellow occupants OF the house
. only 20 fad that each Of them hal for
room companions from I, score 70 hun
dreds o. the lecch $
Broom, We're savagcly piled II every
corner and under every piece Of furnl-
tue. ledc.othing was :haken and
closely examined. Lcech bites We're
dressed with soothing appl cations,
and after several hours OF activity the
household again settled down to rest.
Next morning an ex? njnation Of the
premises and those AL oining was
made ard when the lecch farm was
dl>co,e ed the secret was cut is well
as the lceches.
The worms were brought from
France. where about Bordeaux there
are wide areas 0 black light COG IN
which lccches of the iierccst sort null
4 tiply unstintcd Tho ooze fairly
hcaves with thor writings at the
season Of the year when thcy are most
active. and it is then that one OF the
cruelcs: sights possible ma DC seen
Old horses worn O"t in faithful
service are driven into the marshes.
and are soon covered with the hun Try
+ lccches. which fastcn to lips, cyciid,.
nose or any other teAdcr part, and
ang on until slutted with the lie
blood of their victim or until the
wretchcl horse wcakcns under the
drain and falls to suTocate in the
slime of the lecch GRASS.
When leeches are desired TO send TO
New York o. San Francisco men are
hired whose poverty ,ompe.s them to
accept any chan c. The men walk
Eare-.egcc i:.to the borders Of the
lcech swamps and ARE Immediately
covered by the lepuisivc craw ers, but
before they can pierce more than the
SKIN of the II en- with their sharp semi
lunar teeth they arc swept OF into
pouches from wh.ch they ;,"e
counted out into beds OF wet moss and
boxes Of their native ooZe. embedded
in which they satalv tEanan nn:ed
any distance.
Inc large leccacs. such as those Of
Japan. which reach two feet ia length
! are rot IN CO mnOn use nor are Ger
/ tain poisonous sor.s, such IL he small
black leccIes Of Australia. The thick.
fat ferco worms OF Hungar:. Sicily
and France are preferred b. rracti-
TONERS who use lecchcs and it is from
! those countries that the rest OF the
world is supplied. The san Francisco
| lcech farm is formed b.: piac ne guam
titles Of the oozo OF the Bordeaux
swamps. especially imported for e
urpose, in large boxes with tight
covers ! he lecchcs bore about
! through the muck until wantel Cor
sac. when they are counted out.
washed and disposed Of ready II bite
any living thing and hang or until
they are swollen to eight or ten times
their ordinary Sic Then they drop
OF and lie dormant until assimilation
shall have been Finished aal hunger
again aroaseS Them.
Rycn- L!vIn: Flowers.
1t is sad that two poo, Partisan
women who earn Il livelihood max
ing artificial flowers have hit upon II
process for dyeiny natural tlowers in
brilliant hues Public attention was
called to the matte by florist, who
received in IL lot Of flowers some
swcct-w ,lliams OF Il bright green color.
1t seems that one of III, WON n
pourel some paint into bowl in
which some natural flowers she was
copying hal been put in water The
ncNt day she was astouEdc.I to IN
that the flowers had assumed the hue
of the paint. Bong II wo nan OF an
in ,liring m nd !e continued cX peri
menting and succeeded i'll pro Iuuimg
Various colors never intended b.
nature but very available in at
She Immediately commenced dyc;ng
flowers for the m;lrGc,, an extended
her practice to o.hcr sorts of b.oS-
SONS, inciu ling white i.acs and came /
las The onls cp,ors en- )lotel by
her at present arc violet green and |
pink. The violet is obtained by u
ing the violet of Paris" dye. and the
other two are due to two chemical
compounds with Ion" names. one o.
which contains twelve and the other |
twenty sylIabes New Orleans lea
yune.
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