Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-11
MANY-EYED MONSTERS.
And They Sleep With Their Feet Il
Yet Not Upon Their Blacks.

oh! those detestable fiies!" eXclaim-
ed the neat housewife, and the poor
little insect which was buzzing away
on her clean window was speedily
paper rolled into ball at one end
with the other forming the handle,
says the Boston Herald.
1t did the work for the fly and did
not break the window.
Where in the world do they come
from? Screens at the window and
every door in the house. How do they
get in?"
'Confound that fly" growled old
winkS" after dinner in the darkened
and quiet best parlor. Seems as if
when there wasn't but one fly in the
house it always lighted on my head.
There! take that" and he made des-
perate 1unge at the little tOrmentOr,
only to miss him and see him fly calmly
away with a meditative and eXaSper-
ating hum.
Still growing, old Baldhead put a
paper over his head, and thus out
whiting the fly dropped off to sleep.
1t is Enthusiastically fly time. The
almanac tells us so, and to the bucolic
mind lit must be so if the almanac
says So"
One knows it is a fact, for they can
be seen swarming in pyramids near
every garbage heap, in the markets.
To x,inx in
the confectioners': yes, can even be
found ni"dsya'lym ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
found ''in my lady's chamber" which
is very apt to disturb her slumbers
and arouse her as would ,Ae lark at
peep Of dawn (say about $3.50 a. NO.
not with a sweet melodiOus call, but
with persistent buzz and by crawling
manner that sleep is effectually van
ished for the time.
The question where flies come from
is asked many times during the sum-
mer. 1t is always a mystery to the
woman who has her house well screen
ed how even one Of the little pests can
get in.
were probably housed the year before
when, in the autumn, vigilance was
relaxed, and perhaps door Or window
! left ungaurded.
! With the instinct with which nature
Warm house, into cracks not percep.
tible, and there they hibernate. There
too, they lay their eggs, LIT to each fly
/ IL, Joo +I,o ~
the race; and so when the first warm
days come they surprise us by buzzine
away on the windows or around the
table.
In the meantime the eggs are hatch
ing, and by fly time" they come fortl
in SWarmS.
Sometimes in the dead of winter q
ing place by the deceptive warmth Of
the furnace-heated house. He seems {
harbinger of spring, and perhaps one
may be inclined to pet it a bit Dom
do it. KILT and thus put an end to ;
prospective future generation of flies
They are natural scavengers. Their pur
pose in life is to consume various sub
stances which are thrown out from th'
ces which are thrown out from the
human body, by articles Of food and by
almost every animal and vegetable
PRODUCED when in a state of change
These substances are given out in sucl
small quantities they are imperceptiblt
to common observers and not remov
able by ordinary methods of cleanli
ness, even in the best kept rooms.
When a fly persists in crawling Owe
ones face it is merely taking care OF
the particles of dead matter thrown of
through the pores and which helps tt
keep the complexion clean. So it il
really doing good while it annoys