Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-06-07
Samples for the asking.
AN IMMIGRANT FROM LAPLAND.
He Is Omnipresent and Makes Himself at
Home Everywhere.

He Is Omnipresent and Makes Himself at
Home Everywhere.
1t will doubtless prove a gratifying
piece of information about an old and
familiar and almost friendly enemy,
especially should you find him i'm
bedded in your breakfast roll, that
he halls from Lapland originally.
The entomologist states that, al
though the cockroach is a universal
feeder, it prefers wheat flour to all
other articles of diet. 1t is therefore
a common pest about balleshops, and
Notwithstanding the utmost care on
the part of the baker it sometimes
becomes imbedded in the dough and
baked in the loaf" This rather un
expected defense of the baker on the
part of the entomologist is not aSap
peasing to your displeasure as the
the scientist would doubtless have it
as you pluck the plump and well pre-
served ectobia from your roll and de
posit it ON the edge of your plate as
though it were a raisin.
The entomologist confesses to Il
neglect on the part of science of
this family blattadse, to which the
cockroach belongs. However, he
mentions list of 900 different species
classified in the British museum.
He otherwise defends them by pro
nouncing them the best of household
scavengers, as they devour all small
yermin i'll their usual nightly patrol.
The eggs of this insect, he informs
us, are all laid at one time and are
incased in purselike pod. The egg
cases are of the same elastic material
that covers the bodies of the insects
themselves, and when the young es-
cape it closes again, and the empty
shell is left behind her.
Ergo, when you discover one of
these shells, instead of congratulate
ing yourself that an old patriarch
has been gathered to his fathers,
know for Il certainty that new gen
Grafton has just been launched upon
your pantry sh ives.
While the entomologist classities
the cockroach and makes synop-
sis of him the unscientitic but OBJ
servant head of the culinary depart
ment becomes on even closer terms
of intimacy with him. Friendly,
fleet footed and prolific, self preser
walton is deep rooted in his nature,
and shyness, suspicion and rare in
telligence are his qualifications.
He abhors solitude, and when the
| family moves to be rid of him, as
families do in the springtime, he
moves with them. Perchance but
one of him moves, but he rallies
whole armies to the new field. He
is like the wind that listeth-you
cannot tell whence he cometh MOI
whittier he goeth. He is perpetual
Other chronological domestic attach
ments, more or less active, fragrant
and annoying, manifest a disposition
to absent themselves for an occasion
al season, but the cockroach is lik,
the poor, with you always.
He intrudes on the sacred recesse
of the larder and refrigerator III,
swims in the cream soup, finds deatl
sweet in the sirup pitcher, bakes il
the bread, scalds in the soup tureen
is mangled in the pancake bate
and hides in the coffeepot. He gam
bols over the best china and hold
conventions in the flour barrel. H
shuns surreptitious traps and tidbit
planned for his destruction. and witt
unparalleled wisdom dodges out o
sight on the approach of the enemy
The domestic department knows hin
as he is-knows him through hvini
conflicts waged winter and summe
and could contribute facts of a pei
sonal nature to the aspect he bear
to the Observation-Disclosures Sun