The evening world., 1894-09-03
TOO DRY FOR FLEAS.
Msssra Pule1 & Go. Desert the
Beaches and Come to Town.
Their Jumping Habits Are Being
Emulated by All Classes.
Millionsires and Yellow Dogs Are
Equally Delicate Morsels.

The fieas that have rayaged Harlem,
Brooklyn and other parts Of the greater
New York the past week have de-
scendedt upon the city to its very heart
II must. be confessed. No consideration
of pride or commercial greed should
oppose a widespread admission of the
visitation. New York is in state of
plague, or siege, or whatever may be
the best way to put 1t, from fieas. Let
all the. world. then. that objects to fieas
put up: a. rigid quarantine, and put 1t
up high, as this particular flea Is a
: Jumper of power and development.
The frst intimation that was received
of the impending pest was a small and
feeble complaint from Harlem about a
week ago. Then 1.-The Evening World"
was forcibly drawn, three days ago, to
consider the leaping, biting plague of
East New York.
The swarms were spreading evidently
more from the Brooklyn nucleus than
from Harlem stock, which seems to
have been drawn sporadically and va
gravity from some small mysterious
source that has nothing to do with the
present supply.
Brooklyn may be fairly considered as
the nesting place Of this fea-Brooklyn
and It's environs-for 1t probably came
, from the sands Of New Utrecht and
Graveaend.
The wicked flea, when no man pur-
| sueth, Is daisy Of Industry, without
any particular reverence for Labor
lDay. He never suspends business.
Pile chooses his location in the rosy
hawn,. the blazing noontide. the dewy
eve and the dark and slumbrous night,
B65 circles Of the sun in every year.
He In not particular about the forma-
ion upon which he sinks, as he has a
milling process that makes low-grade
and refractory ores as rich in returns
Is bonanza pocket. He prowls through
eambric alike. With happy i indiffe r.
ence TO surroundings. He is bound to
Ftrike pay gravel whether the vein is
Polling rich in caramels and ice cream,
pr is drift from fountain-head of
8nixed ale and cold potatoes. The ten
her infant in the cradle and the tough
TRAMP. yellow dog are all one and the
IAN insect belonging to the genus
way that Noah Webster describes him
IN his family relations, and continuing,
the same authority says:
"Fleas are destitute of wings-mais II
arrive tout de meme but have the
rover Of leaping energetically-nine.ba
bite Is poisonous to most persons. The
human flea, abundant in Europe, is not
known In America, where the dog flea
takes Its place"
This last remark shows that there is
limit to the wisdom cf even a diction-
airy writer. The flea that has just settled
upon the metropolis In a human flea,
to judge him either by his face and fea-
lures or the habitat that he chooses
He is, also the log flea on the same
grounds. There isn't any difference. He
ing Tpwser try to tear his ear off with
his best hind foot or Is driving Towser 9
master to language that imperils his
SOUL
The cause and source of the present
visitation are not yet clearly defined
but will doubtless be fully explained
when the scientific mind takes cogniz.
ance of 1t. Many people say that the
long drought has driven the feas from
the parched sands Of the neighboring
beaches to seek sustenance elsewhere.