Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-06-06
"ELY LOO" WITH A VENGEANCE.
How Scientist Did Little Investigation
and Also Did Party of Friends.

and Also Ola Party OF frlenub'
The fat man with the stubby mus
tache and the tall, blond man with the
green tie smoked silently for some
time. Over near the bar two young
men were contributing OF their sub
stance to one of those cigar machines
where the nickel you drop in the slot
zigzags down among the steel pins In
way which makes you think you are
going TO win box of Henry Clnys,a and
then gives you the laugh and drops out
of sight
"Thats worse than fly loo" said the
fat man after he had watched the game
awhile.
"What's fly LOOP" asked the man with
the green tie
"Oh, it's little game we used to
play in British Guaiana when was
on the sugar plantation. Most OF the
white people down there are English,
and draw poker is altogether too Amer
lean for them. Besides, it's so hot
good part of the time that there's no
fun in anything that keeps you NOV
ing. So they play fly loo You sit
around table with a cool drink handy
and cheroot. Everybody puts a lump
OF sugar on the table in front Of him
and throws shilling into the pot,
Then everybody takes drink and
smokes"
"But where does the game come lnF"
"Im getting to that Nobody does
anything till fly lights on lump OF
sugar. Then the man who owns that
lump takes the pot Everybody antes
another shilling and takes another
drink and waits for another fly II
two flies light on twolumps vt the same
time, it's jack pot, and If two flies get
onto the same lump at the same time
it costs another shilling all around.
It's great game for n hot country,
You don't have to think any or say
anything or do anything; and you can
lose enough in an evening to make it
interesting"
The man with the green tie smoked
thoughtfully few minutes, and then
said: Don't believe I'd like game
like that It's nothing but chance
no room for skill or science
II used to think the same way, " said
the fat pan, "but ] got over II, That
was the winter the professor was with
us. He came from New England and
was collecting bugs He was quiet,
pious looking chap, sort OF ministerial
in his talk, But he used to sit around
the cafe good deal evenings, and was
always watching the game through
his big spectaeles. One night after he
had souirmed around on his chair a
while he asked us if he might come in.
We said yes, of course, and he pulled
out lump of sugar and put up his
shilling,
'Well, sir, it wasn't ten seconds be-
fore two flies bumped their heads to'
gether getting on TO his lump We all
put up another shilling apiece, and the
professor raked them in, In less than
a minute the same thing happened
) again, and then the flies came in car
riages to get onto that lump of sugar.
They were three deep all over it, till 1t
looked like prize blackberry You
couldn't keep EN- off with club, and
the old man cleaned out the whole lot
t of us.
2 1.-THE professor was gone the next
] morning, but he left note for one OF
4 the crowd that said, as near as can
: remember;
e "'T have to thank you and your
e friends for a most charming and in
p strpetiEe evening. ! was much graft.
e fed last night at the opportunity OF
testing a little scientific theory. The
l common houseAy, or musca domestica
belongs to the family of suckers so
~ called because they suck their food
through their proboscis. When partak
@ inc of dry nutriment musca domestica
first moistens it with secretion from
. the prroboscis, So that it may be sucked
ND il liquid form. IT peenrred to me
. 'tat possibly by relieving nausea DO
'se necessity for moistepin2
: mestica o. :, N'- TO feed hegc
fl - would he A~-,
> rapidly and agreeably, | there En-. >
/ ventured slightly to moisten the luInL
of sugar had with me before placing
It on the table. l may say that WA
= charmed with the immediate and qn
mistakable demonstration OF the accu
racy of my theory. Entomology is
' delightful study"
you see" continued the tat man
Q ''there's more science to fly loo thai
1 vou'd think. Here, waiter, bring u
two more of the same. IN. Y. Herald