The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-21
ANACONDA NEWS.
KISSING BUG HITS TOWN
Well Known People Fall Victims
to the --latest Toy.
ALL WANT TO SEE IT
Adaptation OF an Old Time Mechanical
Device Stirs Up All Kinds OF Ex-
citemsnt-Some Who Have
Been Bitten.

n 1t is an unsuspicious little yellow pa
per, folded three times and bullying
/ little in the center. On the outside is
an inscription in red letters setting
I forth that within is a sample of kiss
4 ing bug dead" One looks at it GU
!. riously and starts to open it, when
there is a sudden whir-r-r from the in
+ side and he drops it like hot potato
or a pair of kings when the other fell
+ low shows three aces,
n The whir-r-r is only the result Of an
h old. old mechanical toy. 1t is created
4 by a bit of wire bent horseshoe shape,
I the ends being connected by a rub
NJ Der having a bit of cardboard in the
N center. The rubber band is wound up
X tight by turning the cardboard. When
the paper containing the contrivance
is partly opened the pressure on the
band is released and whir-r-r goes the
cardboard
If one knew this he would be pre-
pared for it, but usually he does not,
and when he opens the paper expect
ing to see a dead kissing bug the noise
\ makes him believe he's struck a live
one.
4 tin Drug companys store the other
4 day. where Manager Harrison had
carefully baited a kissing bug of this
variety and laid it on the counter. An
irreverent young man outside the
counter carefully touted the physician
against the package. kissing bug
said he, carelessly looking at the pack
age.
e. They've had quite time with kiss
&ing bugs in the East said the doctor.
They are a peculiar poisonous insect.
as / understand, that attack the MEM
brane covering the lips"
y Here's one" said Mr.. Harrison,
pointing to his pet
rs that SOP" said the doctor, pick
ing it up. Il should like to see one.
q AS l was saying" he continued. be-
ginning to open the package, they at
tack the wow!'' and the doc
I tors right leg went up in the air and
hands dropped. He pursued his sci
entific investigations no further.
Under Sheriff Morgan placed one
day or so ago on the desk of Sher-
iff Conley. inscription up. The sheriff
entered, seated himself and grabbed
the package. kissing bug, eh?' said
he. TN just take a look at -----
shoo"' The sheriff's chair went SPIN
ming back from the desk, the sheriff
hands famed away imaginary legiens
of poisonous kissing bugs and the sher-
IFS mustache ceased to droop and
stood out straight.
who put that adjective blank dash
thing here?" he queried, and the echo
answered who" for there was NO one
in the immediate vicinity capable of
answering.
Down at Mulligan & Dooley's some
one produced the yellow paper kissing
bug yesterday afternoon. Before it
could be opened a brawny smelterman
seized it, saying, "A kissing boog. is
ut? Sure. an OH show ut to Bird
get; she's been crazy to see wan O
thin tngs." and dashed out the door
and around to his cabin to show it to
his devoted better half.
Presently from the cabin there came
a wild yell as fearsome as if the
banshee had appeared. 1t was follow
ed by the voices of two persons, one
male and explanatory and one female
and accusing, talking fast and together.
The female voice had the best of it.
kissing boog We call ut? Oil kissing
boog you, We spalpeen. YEN play yer
dirthy barroom thricks on me. will
yez? Take that - whack: IAN that
another whack: IAN - but Pat
made his escape and came running to-
ward the waiting crowd to turn the
walls of his wrath upon its members
and incidentally to escape from the
wrath behind him.
Deputy County Clerk Healy is the
proprietor of one of the bugs. He in
PRODUCED it into the court house with
telling effect. Constable Val Shebat
had three yesterday, but lost all three
through borrowing on the part of his
victims. A girl friend of his was among
these victims. She had a package Of