New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-31
LIGHT on THE KISSING BIG.

TIE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND TIE ART
MUSEUM ARE AT WORK ON HIM
7, has been remarked more than once Of late that
che lorg-suHer!rs people had his year escaped
what has been known ever since newspapers were
invented as "rhe Silly season" The Dreyfls case
has beer blessing the Bamaqo t07 has been
boon tha way ir tie Philippines the question ~
expansion and ne Dewey celebration are things 20
no thankful for There has been no more room IN
the papers f0- urn.rgated rubbish than there USE
aUy is .u tho winter Early in the summer. how
ever attempt 90 start the silly season was made
With rho -1-esUed kissing bug its subject and
silly season over throve on anything sl.ier
The Tribune Denounced The Melan0lestes 1l-!pes
IN al the terms % rvectve that lt could think Of
ar the time ~ Gre FIRST appearance and since then
r. has ro- thought it necessary 10 devote So much
attention % the Dug as other papers have seen III
70 do rreferring 20 its space for rs exception
ally accurate accounts % Dreyfls and Ramapo
The M@.auoiestes picipes. or some chronological
sle. ime0 ny other has now. however. been discov-
cred ay the Police Department. and that fact makes
70 worthy 20 additional attention from scientific
point view For the fact that me Melanclestes
r.-ioe- or any other malefactor has been appre-
norded by the police shows thattt has neither poii--
ieaI influence nor intelligence. and thus naturasts
learn something Of the mug that they did not know
before
7. was in Central Park that . policeman was
brought 90 The Tribune Office last night by an
automobile covered with blood and foam The
policeman vas one ser 20 guard some seats 90 the
Park reserved for women and children. but the
kissing bugs drove them all away. and t1e police
man was i-r, 20 guard men and boys while the
kissing bugs hit him After they had bitten MIN
several shines h. caught one Of them and ex-
srrt-e4 IT, with tle help OF man from the Art
Museum You would know that be- vas from the
Arr Museum and NOT from the NatLral History
Museum from Tho highly developed element of
imagination in t1e description brought oy me
faded autornob II is also 90 De noted iAat ms
--l..o account = me hug differs as widely from
al previous accounts AS the description OF any
49, niece OF irlqllty when given oy the police
5ierors from the description q the same thing by
d Mazet detective
The policeman describes the sting as shaIp ana
oa.uf4l u has always been SAID heio'e ,"4' '"e
.., could not be- felt. and thar 30 vas only aiter
~. time that the pain and the swelling came
7.,e tig ft is said resembles a lobster. ana also
-..er7hIes q crampus This reminds one % Hump
-, Duupry's description Of 'sllihy toVes' a. nells
~ badgers and Ike corkscrews Doloiiess ne
ltastrg bug also gimDes soH'"-'t 'h' ."'
".l,.t.,. ,o,e" - * added that me hug ha, large
.... from which g. emits gr"cnish light u is
lima seen that tae bus resembles d ioiae s'"iI'h
r,,,-tn4rrucre the bug has no wings an" SD me
r,i,oe Department and the man from the museum
= ro+ see now g. gets about "hen thtFe Ir "ilo-
d, me way Well the Police Department l's'"
g.. 80 wings and SET 30 is never troubled Win
"' .- WIZ cannot the bug 80 whatever the
' r,,sr.r,oot does? The Police Department
..a also remember that few years ago there
Is a rather vulgar song about another poisonous
insect which had no wings az ALL ana yer mar"
aged arrive
re soon to make Systematic hanl f'f A'' SING
- d., the Park for scientific purposes. ana IL
- ,ba, they Will ind al there are OF them