Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-03-23
POINTERS ON MOSQUITOES,
Male Is Musician. but Female Is
 Bloodthirsty.

~OlS GitS ON M MOGQOII IOES, Male Is Musician. but Female Is
 Bloodthirsty.
 When man hears for the first time that it is the female mosquito that does all the biting it makes him feel right gi2d Further comfort is afforded 0y the knowledge that the male mos- quito has probably the keenest musical sensibilities of any Of his class of in sects. He has quite 9 brush of hairs on his antennGe, ard with them he hears. Mayer stuck one of his kind on glass plate and sounded tuning forks about. When one tone was made certain hairs would yibrate while ali the others were still. Another tone woNid start another set to vibrating, and SC on. Also, if the tuning fork Eere at one side of the mosquito, the hairs on that antennae trembled most violently, so that when the male hears -er, rather, feels-the voice Of his be- loved in ore anteRnae, he wheels about so that vibration is equal in both and dles straight ahead to meet her That s about al there is to the male mos quito, though, except that he cannot bite, for the sufficient reason that he Las no apparatus with which to saw through the skin. So to speak, he has the pumps, but 10 drill. But the fe- male is thoroughly equipped for get ting through even a politicians hide. The only mystery is what possesses her to want to bite at all. How did she come by her hanRering for blood? The scientists give it ID. If she laid her eggs ill the wound, like tke carrion fly, it would be easy to answer the question, but she doesn't. If she stung to defend herself, like the wasp, it would be easy. 1t must be her brutal pas3loH for blood that prompts her to attack helpless human beings. She cannot get this craving by inheritance, for the chances are that none of her ancestors as far back as William the Eonqderor ever had a taste of human blood, and yet sit out on your front stoop Of an evening, and a mosquito, not half an hour out of the water, will make as straight for you as if she had been born for that purpose. When one thinks of the great clouds of these torments that live and die in swamps where no warm -blooded animal ever comes, for fear of being mired, one can easily believe the estimate of entomol- ogists that not one in million ever samples red biood.-Ainslee's Maga- ginA
 Christian Scientists Increase Most Rapidly
 Late statistics showing the strength of the Christian science movement are now available. The mother church .n Boston has a membership of about }5,000 It has BOA chartered branches in this country and abroad, and the total church membership is placed at 70,000. The regular church attendance is upward of 990,0o0. In 1S97 the in- crease in number of churches was A, and in 1898, 75 This church is grow Ing more rapidly than any church in the world. Its percentage of gain is very large
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