The Savannah morning news., 1900-09-01

strikes that sassafras and cries: 'Pue! Lee
me OUT OF here quick Flies do not like
sassafras At all. Il ie rather an insistent
perfume. and / do not know tina, / nv
self should care for II for breakfast.
luncheon and dinner for weeks and weeks.
al through fy-slme.
Hear the conclusion OF the whole mar
ter The armies o. flies are 10 be ais
ccmhted only by attacking the base OF
supplies. II Is an obi saying that II YOU
XIII one iy. forty will come 70 the funeral.
rnere little skirmlshes with ~ poison AMI
sticky paper are useless To fence our
selves IN with screens is hardly ,vorthv
OF civilized people. II Is like living In
FORTS besieged by savagee Il h some
times said that the old-fashione1 house
heeper VINO = forever cleaning up Is 10Th
eted with Few insect visitors OF any kind
bW put up an umbrella against mo
storm OF Indignation sare to break over
my hTad oy declaring that the most scru-
i,lIous Cleanliness will not avail when
,nere Is stable near one stable will
Keep large neighborhooi amniv srn-
piled with flies daily In the season n
| y possible by throwing the manure a.
NhNn 'hey breed. into a DIT and coverin.,
u win quicklime to XIII the eggs and
laINse, bGt where one man Is thus care
iui nine hundred ana nluety-nine viii
h"l 'ake the trouble SO great has been
~" progress OF the trolley-car, the bicvcle
- we automobile that every one has
confidence In the ability Of inveptto, y.
/ give uF horseless travel b,,, 10 ~
look long and look IN vain for m. d,,, -
eowless milk. TIL then we SHAH have -
ENQUIRE with Pharoah OF the Exodus tbo
plague OF flies '"e
whoever thinks the male the s,ner,or
s.'',nai hhds no rest for the sole OF his
80, "a the contemplation OF what we in tie
SuDHtni'y OF our self-conceit. call me low
! - 'iil'is. In our general Ignorance Of
1he housefiy we do NOT know t,s, -
foolish and no-account the rnaia ~ ~.
We may reasonably infer that he ,s ss
markedly deficient as usual seeing ,b,t
ms eyes are so close together thar tho,,
/ 'ouch each other. That's always . "a
sign II YOU seeanyboiy with eyegclosa 10
sether you are entitled 10 think llttle NJ
his Intelligence ''''e VI
me ny has two sorts OF eyes. tho bi,
eY,'pouiu one 500 In a bunch on each
she OF the head. for Knocking abo,, a.,
daylight. and three simple ewes a, ~ ~,
OF the head for use In a moor Iirht -
Ing ana iire print. BeSOre going into &C.
etasles OF admiration over the creature
that mas 400 eyes on each sid. of It's head
| II might be well 10 remember thar tbox,
are not OF much account In case ~ GA
nles kept over winter. the comusound
eyes cave In and get broken. vet the Nv
seems TO get along and find food. one kind
gentleman Vanished over the aiun,,lo
eyes and plucked of the wings Of some
nies. He found that he might hold a
candle close enough TO burn the compound
/ eyes OF the fly before IL had a suspicion
that anything out OF the common was
going on. In daylight he took a knitting
needle and brought Il up in front of the
ny close enough 10 touch its antennae be-
| fore II lodged II the knitting needle
was brought up on one side. Mr.. Fly pick
| ed up his sticking plasters quite lively
Nest respectable insects have two pairs
OF wings but fly has only one pair. with
a scallop on the rear edge Of each. show
| ing that in earlier days Il had OPENERS .
| even II they went into the discard later
These scallops are called 'hahers or bal
ancers. aud II Is the theory OF some that
they help 20 steer the y. They say that
when the etarhoard baiancer Is Clipped
| on the iiy goes hard a-starboard. and vice
versa. But under each OF these scales is
a globular process. with long tube
fringed with ella believed to be sensitive
TO odors. These globular processes pump
air into the nervures or veins Of the
wings and keep them taut and stlff. for
thin though the wing may seem. il is
really double texture Perhaps clipping
on the balancer let's the air out Of the
wing and so disables II. ny is able to
saunter along through the air al the rate
OF FIVE feet a second. but when IL is IN a
particular hurry Il can 20 about thirty
iive feet a second, which Is a two thirty
gait. Its wings beat the air at about the
same rate OF vibration as the piano string
+. first line OF the treble stan: but that
Is not its only means of audible express
sion. When Il gets excited and cannot
break away from the iy-pnper Il makes
It's thorax yibrate az a higher pitch. You
have heard THAI Campanini could sing
high c with chest voice. He could not
but rs with its feet stuck fast can"