The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-03
THE COMMON FLY An Industrious Female Lays About 3,Ooo,ooo Eggs
 Few Females. IT HAS MANY EYES Some Timely Facts and Spcculations Concerning This Interesting
 Creature.

"The common domestic fly" said a man who is no scholar hut has man aged to pick iip many Interesting facts lis altogether too common and too de- mestc She Is one of the most in- toresting animals says the Deseret News.
 You don't mean animals, lis- tener broke in; "a fly is not an ani- maj Y"
 "1'hen she must be 2 vegetable or mineral said the first speaker Gall her whichever you please, but she ls one of the most interesting creatures extant.
 An industrious female fly lays about 3,000,0O0 eggs, There are no indolent flies and few males The fly does not set after laying, if she did she would be retired from her wonted activity during long or shorter periods of in- cubation. Her eggs hatch without motherly attention, and it is seldom that one fails to hatch
 fThc fly has SO many eyes, the man who Is no scholar went on, that sho can see in all directions at once with out turning her head or rolling her eyes That's why 1t Is so hard to hit her. A ny-time poet sang.
 Now doth the little busy ny
 Buzz in a fellows hair,
 But try to smite her hip and thigh
 And, 10 she isn't hcre.
 "1he intelligence of flies Is an inter estng and exasperating study. One of the ordinary ways of trying to kill flies is to fold a newspaper in the shape of heavy flat pad and whack at them with 1t when they are sitting still
 Now, the fly Is familiar with the scientific fact that If she sits perfectly still the descending paper will make an air cushion in front of 1t that % times out of 100 will protect her from mentarIly stuns her and she falls to the floor apparently dead, but in a few minutes she has recovered and Is again on the job,
 That's why when you strike at a fly hard enough 10 spatter the butter all over the walls she Is able to re- appear so quickly on the rim of the sugar bowl.
 When out, not for good but merely ! for the fun of tantalizing you the fly knows when she has had enough Then she sits down on a dark spot in the carpet and watches you prancc around 1 the room looking for her on the walls.
 "A very good way to catch flies is to | distribute fly paper and platters ot l poison on the tables and window sils | No matter how thick the files are where | this is done, their number will be quick l ly reduced You can easily prove this ! hy counting the flies you have caught | II Is great comfort when there arc a few million flies in the air and more coming, tO count up your catch, and 1 know that la dozen or so will never poster you any more.
 This method of getting rid of flies 1 is often employed in restaurants II was the method used in a railroat | restaurant where a passenger hurried l in for retreahment, glanced along tht display of pies and said;
 " Give me piece of this huckle berry,
 waiter girl waving her hand over th, pie; it's custard'
 |" Tip with the lark" Is a Doetlcal cx presson for early rising. Up with th' fly would be stronger if lesa poetir The lark doesn't compel you to get m but Inc fly does. Besides. the lark Is aA English bird but the ny is a bird tha knows no nationality If the nv woul, go away and lei you sleep tll inc larl get up you would have lcss cause fo COmUatnt
 When we were children we wer
 taught to belicy that nys foot wa
 wonderful part of crcatlon-tha