Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-12-12
ALL ABOUT THE FLY
OF INTEREST PARTICULARLY TO
THE BALDHEADs.
Its Intelligence Truly an Interesting
and Exasperating study-seIieves
That Mankind Was Created
for Its Amusement.


The common domestic fly." said a
man who is no scholar but has man
aged TO pick up many interesting facts,
lis altogether too common and too
domestic. She is one of the most in
teresting animals"
You don't mean animals" listen
or broke In, "a fly is not an animal"
ihen she must be vegetable or q
mineral said the first speaker. ."Call
her whichever you please, but she is
one of the most interesting Creatures
eXtant. :..'- ~ =
AN industrious female fly laws
about 100000 eggs. There are no
indolent fies and few males. The fly
does not set after laying; If she did
she would be retired from her wonted
activity during longer or shorter
periods OF incubation. Her eggs hatch
without motherly attention, and it is
seldom that one fails to hatch.
"The intelligence of fles is an inter
estlng and exasperating study One of
the ordinary ways of trying to kill
hles is to fold a newspaper in the
shape of a heavy fiat pad and whack
at them with it 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 it that 80
times out of 100 will prevent her from
being crushed. The conclusion mo-
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
ny hard enough to splatter the butter
all over the walls she is able to reap
pear so quickly on the rim of the
sugar bowl.
When out not for food but merely
Tor the fun Of tantalizirg you the fly
KNOWS when she has had enough. Then
sne SITS down on a dark spot in the
carpet and watches you prance around
the room looking for her on the walls
"A very good way to catch flies is to
dlstribute fly paper and platters of
poison on the tables and window stills
NO matter how thick the flies are
where this is done, their number will
be quickly reduced, You can easily
prove this by counting the flies you
nave caught. 1t is a great comfort
when there few million flies in the
air and more coming to count up your
eaten and know that dozen or so will
never poster you any more.
This method of getting rid of flies
IS often employed in restaurants. It
was the method used in the railroad
restaurant where a passenger hur-
RED in for refreshment, glanced along
the display Of pies and said:
Give me a piece of this buckle
berry,
That amt huckleberry,' said the
waiter girl, waving hep hand over the
pie; it's custard.'
When we were children we were
taught to believe that a fiys foot was
wonderful part of creation-that
when it was placed fiat upon the cell.
ing the weight of the fly pulled It
away in the center and made a tiny
vacuum and that the pros sure of the
atmosphere around it, in accordance
with law of nature, held the fly from
railing. Several human flies broke
their necks trying to do, tho same trick
with artificial flies feet before it was
discovered that If flies kept their feet
clean they couldn't walk on ceilings.
Files believe that mankind was
created for their amusement, and 1t
mas always been a question with me
which gave fly the more solid en-
1oyment--to buzz around your nose
and make You get up a few hour,
earlier in the morning than you want
to, or to poster you in the daytime
until you rage around the room with a
paper slapper in your hand while she
watches you from behind door
hinge"