Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-04
One gets WHOM Iooklng through ster.

one gets when looking through ster-
eoscopc.
It was this depth this doing away
with tatness, that had TO be gotten
| Ia the pictorial material that furnished
the initial basis for this giant mosquito
making. At the outset tho problem
was immensely complicated DR.
OF binpeular microscope He has
had To do a lot of delicate work
throughout the entire construction,
some Of the prettiest sort Of micro
scopical stunts, one of these Of very
notable scientific achievement being
his success in obtaining the relative
values as to depth OF the thorny places
on the thorRN
Those who come 20 visit these giant
mosquito models-and with very little
question there will be thousands
win probably think the eyes not far
from the most wonderful thing of all.
These eyes have been made with the
most painstaking ana extraordinary
accuracy. and are literal. absolute re-
productions OF q mosquitoes eyes upon
q vast scale Each eye is made OF
hundreds Of minute eyes, each tiny
eye of the eye In the model about
the size of a pins head
These eyes have "A wonderful iri'
desccnce all their own. Ii rs not the
ordinary iridescence of many fsmliaS
objects, but that strange. peculiar
type seen IN the products Of coal tar.
In order that the color scheme of
these eyes might be carried out graph
ically and realistically in the very
highest degree, and faultlessly from
tho viewpoint of science each eye mas
been made not in q group. but separ-
ately. That IS each eye Of the eye
itself has been turned out independ-
emily has been made, colored, and
finally put into the large eye as n
distinct piece q part of harmonious
whole.
There arc something like $50 OF
these little eyes. ana The large eye
cosmos OF all these, has thus the most
fascinating effect besides being re-
markablc piece Of mechanism. But
the eyes do not by any manner II
means monopolze the specially inter-
csting features Of these mosquitoes
Quite MS notable is the biting appar-
atus This shows marvcNousl%
effectively In these models.
Popularity. this biting apparatus VIII
interest the average man more than
anything else. For it is what is known
as the business end" of the mosquito.
Here viii be revealed plainly and dis
tinctly why the mosquito bites, how he
bites, precisely what his bite really is,
When the weapons of war come to be
magnified many times and shown out
in this striking way, people VIII be
greatly impressed. The adult mos
quito carries a genuine "armory' that
ought to be feared. Minute as 1t is in
actual life, it is substantially danger
Gus thing.
In the model it is going to be fairly
terrifying. The armory carried COM
prises two saws and two lances. These
are inclosed IN a sheath and the two
lances exposed. In the model they
are about a foot long. This tubular
sheath has lips" on its end.
The sheath projects out from the head
and is yellow and hairy.
When these lips are pressed against
a surface and the mosquito starts in to
bite the enveloping covering of the
tubular sheath slips back. leaving the
two saws and the two lances exposed
In the model, lances and saws are
made of white glass, and the effect is
startling in the extreme.
The two antenne of the great mos
quito have been made into what are
beautiful features. 1t is only in great
engagements like the present work
that the wonders of the insect would
become really evident to ordinary eyes
These huge antenn@, so inconceivably
minute in the actual mosquito are con-
struced of glass. Following closely
as they do-the design and the details
of nature they present exquisite deli
cacy of color and form. In the model
they are 10 to is inches long, and are
marked by whorl after whorl of points,
grading down to the tips, an effect that
can best be described by saying that 1t
is exactly like that Of the horsetail
plant.
These whorls are strikingly artistic,
and as seen in the model are quite the
most aesthetic portion of the whole mos
quito. They are a remarkable instance
of what is beautiful in nature. A GU
rious fact to be noted Is that in the
male these whorls are very large and
pronounced. in the female small and
inconspicuous.
The model of the larva shows the
embryo mosquito after 1t has left the
egg. floating in the water. The pupa
model shows the young mosquito after
it has stored up sufficient energy to
form legs and wings. But these two
models will be relatively of little in
terest to the public. The models of
the adult male and female are to be
the striking exhibits.
There IL being constructed here also
a very big cross-section view Of the
body Of the mosquito. presenting also
with scientific eXactitudc. and with all
possible perfection OF color this pests
interior organs An important feature
of this cree section VIII be the re-
production rmously maSninod, of
The moslu s1livaiy glands. Scicn-
lists say th4t it is i'm these that the
parasites of the mosquito that spread
disease broadcast lodge. In the model |
these sallyary glands arc built OF white |
glass, and arc an inch or trine more |
than that long. -Washington Post.