Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-10-08
ALL ABOUT THE FLY
OF INTEREST PARTICULARLY TO
THE sALpHEAps.
Its Intelligence Truly an Interesting
and exasperatina study-5efieves
That Mankind Wss Created
for Its Amusement.

Inc common domestic n.y." said a
man who is no scholar but has man
aged TO pick up many interesting facts.
Is altogether too common and too
domestic. She Is one of the most in
teresting animals"
You don't mean animals" a listen
or broke in, "a fy Is not an animal"
Ihen she must be vegetable or a
mineral said the first speaker. Call
ner whichever you please. but she is
one OF the most interesting creatures
extant.
An industrious female hy laws
about 100000 eggs. There are no
INCIDENT ties and few males. The fv
GOES not set after laying; if she did
sne 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 fes is an inter
esung and exasperating study. One of
the ordinary ways of trying To kin
nies is to fold a newspaper in the
shape Of a heavy fat pad and wbacl,
at them with it when they are sitting
still. ''iS
Now, the fly is familiar with the
sclentlhc fact that If she sits perfectly
sun the descending paper will make
an air cushion in front of it that 90
umes out OF 100 will prevent her from
oeing crushed. The conclusion mo-
mentartly stuns her and she falls to
me moor apparently dead. but In a
lew minutes she has recovered and ia
again on the job.
That's why when Won strike NJ
NY hard enough to splatter the butter
al over the walls she is able to rean-
pear so quickly on the rim of the
sugar bowl.
When out not for food but merely
tor Cne run OF tantalizing you the ay
KNOWS when she has had enough. Then
she sits down on a dark spot in the
carpet and watches you prance around
me room looking for her on the walls
A very good way to catch flies is To
distribute fly paper and platte-s oP
poison on the tables and window su1e
NO matter how thick the flies ara
"nere tnls is done, their number win
DC quickly reduced. You can easiIv
prove this by counting the flies Won
nave caught. It is a great comfort
when there few million flies IN the
ar ana more coming to count up vonr
catch and know that a dozen or so win
never poster you any more.
This method of getting rid ~ e,,-
Is often employed in restaurants II
was the method used I'm the All
-eSsaurant where passenger hur-
- Ecu IN Ior retreshment, glanced along
the display of pies and said:
Give me piece of this buclr1a-
berry ~ '''e-
That amt huckleberry,' said the
waiter girl, waving her hand over he
pie; its custard.'
When we were children we vv.ra
aught to believe that a fly's foot was
WONDERFUL part of creatfon-tbat
Shen II was placed fiat upon the cell
ng the weight Of the fy puIIed II
away in the center and made 8 -
yacuum and that the preasuro ~ ~
atmosphere around It, In accordance
YIN I,, law OF nature, held the ny from
aiming. Several human '1ies' broke
nelr necks trying to do the same trick
WIN artlncia flies feet before II was
discovered that II flies kept their sect
lean they couldn't walk on ceilings.
Flies believe that mankind was
reated for their amusement, and IL
as always been question with me
Vhlch gave ny the more solid en-
oyment-to huzI around your nose
no make you get up a few hours
arler In the morning than You want
D. or to poster you in the daytime
null you rage around the room with a
aper slSpper in your hand while she
,Atcnes you from behind a door
inG0." OO'