The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-11-12
ALL ABOUT THE FLY
" INTEREST PARTICULARLY TO
THE sALDHEAps.
" intelligence Truly an Interesting
ano ESasperating study-eeIleves
That Mankind Was Created
for Its Amusement

Inc common domestic fy." said a
man VINO is no scholar but has man.
aged TO pick up many interesting facts
altogether too common aud too
domestic She is one of the most in
teresting animals"
You don't mean animals listen.
er broke In, "a fly is not an animal"
Ihen she must be vegetable or a
mineral" said the first speaker. cali
ner whichever you please, but she is
one OF the most interesting creatures
extant.
An industrious female fly laws
ABOUT 100000 eggs. There are no
INCIDENT fies and few raales. The fly
uoes not set after laying; If she did
sne would be retired from her wonted
ACTIVITY during longer or shorter
periods OF incubation. Ser eggs hatch
without motherly attention, and it is
seldom that one fails to hatch.
The intelligence of nes is an inter.
estihg and exasperating study. One OF
the ordinary ways of trying to kill
MES is to fold a newspaper in the
shape OF heavy fiat pad and whack
at them with 1t when they are sitting
still.
Now, the fly is familiar with the
scientific fact that II she sits perfectly
sui the descending paper will make
an air cushion in front of il that 80
tunes out OF 100 will prevent her from
Delng crushed. The conclusion mo
mentarily stuns her and she falls to
the noor apparently dead but in
rev minutes she has recovered and is
again on the job.
That's why when you strike al y
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
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 W" he's you prance around
the room looking for her on the walls.
"A very good way to catch flies is to
distribute fly paper and platters Of
poison on the tables and window sins
NO matter how thick the flies are
where this is done, their number win
be quickly reduced. You can easily
prove this by counting the flies you
have caught. 1t is a great comforl
when there a few million flies in the
air and more coming to count up YOU
catch and know that dozen or so viii
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.
ried 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 her hand over the
pie; it's custard.
When We were children we were
taught to believe that f1y's foot was
a wonderful part of creation-that
when 1t was placed fat upon the Gel.
ing the weight of the fly pulled Il
away in the center and made a tin,
vacuum and that the p sure of tbs
atmosphere around 1t, n accordance
with law of nature, held the fly from
falling. Several human flies broke
their necks trying to do the 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 Il
has always been a question with me
which gave fly the more solid en-
joyment-to buzz around your nos,
and make you get up a few hour
earlier in the morning than you wan
to, or to poster you in the daytime
until you rage around the room with {
paper slapper in your hand while she
watches you from behind door
hinge"