Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-01-01
ALL ABOUT THE FLY
or INTEREST PARTICULARLY TO
THE 5ALDHEADs.
Its Intelligence Truly an Interesting
and Exasperatfng study-5elleves
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,
is altogether too common and 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"
Then she must be vegetable or |
mineral" said the first speaker. Call |
her whichever you please. but she is |
one of the most interesting creatures |
extant.
AN industrious female fly lays
about 100000 eggs. There are no
indolent fees and few males. The fly
does not set after laying; IL she did
she would be retired from her wonted
activity during longer or shorter
periods of incubation. Her eggs hatch
without motherly attention. and 1t Is
seldom that one fails to hatch.
1.-THE intelligence OF fies is an inter
esting and exasperating study. One of
the ordinary ways of trying to kill
fies 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 IL she sits perfectly
still the descending paper will make
an air cushion in front of 1t 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.
i That's why when you strike at q
fly 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.
n when out not for food but merely
J. for the fun CT tantalizing you the fly
@ knows when she has had enough. Their
a. she sits down on a dark spot in the
:. carpet and watches you prance arount
the room looking for her on the walls
- "A very good way to catch flies is t,
distribute fly paper and platters o
poison on the tables and window stills
No matter how thick the flies ar
s, where this Is done, their number vii
a be quickly reduced. You can easil
prove this by counting the flies 70
have caught. 1t Is a great comfor
when there a few million flies In tn
n air and more coming to count up you
catch and know that dozen or so wi
n never poster you any more.
re This method of getting rid of file
IN Is often employed in restaurants.
was the method used in the railroa
restaurant where a. passenger hui
OK ried in for refreshment, glanced alon
nj the display OF pies and said:
lis "Give me a piece of this huckl
lr- berry
rk THAT Amt huckleberry.' said Il
he waiter girl. waving her hand over Il
pie; it's custard.'
,.,, when we were children we we
taught to believe that fiys foot w
nu a wonderful part of creation-th
1ek when it was placed fiat upon the ce
on ing the weight of the fly pulled
md away In the center and made I'll
of vacuum and that the pressure of t
atmosphere around it. in accordan
with law of nature, held the fly frc
ing falling. Several human flies bro
no their necks trying to do the same tri
me with artificial flies feet before 1t "
fol discovered that II flies kept their II
rhe clean they couldn't walk on ceilings
,om Files believe that mankind "
BINS created for their amusement, and
fore has always been question win
All which gave a fly the more solid
- joyment-to buzz around your M
~, and make you get up a few hoi
Ing earlier in the morning t an you WI
rip to, or to poster you IN the dayti
,ver until you rage around the room wit
y is paper slapper In your hand while
r of watches you from behind a
can hinge"