Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-01

Now that the influenza is playing havoc with all sorts and conditions of men, perhaps I may be pardoned if point out, pro bono publico, pre- ventive of which 1 was informed by a very clever analytical chemist when the dread fiend first invaded this country, and which has preserved me in immunity from his clutches up to the present, although when touring in Scotland I passed through places in which the epidemic ragged more furi- ously than in London. The specific is simple It is to take snuff, which ar rests and stays the insidious bacillus 1 with great effect. have given the | hint to several friends and by taking 1 it they have passed as yet unscathed, 1 and during the last few days 1 have 1 had my own capacious snuffbox re- plenished although so little attraction | has the fascinating, though somewhat 1 objectionable, habit for me that l have never thought of indulging in a pinch
 except when there has been an epi- demic in our midst. 1 may add that when journeying on the other side of
 the border l not only took snuff, but
 had a plate of it always on the table,
 across which I was thus able to in terview victims of la grippe with i'm
 punity.-Letter to Editor of the Lon- don Times.
 The white butterfly knows what she wants and gets it. She will only lay 1 her eggs on leaves of the Crucifer or der of plants, of which the cabbage
 variants-cabbag so called caulifiow- CT Brussels sprouts colerape, swede, etc.-are the most valuable to man. The sulphuretted essence of the Cru cifer must be somehow necessary to I4I, rSFI O posterity. Lettuce, beans, peas and the like she avoids: never an egg will she deposit on any oH them. But she can distinguish the most obscure Crucifer at a glance-eYen in cases where 1t would take a professor of botany a long time to be sure of it's genus. In l such matters instinct beats science
 with an ease hitherto inexplicable. She raises two broods of green, greedy cat
 erpillars in the year; one in late spring
 or early summer, the other in the au-
 tumn Her bright orange yellow eggs
 are deposited in slabs, sometimes
 containing two or three hundred, on the outer surfaces of leaves, where
 they are pressed close to the next ones
 Each of these eggs is a potential Hun . in a green uniform, and if they all matched out, the cabbage would be ex- tirpated in a single year. There is
 only one thing to be said in favor o1
 this ravager in the devils own colol (green is the satanic color as readers
 of medieval witch trials very wei
 know and some will think it a left
 handed comm endation) In the early stage of his growth, before he begin: his devouring career as a green bligh
 in a green shade, he is the tastes . traveller among his kind. He would
 l n iylI1r ha fire md no r where, in a caterpillar Derby. He il
 constructed. no doubt. for nasty re treats along spacious cabbage leaf To search for the eggs and rub then of the leaf is the only way to saw your wartime cabbages. Nature, 0
 course, has her horrid antidote a , work. There is a little red legged 2 four winged midge who lays her egg , in the white butterfy's eggs Gas Henr
 Fabre first discovered), so that he family of tiny grubs may substst