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PHILADELPHIA, PA., OCTOBER, 1908. 



It is held that about 999 house-flies in every thousand breed 

 in horse excrement, and horse excrement is manufactured in 

 and around stables. House-flies have several important func- 

 tions ; they make the bald-headed individual wonder whether 

 life is worth living and wipe their dirty feet all over the jam 

 and other articles of food. They are not a bit particular where 

 they walk and are just as likely to wade into a Bacillus typlwsns 

 discharge as anything else. It costs from five to three hundred 

 and fifty dollars to screen a house, and we think a law some- 

 thing like the following would be appropriate : An Act. Be 

 it enacted etc., That on and after this date stable owners shall 

 supply and pay for all window and door screens for their neigh- 

 bors' houses within a radius of one-quarter of a mile from said 

 stable or stables. Be it further enacted, that no stable owner 

 be allowed to screen his own home and that he be compelled to 

 eat house-flies in his cake in lieu of raisins, pay all doctors', 

 druggists' and undertakers' 'bills when any of his neighbors 

 die of typhoid fever or kindred diseases. There shall be no 

 other penalties enforced. 



TACHOPTERYX (ODONATA) IN VIRGINIA. On June i2th, I took two 

 specimens $ and 9- of Tachoptcryx tJwrcyi at Great Palls, Va. One 

 at ii in the morning, the other at 4 P. M. Both were resting vertically mi 

 the trunk of tree. Several places near by where the water is nearly dried 

 up. Neither specimen was hard to capture. On June 25th, at Great 

 Falls, I again took Tachoptcryx thoreyi, 2 $ and i $ ; the latter on 

 a log across the path, others on trees. Not hard to catch. Saw two 

 or three more. NATHAN BANKS. 



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