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about twenty of them were observed in the office of the principal hotel in 

 Brookville, catching and killing flies." The horn-fly made its first appear- 

 ance in Hancock County, 111., about May 2, 1895. For the especial benefit 

 of farmers this description of the female of Coccophagus fletcheri is here 

 set down in its original simplicity. [Then follows the purely technical 

 description ] 



This is- the kind of stuff with which the fly catchers of the Division of 

 Entomology catch flies. It must be added that Myzus mahaleb has the 

 misforture to have "frontal tubercles more or less distinctly gibbous, 

 though never prolonged and porrected, as in Ph. hnmuli.' 1 '' Well, the 

 reports of the Department of Agriculture will not cease to be amply pro- 

 longed and porrected. 



We believe that none who read this will be blind to the bril- 

 liancy of this solar display. But this editorial is not the only im- 

 portant and highly entertaining piece of information which this 

 same issue of the Sun for March nth contains. On page 10 we 

 read the advertisement of a plumber who " wants situation as 

 foreman, or take chaige of shop ; well up in estimating and lay- 

 ing out work." Our limited experience with plumbers has led 

 us to the belief that for estimating and laying out work they 

 have no equals, but the difficulty always is to get them to com- 

 plete work they have once laid out. We are consequently pained 

 to find that the Sun permits the use of its beams to a plumber 

 who promises to do nothing more than to " estimate and lay out 

 work." Of Rockland Cemetery-on-the-Hudson, we have the 

 pithy statement (page 7): "A rare location. Easily reached," 

 whether by laudanum, or some still more speedy means, we are 

 not informed. The "rareness" of the location doubtless refers 

 to the circumstance that many reach it but once and stay there. 

 In a criticism (page 3) of a presentation of Wagner's "Flying 

 Dutchman," we are told of Madame Gadski, who took the part 

 of Senta, that " vocally her attempt was in a large degree success- 

 ful, which can hardly be deponed of any of the other members 

 of the company who took part last evening." For the sake of 

 the New Yorkers we hope that when the " Flying Dutchman ' 

 is again produced, the Sun will have something more favorable 

 to " depone." 



It would be manifestly unfair to quote these plumbing and 

 cemetery advertisements and opera criticism as giving a full and 

 accurate idea of the contents of the Sun for March 11, 1897. 

 But it is just such a method which the Sun has adopted, in its 



