112 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, 



" I am very much pleased to notice the growth of your journal (Ento- 

 mological News), as it certainly deserves to grow and flourish; it is 

 the cheapest and best entomological paper published, European journals 

 not excepted. Wishing you further success, I am, 



" H. A., Elberfield, Germany." 



At a meeting of the Ohio State Horticultural Society, February 20th, 

 the secretary was unanimously instructed to correspond with the societies 

 of other States with reference to sending delegates to a national convention 

 to discuss the best means for preventing the introduction and diffusion 

 of insect and fungus pests, and measures for destroying both these and 

 such as are indigenous to the country. 



A young man and his friend of Utoptera, 

 Went one day to catch Lepidoptera. 



He saw one sail by. 



Jumped for it too high, 

 And landed amidst Hymenoptera. 



He used words that are found in Theology, 

 And then to his friend made apology. 



I am sorry to say 



I must bid you good day. 

 For I've had quite enough Entomology. — (Anonymous) 



Snake bites. — In reply to Mr. G. R. Pilate's inquiry for a sure remedy 

 for snake bites I beg to state that a man who makes a business of collect- 

 ing rattle snakes for the Chinese doctors, says that the ^a// of a rattle 

 snake is a sure cure for their " bites." He has been bitten a half dozen 

 times and the gall from a rattler has never failed to work a complete cure, 

 except once, when he could not get at all the punctures, when medical 

 aid had to be summoned. He says that after applying the gall there is 

 no more pain than from a bee sting. — Burton L. Cunningham, Fort 

 Klamath, Oregon, 



DoBELL, in his travels in Kamtschatka, relates when the Chinese wish 

 to enjoy a cricket fight they place two males in an earthen bowl six or 

 eight inches in diameter. The owner of each tickles his prize-fighter 

 with a feather, which makes them run around the bowl in different direc- 

 tions; they frequently meet and jostle each other as they pass. After 

 several such meetings they at last lose their temper, and ere long, be- 

 coming greatly exasperated, they fight with such fury that both are literally 

 torn limb from limb. 



Wholesale massacre. — The French war office has recently been oc- 

 cupied with a large number of inventions for the wholesale massacre of 

 the enemy in the next great war. One of the inventors proposes that the 

 Minister of War should subjugate and train squadrons of horse flies. 

 These novel warriors, it is suggested, would be fed on blood smeared 

 beneath a thin skin covering on dummy figures dressed as soldiers of the 



