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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 whethes 
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 typhosus 
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 VircrntA.—On June 12th, I took two 
specimens ¢ and 92 of Tachopteryx thoreyi at Great Falls, Va. One 
at II in the morning, the other at 4 P. M. Both were resting vertically on 
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 Tachopteryx thoreyi, 2 @ and 1 9; 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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