Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 21, 1920, Page 3

SWAT THE FEMALE MOSQUITO in the Case of Those Insects, Kipling Was Undoubtedly Right in His Assertion, * Contrary to popular belief, the mos« quito lays only 50 or 100 eggs at & \timé; we naturally would suppose it 1aid about 1,000,000. The larval stage " lasts seven to fourteen days. If you have a barrelful of mosquitoes under your eaves trough have a look at them. It is easier to spot the malarial kind than others. The harmless wrigglers hang with their heads down, but the malarial mosquito: lies - with "its body pardllel to the sutface of the water. If a fullgrown mosquito bites you, logk 4t its back, preferably- with a micro- scope. If it has the figure of a lyre * ‘om its back it is bad medicine. If it " 48 all one color it wap't hurt you. ' Only ‘the female mosquito will bite, according to a writer in the Saturday Evenjng .Post,, The males die in the fall, the females hibernating and then lving one or two months. The male 1ives but & few days. No, doubt you be- fleve that mosquitoes live on bleod alone, though you may have wondered how they ;get along in the remote wil- derness where there seems to be no anjmal life, as, for instance, in the subarctic and arctic country. The "' truth is that the mosquito also lives on the juice of plants. They will bite al- ‘most any sort of animal, will bite rep- .‘tiles and even caterpillars. . Some mos- quitoes can bite through a leather moc- casin. Any of them can bite through 4 human hide; = . SOFT WOOD MADE BEAUTIFUL FProiur Application of Finishing Meth- ods Gives All the Effects of More Costly Material, [ - Beautiful wood floors, approximat- 1ng in effect and finish the oak and . maple floors found in the best type of homes, can be developed, with the aid of proper finishing methods and mac terials, in such woods as pine, fir, and .cypress, says a bulletin of a large American company. These so-called “goft” woods are very durable and possess not a little natural beauty of ‘Hardwood effects are secured on soft woods by staining with an oil wood stain, consisting of a permanent color pigment in an oil vehicle. These . stains are particularly adapted to-use on the soft wodbds. The effect is com- pleted by applying a thin coat of shel- lac and finishing with two coats of ‘prepared wax or floor varnish. The first step toward obtaining the. desired finish is to sandpaper the wood ¢ P T .; - BARONESS ROMANO AVEZZANO Baroness Romuno Avezzano, the wife of the new Itallan ambassador who recently arrived in this country, was formerly Miss Marle Jacquelin Taylor, daughter of the late Mortimer Taylor of St.: Louis, and Mrs. Fred- erick Clark of Staten Island. Festsisusatniaganasnnene Newlyweds Lost in . - Dense ‘Maine Woods Lenox, Mass.—A story of how Mr. and Mrs. Adelbert I. Newton were lost in the northern waste of the Maine woods and wander- ed about for four days without shelter or food was revealed in a letter received here from Mr. Newton. The Newtons were married in wilds, they went into the Maine woods for their honeymoon. From a camp they started for a walk and lost their way. They were without a cowpass and fol- lowed a moose trail which led ’ thém away from all human habi- tation. ¢ Upable to locate their camp or -smaothly. The stain should then he -applied freely with a brush, and, af- ter being allowed to stand for -about _five or ten minutes, buffed off with a cloth.” When the stain has dried for - 24 hours the shellac and wax or var- nish may be applied as described. A deeper effect than that procured by the method outlined may be ob- tained by the useé “of a varnish stain ; -over the oil wood stain. Both should, . of course, correspond. in color. Often 4t is difficult to determine upon the | best finish for a floor in the absence of expert advice. Aviators’ Dangers. Air service doctors have discovered > that airmen who have been ex_gerfs -will, on'occasion and for a period, ‘make all manner of mistakes in landing. With a smooth lawn below them they will do a “poached egg” and crash the machine on its tail or will take ‘the ground before they mean to. These accidents are attributed to a particular sort of - weariness of eye miscles as well as eye nervesr The eye fails to convey to the brain a proper ‘eye picture of the ground or other. object. ! The eye fails very much as the mus- cles of an untrained lete, fail. Many exercises for the ey® have been de- signed which will remedy this ‘de- fect. Character of Future Naval Attack. , Rear Admiral W. F. Fullam summar- jzes the method of naval attack of the future as: Plunging fire from long- range guns; attack by bombing from -aircraft; attack by submarine mines; attack by torpedoes fired elthgr from -submarines or destroyers or by torpedo planes. He believes that aircraft will become increasingly a determining fac- tor in! ranging and he believes that sea power or fighting power will be largely <dependent upon control of the air and that the fleet which secures this con- 4rol must win, other things being ap- proximately equal.—Scientific Ameri- , can. @ ‘ Germany’s Air-Post Plans., Negotiations are being carried on between German and foreign firms with the object of securing Germany’s participation in ‘an international air- post service. Regular air-mails be- tween Berlin and Copenhagen are ex- pected to begin shortly, and arrange- . ments are being made with the other Scandinavian countries. An important part of the service will be the convey- ance of “airgrams” to relieve the tele- -araphic service. The shortage of gas- oline in Germany at'present is re- stricting the use of aircraft for mail purposes.—Scientific American. N N M) ° That War Spirit. Mrs. Gotham—T'd like to go to the theater or opera tonight, dear. Mr. Gotham—All right. What would -you like to see? . “Oh, something with some fighting in it, Henry.” ~ “But you know they've stopped the production of those German operas. «dear.” a cabin they.passed three nights out of doors, subsisting on dried berries. Finally they came out on a stream and followed it to a hunting lodge: R Y E C R TR TR TR Y 4 AIfiI;LANE"‘SENDS” 175 MILES Record Broken in Wireless Transmis- sion of Message From Ship in Clouds. ’ ’ ’ [ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ H : Exeter, N. H. Both loving the ’ ’ ’ ’ v ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ .S E LI I LI LI LA L REELL IR AR RLIRRRRRRRRAR T, p : Washington.—What is belleved to .have been a record in the transmission of wireless messages from an airplane -in flight to a land station was report- ed by the army air service. Recently during maneuvers of the Thirty-seventh infantry at Fort Mack- intosh signals sént from a plane were recorded at the* Del Rio, Texas, a dis- tance of 175 miles. An altitude of 300 feet was maintained during most of the time, and a general north and south course was flown. * The, messages were received without a break, althéugh the operator stated that at times they became faint and the dl‘stlnctions" varied, due likely to the direction of the flight. RUSSIAN SPURNS RAW MEAT Prince Troubetzky, Strong Man, Bends Coin With His Teeth on _ Vegetable Diet. New York.—Prince Paul Troubetzxy, Russian sculptor, whose studio Is at Hollywood, Cal,, and who came here fairly radiating strength, declared that eating vegetables instead of meat had transformed him from a sickly youth to “one of America’s strongest men.” To prove his strength, the prince bent a quarter two ways with his teeth, smashed some walnuts with a blow of his fist, and raised above his head some weights which an ordinary man could not budge. Balancing Rock on Mountain, Fitchburg, Mass.—On the western slope of Wachusett mountain a balanc- ing rock has. been dissovered. The rock, which a man found while blue- berrying, is six feet high and has three points of contact with the rock beneath. It can be rocked perceptibly. in one, direction without being dis- lodged from its position on the natural platform. T i e Under Same Name 1,000 Years., . London.—In preparing the papers for a transfer ‘of the-license of the “King and Tinker” at Enfield, search of the records showed that the place had been run under the same name as a public house for more than 1,000 years, making it perhaps the qld- est inn in England. Gas to Fight Blackbirds. Colambus, Ind.—As a method of rid- ding the city of blackbirds, which have ! became so numerous as to cause much damage, the police department has asked the city councii for permission to use poisoned gas to make war on the birds. ; ——————— | PHONE =77 For' your Livery Car Service and Courtesy Our Motto - Ward Bros. -Auto Livery and ’ (ict!l'lhc ' §// Genuine ’ General Avoid | gems: Waste /4 e Attention Farmers!" The. Potato Growers’ Exchange send their representative to buy your potatoes at the highest cash market price. Would like to'have you communicate or call on him if you'have any to offer for sale, and he will be glad to call on you at any place. Call for - ' MR. 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