Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1877 — Where Bedbugs Come From. [ARTICLE]

Where Bedbugs Come From.

About a score of the members of the Academy of Natural Sciences assembled last evening at the regular weekly meeting. Two stalactites from J. Heistand, Middleton, this State—a curassou egg, three and one-half inches long, and a cocatoo egg, one and one-half inches long—were presented to the museum, and then Dr, Leidy informed the assembly that it was generally supposed that the homes of swallows, pigeons, and bats, like houses, were infested with bedbugs. It was certain that they were to be found in the bark of the cotton-wood wherever people were dwelling in the immediate vicinity. From specimens he had obtained he was sure that the bedbugs in swallows’ nests were different from those to be found in houses, and consequently people could allow the birds to build their nests under the eaves without fear. Prof. Koenig, of the University of Pennsylvania, spoke of a mineral from Mine Hill, Sussex county, N. J., which he called calceosteatite. He was not prepared to give it a name.—Philadelphia Times.