Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1884 — Flies and Disease. [ARTICLE]

Flies and Disease.

Flies have more than once been charged with being the bearers of infection upon the feet, wings and proboscis, but Dr. Grassi has discovered another way in which they may be carriers of disease germs, and the source of food pollution. He finds that they may feed upon the ova of parasitic worms, and subsequently deposit them elsewhere, unchanged, in their faeces. Remarking upon this the Record says: “As flies are by no means particular in their perso al habits, a somewhat alarming vision of possible consequences is raised.? — Foote’s Health Monthly. - Over 2,000,000 sheep are within the borders of Bernalillo, New Mexico.

T WENTY-FivKyears ago this country had very few extravagantly rich men, and very few able-bodied vagrants. Now we are overrun with nabobs and tramps. Both are the creation of our political administration. Both are evil growths. “There are two things,” said Socrates, “which the magistrates of Athens w’ill be careful to keep out—opulence and poverty. Opulence, because it engenders effeminacy; poverty, because it produces baseness; both, because they lead to revolution. ”