Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1887 — What Good the Mosquito Does. [ARTICLE]

What Good the Mosquito Does.

A writer in the Springfield AepubU 'an claims to have found out the useful point of the mosquito. He says :“I found out the real mission of the pest by putting a lot of the wigglers into a hogshead of water and filling another hogshead, into which no wigglers were put. The second body of water soon became foul, while the- first remaiifed sweet, showing that our swamps would more often become sources ot disease were they not infested with mosquitoes.” A veteran, Mr. George Me Kona, Ashburnham, Mass., writes: ‘‘While suffering with c ronic rheumatism (result of Andersonville), I used St. Jacobs Oil, which gave immediate relief.” Sold by druggists and dealers. In his address at the dedication of the new Brooks Library building, at Brattleboro, Vt., Hon. Mellen Chamberlain, of the Boston Public Library, said that “before 1700 there was not in Massachusetts, so far as known, a copy of Shakspeare's or of Milton’s poems; and as late as 1720, whatever may have been in private hands, Harvard College Library lacked Addison, Atterbury, Boiingbroke, Dryden, Gay, Locke, Pope, Prior, Steele, Swift, and Young.” Against such a background one may effectively pamt the later progress of literary life in New England., at present in use, was adopted by Congress June 20, 1782. The device was submitted to Congress by Charles Thomson, then secretary of'that body, and was largely suggested by the eminent English anti]nary, Sir John P.riestwich, to John Adams. The motto “E Pluribus Unum” is said to have been suggested by its on* the title-page of the London Dntleman's Magazine. Habit is hard to overcome. IL yon take off the first letter it does not change it “a bit.” If rou take off another, Wii have a “bit” left. If yon tak e off another, the whole of “it” remains. If yon remove another, it fe not “t” totally used up; all of whi h goes to show that if you wish to be rid of a bad habit yon must throw it off altogether. \ r * * * * Rupture radically cured, also pile tumors and fiatnl®. Pamphlet of partieufare 10 cents in stamps. World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. .