Show in earlc mosquitoes are I 1 venture to say for the first time within the memory of the oldest inhabitant a plague of many parts of paris the dampness of the spring is said to be the reason why they nightly buzz bite and leave faces and hands covered with hard red blotcher blotches blot ches but I 1 believe the true cause is the wholesale destruction of seine fish when the ice floes in that river were being dynamited last winter I 1 never suffered so much in warm weather in any part of the couth of france from mosquitoes as I 1 have done this week if one sits by a lamp near an open window along many of the boulevards a swarm of them assails one the mosquito bedget not being used in paris one lies down at night unprotected and is liable to rise in the morning with a disfigured face in a state of painful itchiness paris cor london news |