Show mow how mosquitoes bite the mosquito has a proboscis like an elephant only not so large he cannot do as many bandy things with it as the elephant can with his but lie he can cause a good deal of annoyance in a small way with it it is hardly the thing to say that the mosquito bites us for he haa baa no teeth he carries a pair of scissors inside of his proboscis the neatest and sharpest little cutting tools you ever saw he gets his living with these they are two delicate little blades and are placed alongside each other when he is ready to make a meal of ushe us he first buzzes around with these beautiful wings and sings a pleasant little song if we let him quietly bet tle tie down he picks out gul a place on our skin which is just to his liking heis heia very delicate about it when he gets ready he puts his proboscis down and pushes his little scissors out and makes a neat cut so that he can suck the blood out then he drinks as much blood as be he wants and is done his bis dinner but he does not leave yet he is going to pay his bill he has taken our blood and he will leave us something in exchange for it with all his faults fault he is an honest little fellow after his fashion he has the pay in his pocket ready to squeeze out before he goes it is poison but that makes no difre difference rence to him it is the best he has to give us his poison polson pocket is at the headon head of his bis proboscis and at the lower end of the proboscis he has another little pocket into which he puts poison enough for one dose this poison is ve very ry powerful A very little of it makes the place where the mosquito puts it very sore after be he has sucked our blood bloo d he puts ats the drop of poison into the p place lace te be took the blood from it is n not ot the bite or the cut that the mosquito makes that hurts us but the dropping of this powerful poison into our flesh if the mosquito was large enough to give a powerful dose of this poison it would be bad for us if he were as big as a kitten and his poison as strong in proportion a bite from him would kill us the signal box is especially constructed I 1 and placed GO so as to give a full view of the line and outside signals it is made comfortable and warm it is well lighted at night it contains a clock the telegraph instruments the levers of the points connected with the signals by the locking apparatus and is furnished with a box of fog signals and with hand signal lamp and sign signal edg flags SNAKES IN ir IRELAND ELAND enand once c a deek week corrects the th that st there are not snakes in ireland Ire lre lind aa as follows A correspondent informs ua us that not only do serpents and frogs manage to exist in ireland but that they absolutely swarm the latter especially in the country distri districts ets notably in the county of dublin and the queens queena county but as the snakes are there and old authorities maintain that ireland was free from them until comparatively recent times the fact remains that somebody must have imported them one account gives it out that they were first propagated from spawn introduced as an experiment in 1696 by a fellow of trinity college dublin another that a gentleman imported importe ct a number of vipers from england into wexford about the year 1797 but that they died immediately after in the summer of 1831 however a gentleman by the way of experiment brought a few pairs of the common snake from scotland and placed them in a plantation at mile cross near Newton ards ands and the readiness with which the they y multiplied was more alarming tha than n pleasant the late marquis of W d well known in his day for his strange freaks is said to have tried the same experiment on his own estates but with no success |