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Show Explosive Mosquitos. From Tarry town, N. Y., comes a pleasant- tale of mosquitos I which get on gasoline jags and then explode, to the terror of the inhabitants of Tarrytown, and one James Brady is mentioned as having been badly burned by a fire in his mattress started by a mosquito with its tank full Of gasoline, which came too near while Mr. Brady was filling his pipe and exploded. This is about the meanest thing the mosquito has done yet. When wehad all thought we had discovered dis-covered a sure wayto get rid of mosquitos and malaria by using liberally the product of the Standard X) Company, it appears ap-pears that the mosquitos are trying try-ing to become immune by absorbing absorb-ing gasoline into their systems. This is going to make it more difficult to abate the mosquito pest, and in a way it is a blow at the Presidential aspirations of the Hon. Woodrow Wilson, who has been taunted with the fact that while President Taft has rid the Isthmus of Panama of mosquitos, Governor Wilson has not yet provqn, his ability to do the same thing for New Jersey, j |