Show A plague of piles flies A very remarkable phenomenon beno menon was noticed at some of the hotels last evening in the shape of tile sudden irruption in eption of myriads of small flies the insects seemed to be specially attracted by the electric light li lit in the glass globes at the Ul emdell lidell there were seen millions of these flies in motion crossing and re crossing each other like clouds of d dust everybody observed it as they had not been seen in such enor enormous mou numbers nur obera before they seem to havo have been generated all at once by myriads myri ads they were much smaller than the mosquito mob quito to and und somewhat larger than the gnat nal they appeared of the tile genus miller fl fly ft NY alio 10 enjoys flirting about a candle cand c except for f or their minuteness they lamoina camo in a sudden swarm and in passing passin I out of the lindell hotel tile electric electric fichta lichta were iv arc surrounded by myriads in of oft these ese pests and what is peculiarly no noticed ced was that the shadows of these little insects were magnified on the brightly illuminated sidewalk as large as if crowson crow sor large birds were flying over at the laclede hotel a si similar ml I ar irruption was noticed about the electric lights and in such crowds did they gather that they actual actually covered the globes at times obscuring the brilliancy within and rendering it necessary to substitute tho gaa gas lights the electric lights being turned off the flies covered the register and everything in the shape of paper dashing against the handbills hand bills like a shower of hail bail some idea of the wonderful extent of tho the invasion may bo be conveyed by the statement that the lagging flagging of the sidewalk became so completely coated that it grew dangerously f slippery and the th c to rs of the hotel had to send out the porters with brooms to remove them win dow low ledges were covered to the depoli of a fourth of an inch with thedeas the dead insects the little creatures had white wings and as they walked over the paper oatlie of alic register they looked like pale colored fleas in a consumptive state chicago times |