MOSQUITOS COME IN DROVES.
Make Annual Pilgrimage to Kansas
City From the North.
Mosquitoes continued last night to swarm down upon Kansas City, and the fellow who said they were all destroyed in the forest fires of the Northern states has taken to the woods. If it be true that the annual fall crop of pests does come down from the North to escape the cold, it came in good installments last night, picking out the Northeast district and most all the lowlands in the city for a field for operation.
Pennyroyal fumes came from the lowlands last night, and the odor of burning rags floated from many a household which hadn't read of the two fires caused last week in that very manner. But the mosquitoes came flocking in just the same, even invading the rooms where the housewife had scattered watermelon rinds for the little rascals to feed upon and die. Some people believe watermelon rinds kill mosquitoes.
It is a matter of record deduced from the tone of complaints that the mosquitoes are not so thick as last year, although this is the month for the annual onslaught. Perhaps the absent ones did perish in the forest fires of the North, where the mosquito is said to get his start.
