Miscellaneous.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 82, 3 February 1876, Page 3

Miscellaneous.

DIRECTIONS FOR KILLING FLIES. Deeming it to'be;the duty of everyone to give to the world any valuable information which he may possess, I hereby cheerfully give to poor, afflicted humanity the benefit of my great discovery, viz., a process for exterminating the house-fly, . Firstly, catch your fly. Be sure you do that, otherwise this information will be given in vain. Secondly, douse him into a barrel of creton water, head downward. Thirdly, lay him : in the sun to dry, but mind you put a brick upon him to hold him clown. After one hour nnd a half of drying process has elapsed, comes — Fourthly, take him out, and, with a camel's hair pencil, give him a coat of shellac varnish, which will so securely fasten his wings down that he cannot extricate himself from your grasp. This done, half the battle is - won, and then comes — Fifthly, lay him on a large smooth rock (ten by twelve feet cubic measures is the best), stand him on one end, so that . the effect may prove the more disastrous; then let another rock, of, equal dimensions be suspended directly above, agd at the report of cannon cut the ropedown comes the rock, and your fly is dead. This process is slow but sure. N.B* — Females may be treated in the same manner as the males.