The Bug Kissed Them

THE LADY ON THE LIP THE CHILD ON THE EAR.

A Boy at Delhi Mills Thought He Was Kissed Also, But the Doctor Thinks it Poison Ivy

As was stated in the Argus exclusively Saturday evening, Dr. Lynds had a case last week which looks very much as if the now famous kissing bug was getting in its work in Ann Arbor. During the earlier part of the week while Mrs. A. H. Ranes, of 303 S. State St. was walking along the river she was stung on the upper lip by some insect. The lip became terribly swollen. Mrs. Ranes is the wife of a law student.

Dr. Lynds had another case yesterday, which may also be the work of the bug. The little child of Frank Warren the State St. barber was stung on the ear. When the doctor saw the child the ear was twice the natural size, but he thinks the remedies the parents had applied had retarded the swelling. Neither of these patients had seen the insect which stung them.

Saturday evening a crowd gathered to see the 12 year old son of Frank Reilly of Delhi Mills, who had been brought to the city. The report was that he had been hobsonized by the kissing bug two or three nights before. His face was terribly swollen so much so that he could hardly see. Dr. Darling, who attended him, thinks, however, that the swelling was caused by poison ivy, although the boy says he was stung. All the symptoms are those of poison ivy. In Dr. Lynds' cases the symptoms of poison ivy are absent.

Our evening contemporary reported that there was a kissing bug on exhibition at Stofflets news stand. This bug was a big tin affair, but many remarks were made upon it, such as "Why, I've seen thousands just like that."

The kissing bug returns still continue to come in from all over the country, but we have yet to get a good description of the bug whose Latin name is given as Melanolestes Picipes.