The Carpet Bug

A new insect pest has appeared, which pronrises to make housekeeping as discouraging business as the long-suffering granger ñnds the raising of potatoes in the face of the Colorado beetle. This latest terror of the patiënt house-wife is au emigrant froin Europe, with the distinguished title " Anthrenus sorophulárice." Upon its native heath the stranger contents itself mninly with an animal diet, but on its arrival thia side of the water it develops a voracicus appetite for everything -yroolen. Henee it has been f amiliarly dubbd " the carpetbug," and iu its specialty it seems to fiir outrival that old-time enemy of domestic peace, the moth. The insects multiply rapidly, and eo destractive are they that some people who have had pariicularly sorrowful experiencss are of the opinión that cirpets will have to be given up entirely when his bugship bas possessed the land. The bugs are black, hairy i'ellowB, about a quarter of aa inch long, of oval shape and very quick of motion. These in tuin produce sluggish beetles, an eightü of an inch in length, spotted with white and red. Wherever the re is a crevice, that is the home of the carpet-bug, which, however, does not conüne his diet to carpets alone, but attacks clothing and f urs hanging in closets