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Henry McNeeley, the South Side Restaurant man, has constructed a fly trap about three feet high and in one afternoon caught (by estimation) 3,250,000 flies. Now for statistics: Each healthy fly (and they are all healthy) raises a progeny of 250 young at a time, and six families in a season thus making 1500 from one fly. Each fly has six legs each leg travels over filth every day and gathers at least 2,000 microbes per leg, or 12,000 per fly. Now, let's see what good Henry has done in a half day: 3,250,000 times 1,500 makeB 4,875,000,000 flies multiply this by 12,000 makes "Hank'' the benefactor to mankind by the extermination of 58,500,000,000,000 microbes—but hold on, we are getting dizzy.
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