Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-01-28

p1,zzLEs.-There are TWO things which puz,
zIe me. One is, the amount OF misplaced VIZ
tue in the world; that is to say. the immense
quantity OF dowurignt goodness scattered
around atuong the commonest sort OF people,
among the people about whom there are uo
social safeguards whatever and who would be
onite up TO the moral standard of their neigh
bors if they gave loose rein to all manner OF
nassion | tell YOU, when man has been sur
rounded with pure Influences do not mean
with austerity OF tanaiicisnl from which he
would be likely to suffer reaction-when man
who has brcathed no atmosphere but that OF
moderation and dccOrum, looks back upon his
own life, and trembles at his hundreds of hair
breadth scapes from utter ruin OF one kind or
another, he cannot help wondering what keeps
the unprotected class from golug altogether
and entirely to the bad. 1t was one Of the
last saints out of the caleDder who declared
himself competent to commit any crlue under
the SUI of which he had ever heard, and what
it is that keeps the average sinner from goug
straight throug the criminal list 1t Is hard to
tell
The other puzzle is, how the oraiuary human
being is able 10 bear up agalost the enormous
weight of suffering imposed upon him; not
simply the misery of whch the papers tell uu-
der startling headlines, or IN little paragraphs
that travel the rounds Of the press, a1d startlc
YOU now aud then with the grim and gruesome
hunor; not simply the distress which is their
subiect Of charity reports and governmental
statistics; not simply obvious examples OF quiet
eudurance-thc heroic men aud women whose
lives are one long self-sacrlhce not simply
these, but the absolute discomfort and pain,
physical, moral, ,'aEd aesthetic that Is borne By
almost every human being in the world with
such nobility of endurance that the croaker
and complainer is so much the exception that
he is pointed at with scorn, and shunncd by
his fellow men as an anomaly and nuisance.
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN BEEs.-1 was
staying in the house of gentleman who is
foud Of trying experiments, and who was bee
keeper Having read IN some book on bees
that the best and most humane way OF taking
the honey without destroying the bees was to
immerse the hive for few moments 10 tub
of cold water, and when the bees, being half
drowned, could not sting while the honey was
uninjurcd, since the water could not penetrate
the closely waxea cells, he resolved on trying
the plan. | saw the experiment tried The
bees according TO the recipe, were fshed out
of the water after the hive had been immersed
few minutes, and with those remaining in
the hive laid on a sieve 10 the SUI to dry. But,
by bad management, the experiment had been
tried too late n the day, and on the sun going
down they wore removed into the kitchen to
the great Indignation of the cook, on whom
they revenged their sufferings as soon as the
warm rays of the fire. before which they were
placed, revived them. AS she insisted upon
their being taken away, they we're put back
into their old hive, which had been dried, to-
gcther with a portion of their honey, and
placed on a shelf of the apiary, on which were
FIVE or six other strong hives full of bees, and
left for the night. Early the next morning my
friend went to look at the hive on which he ex-
pcrimented the Dight before, but, to his amaze
ment, not ouy the bees from that hive we're
gone, but the other hives were also deserted
not a bee remained in any of them. The half
drowned bees must, therefore, in some way or
other, have made the other bees understand
the fate that awaited them.-London Spectator.
a LEGISLATIVE CLEaKsHIp.- indig-
nation is felt in Trenton, n j., over some dis
graceful revelations affecting the reputation of
John Carpenter, chief clerk of the House of
Assembly, made by respectable young man,
Charles Y Bamford, OF that city, who was can
dldate for sub-cerkship under Carpenter.
Bamford has sued to recover $2,S00 damages
against C.rnenter for MISREPRESENTATION apd