Arizona citizen., 1878-11-02
Industry Of Bees.

A. $. Wilson, an English scientist,
 has made an elaborate calculation to
 show the marvellous industry of bees. Starting with the ascertained fact that 125 heads of clover yield approximate
 ly 15, ,432 grains of sugar, and that the
 proportion of sugar in honey may be
 roughly estimated at 75 per cent, he finds that 2,500,000 clover flowers must
 be visited by bees to obtain one pound of honey from that source.
 THE latest discovery in dentistry is that teeth can be transplanted from one mouth to another-a tooth that has done service for years or even decades being put into vacant socket in a jaw and made to grow. The important part of it is that the teeth need not have been recently extracted. It requires rare skill, but the conditions of dental disease and life are being so earnestly studied and so thoroughly understood that it is believed that transplantation and grating will soon supersede the present clumsy artificial contrivances.
 PoUGHKEEPsIE, N. Y, is to have no more locomotive whistling. A bell, worked by electricity, is set up at the depot, and when the trains come with in a mile of the station it will ring until they arrive. The danger signal is thus given, and the waste of steam is avoided, to say nothing of the racket Any engineer who whistles hereafter when in Poughkeepsie loses his situation on the Hudson River Road.
 A RIGHTEOUS brakeman on the Cen tral Pacific Railroad cried out as the train was about to enter tunnel, This is one mile long, and the train will be four minutes passing through it." The train dashed through into daylight again in four seconds, and the scene within the car was study for pain ter. Seven young ladies were closely pressed by seven pair of masculine arms; fourteen pairs of lips were glued together, and two dozen whisky flasks flashed in the air.
 A FRENCH physician, declares that 10 be free from liability to yellow fever one has only to drink boiled water, yellow fever being the exclusive result of drinking water that has become and that if one is attacked by the disease he will be cured in twelve hours if he will only drink large quantities of boiled water, even in the midst of the vomiting.
 X DELEGATION of New York and Baltimore merchants engaged in the of pure teas from China, visited the Chinese Minister yesterday and conversed with him on the subject of extending the use of pure tea, such IS the Chinese themselves drink, among our people. The Minister saw no reason to hinder, as tea in its pure state is cheaper than that artitically colored.
 THE official estimates required for the postal service for the next fiscal year, aggregate $36,551, 300. The es- .imated total postal revenues will fall short of supplying this sum by $5,- )07,S76. The amount appropriated the current fiscal year is $33, ,256,373, of which $4, ,222 ,274 comes from the Gen. eral Treasury. It is estimated, there fore, that S1,6S5,631 more than this years appropriation from the Treasury will be required for the next fiscal year.
 CHIEF JUSTICE MCCANDLEss of New Mexico, has resigned. His res gnation is much regretted by the people by whom he was held in high ,steem.
 A WOMAN was offered 5000 if she would keep silent for two hours. At he end of fifteen minutes she asked: Isn't the time nearly up?" She lost.
 A WOMAN in Nebraska suffocated Ter baby by rolling over upon it in ,ed. What is home without a s-moth- r.-Puck.
 SUMMER is reluctant to depart. She lings like young girl that is positive hat the clock has not yet struck ten, nd who does not care if it has.
 THE Indian Summer is welcomed as he "only good thing the Indians ever nvented."
 THE 70. be-joyful days" have come.
 The jolliest of the year;
 When candidates knock barrels in, ;
 And set up sights of beer.
 A DAILY service is to be established ext month on the mail route between anta Fe, N. M., and Prescott, Arizona.
 CYRUS CARD was married the other ay, and on his wedding notices were le words: "No cards" But then he oesn't know what might happen.
 No other girls nose itches so much } that of the one who wears a dia- Iond ring.
 THE compositor who made It read, In the midst of life we are in debt" asn't much out of the way.
 THE Salt River Herald begins its mi weekly todav