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BEES AND BEE-RAISING.

THE stingless bees belonging to the
genus Melipona have been long known
both in Europe and in this country.
Ir is doubtful about there being any
plant that will pay to cultivate for honey
alone, although there are many which
will pay TO cultivate for fruit and honey.
Which viii pay best will depend upon
how the owner Is situated.
Come honey is capped over by the
bees Just as soon as it is sufficiently
evaporated so that it will not sour IN the
cell if the temperature is kept at 100
or 102 degrees, as that is just the heat
of the hive when the honey IS stored
A SMOKER is used to tame bees, IN
order that they may be handled easily.
1t is a pair of small bellows, with fire
box and funnel attached, so made that 1t
can be worked with one hand. Smoke,
properly applied, has the effect OF quiet
ing the irascible little insects.
KEEPING bees in the old box hive is
entirely ont of date, and the sooner 1t is
abandoned the better. The difficulty with
it is that you cannot regulate the internal
economy of colony, but must leave the
bees to do pretty much as they please.
Bees need management, the same as cat
tie, poultry, sheep, hogs or any other
kind Of farm stock.
The last bees to die IN colony are
generally those near the queen. Their
last feeble morsel is divided with their
mother, and oftentimes her position
shows she had survived her childrensome
time. Before giving your seemingly
dead bees up in despair, make one earn
est effort to restore them and you may be
rewarded by saving valuable queen and
colony.
EVERYBODY knows that hornets, wasps,
yellowiackets and ali the varieties OF wild
bees win be incased IN frost and ice for
months, and as soon rs warmed and dried
Will be as active as ever. But the honey
bee is not so constituted. Her blood is
warm, and her system must be supplied
with food to sustain life yet during win
ter she hes IN a semi-torpid condition,
and may even seem to be dead, and yet
be restored.
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CObblers Who Went BevOud Their Last.


No one but a shoemaker could nave
thought Coleridge serious in his strange
saylng tnat the shoemaker's bench hao
produced more eminent men than any
other handlcraft. The Shoe and Ledth-
er Exporter has, however, compiled a
Dill OF particulars in the shape OF
list OF famous cobblers, which seems to
act as an ettectual estopel on all Jealous
craftsmen. Hans Christian Andersen,
VINO needs no introduction, may head
the INST, and Hans Sachs, of Nuremberg,
VINO, though he made shoes all his lie,
yet also made 5000 poems, plays, farces
ana rhyinlng tables, may be put next.
Slr Oloudesley Shovel was shoemaker
until he enlisted in the navy. and so was
Sir Christopher Minis. another English
Admiral John Hewson, one of Crom-
wells Colonies, and a sianer of Charles
L. S death-warrant Samuel Bradburn,
the " Demosthenes of Methodism," as
well as Bishop; James Laeklnton,
whose catalogue of publications reached
the total-enOrmOus for that time-ot
10000 volumes, in 1787-all these were
cobblerS at first, if not at the last. Con-
tlnulng the English list. William Gift
ford, whose memory Is preserved by
complimentary allusion in Bvron's EN-
glish Bards and Scotch Reviewers, and
whose body is buried in Westminster
Abbey; George Fox, the arch Quaker
William Carey, missionary famous
century ago, and who read the proofs of
the Bible IN twenty-seven Oriental Ian
guages Samuel Drew. "the Locke OF
the nineteenth century" whose expert
ence as an author led him TO formulate
the sad truth that "the man who makes
shoes is sure of his wages, but the man
who makes books is never sure of any
thing" Thomas Holcroft whose name
is not nearly so well known as that of
single one OF his plays, "The Road TO
Ruin ;" the Bloomfield brothers, whom
Byron thus apOstrophlzed:
We tuneful cobblers, still yournotes prolong.
Compose at once slipper anda song;
John Pounds, whom school-chiIdren
cried at being turned away from-an
these and lesser lights too numerous to
mention were English shoemakers.
Coming to our own country. Roger
Sherman, one of the " signers." leads
the list in time, but Vice President Hen
nv Wilson in rank Beside these were
Congressman Sheffey and Noah Worces-
ter, not the photographer, but the
founder of the Massachusetts, Peace So
ciety. And ex-Govs. H. P. Baldwin. of
Michigan, and William Clafin, of Mas
sachusetts, If they never made SHOES, at
least dealt in them largely enough to be
named here. Altogether, the list is sufii-
GENTLY imposing and convincing to lusti-
fy verdict In favor of Coleridge's say
ing.
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A Forpiyine yatnre.

Among Montgomery most violent
critical assallants was R. III. Horne.
After twenty-eight years estrangement.
1 had reconciled Wordsworth and Leigh
Hunt, so / resolved to try a similar ex-
pertinent on Horne and Montgomery.
therefore, without acquainting either
with my design, asked them both to dine
with me. Upon my arrival at my house
with Montgomery, on the evening in
question, was privately informed by
my servants that Horne was in the libra
ny. Taking Montgomery into the room
L introduced them to each other under
the assumed names of Smith and Jones
Excusiug myself ON a plea of dressing
for dinner, left them alone. As neither
had seen the other before, thew were
puzzled they sat for few seconds gaz-
ing at each other In a state of pleasant
bewilderment. At last Mr.. Horne broke
the spell of silence by saying "Sir.
as l am not Mr.. Smith, perhaps you are
not Mr.. Jones. My name is Richard
Henry Horne"
70 which the other replied "And
1 am the Rev. Robert Montgomery. !"
And extending his hand he added ~
am very glad to meet you, my dear Mr..
Horne"
"The devil you are p exclaimed Mr..
Horne, grssping the proffered hand.
When returned, in few minutes. they
were laughing and chatting as though
they had been friends their whole life
They were mutually pleased with each
other, and maintained q pleasant social
intercourse from that time.
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Amusing Blunders.

Blunders on public occasions are often
as notifying as they are amusing. For
instance
At n military dinner in ireland, the
following was on the toast-list "May
the man who has lost one eye in the
glorious service of his beloved country
never see distress with the other" But
the person whose duty il was to read
the toast accidentally omitted the word
distress" which completely changed
the sentiment, and caused no end of
merriment by the blunder
Another instance may be quoted, if
only to show how careful people should
be in expressing themselves on public
occasions
A church in South London had been
erected, when a dinner was given. at the
conclusion of which the health of the
builder was proposed, when he rather
enigmatically replied that he was "more
fitted for the scaffold than for public
speaking"
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C. II. Wood, Esq, of the c. & T. Ry.,
Port Huron, Mich, favors our correspon-
dent with the following: After suffering for
nearly a year with rheumatism, receiv-
ing treatment from most of the best ply
sicians of Michigan and the West, I hap
pened to try a bottle of St Jacobs Oil
Upon the first application I used fully
half bottle, and its effect was almost in
Simultaneous. Immediately dropped all
other treatment, and confined myself to
its use alone. After the use of three bot
ties, instead of being driven to my bus
mess, or moving about on crutches, I
walked from one to three miles daily
about business, and have been free from
this horrible disease for over year, not
having the slightest twinge of it. Hence,
l say that all medicines known to me are
useless when compared with the Old
German Remedy Use this statement
when and where it suits Quincy (III.)
Daily Herald.
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Humorous Writing.

Almost every one privately INDUCES in
the idea that ne could become a cele-
brated humorist writer if he were only
to try.
He takes up a magazine or newspa-
per and reads humorous article, and
says to himself "If l only had time.
L could do vastly better than that -
Now, friend, suppose you take the
time and try
Ii you can produce a first-class hu-
mOrous sketch, your fortune Is made.
You need not plod on in contingencies
or vegetate behind the counters of dry
goods stores selling calico at a profit of
cents ON a yard. You can Just 90 on
with your first-class humor, and fix your
own valuation upon il, never fearing but
it will be paid.
But the fact of it is, you are a little
mistaken. This humorist business is
much easier in theory than in practice.
Anybody can criticise and find fault
with our funny writers, but the question
Is can that same anybody" do any bet
ter? If so, let him do it.
You think 1t n very easy and simple
thing to SIT down with pen In your fin
gers and sheet of paper before you
and indite thoughts which shall con-
vulse the world with laughter, and say
ings which shall be repeated for scores
of years to come?
Well, we are all willing you should
try, and when you achieve success we
will laugh at your witty things, and sun
ourselves in the flash of your diamonds,
and not feel any envy. We
are apt TO look upon humorous writing
as a pastime, as requiring less thought
and intellectual power than the heavier
essays which crowd our reviews but in
this we are mistaken. Your true hu-
morist must have wonderful imagina-
ton, observation, n keen sense OF the
ridiculous, a thorough understanding of
men, a generous power of language,
dclicacy, sensibiiity,s tenderness and a
strong love of humankind. The Thorn
Papers.
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The Pueblo Indians and Their Religious
Beliefs,

The word Pueblo means villages; and
the tribe of Indians that have lived in
this region take their name, Pueblo,
from the fact that they lived in Pueblos,
or villages.
The Pueblos have some peculiar ideas
of the future. They believe that at
death they VIII be carried away in some
mysterious manner to a place beneath a
n underground lake, where melons
and peaches and beautiful maidens and
horses are in neyer-ending supply for
the good.
The Zuni Indians have a tradition that
they were placed where they are in order
to be out of the reach of the deluge, of
which they have some account. The
tradition relates how the Great Spirit
set them apart as a chosen people, and
preserved them while all other tribes
and nations were drowned. They also
believe that all the people of the earth
are descended from the Zuni thus saved
from the deluge. This tradition has its
parallel with that given US in the Sacred
Scriptures.
They also believe that in Pecos "a vii
lage) Montezuma was born; that he grew
up with extraordinary mental powers;
that he travelled great deal and taught
the people many good things; that he
usually rode on the back of an eagle and
always went ahead of those who trav-
eled with him, and thus was, as was
the star to the wise men of the East, a
guide to them both day and night, and,
whenever the eagle stopped at night,
there was planted an Indian Pueblo.
The signwhere the great capital should be
built was the alghting of the eagle upon
a large cactus bush, and there devour-
ing rattlesnake. This, tradition has
1t, was on Montezuma's journey south,
and was his great and last journey. The
eagle stopped where the City of Mexico
now stands. The Mexican Government
has adopted the alighting of the eagle
as the design of the national seal, and
thus made memorable the legend. The
same design is also stamped on Mexican
coin. Montezuma never returned from
his southern trip, but in some mysteri-
GUS manner passed away to the. land of
the blessed, and since leads his people
by his spirit The City of Mexico was
founded in 1325.-NeaO Merjco Cor.
Chicago Tribune.
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Death from a Bush Fire.

In oneof Cooper's " Misunderstanding
Tales " there is graphic description of
a prairie fire. The novelist also de-
scrIbes how an Indian chief, caught
within its fiery embrace, saved his life
by hiding himself within the carcass of
a buffalo, which he had killed and. dis
emboweled. InAustralia a similar con-
migration Is known as a bush fire. -
The tragic story of one, which occurred
In South Australia, is relieved by no
such thrilling incident as Cooper's In
dams escape
Martin Mccarthy, with four of his
sons, left their matched homestead IN
the Hundred of Hunker to reap the
wheat which stood ripe for the sickle at
distance of about a mile.
They noticed a bush fire about dozen
miles off, but, as the wind was in the
opposite direction, they thought nothing
of it, and went on reaping till dinner
time.
Immediately after that meal, which
they took in the field, the wind veered
round, and, rising to hurricane, swept
the fire down upon their farm. Des-
perately plunging through the binding
smoke, they barely succeeded In gain
ing clearing 100 yards distant before
huge tongues of fire fifty feet high
rushed past them, roaring and kissing
as they licked up every vestige of veg
citation in their course.
When the flames had subsided, Nc
Carthy, followed by his boys, fastened
with terrible forebodings across the
plain, to see if any of his family had
been spared.
As he ran toward the chimney, which
alone remained to mark the site of his
dwelling, he stumbled over the charred
corpse of his wife.
A little further on was the body of hi
7-year-old boy, and round the Gimme,
lay the remains of his five daughters.
The eldest, girl of 10. clasped in
her arms the youngest, a baby of years
old. Accustomed as the colcnists are to
bush fires, this unusual holocaust cast
gloom over the neighborhood.
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Understanding.

An Indianapolis woman, speaking in
behalf of female suffrage, says "There
is no Joy like sphere-jumping. The
woman who does not want to vote misses
this most ecstatic of all delights. With
her feet on blue zephyr dog, her eyes
on the fashion-plate, and a quenchiess
love for her sphere in her heart, she
hears the mad mob of equal suffragists
go bowling by. Supported and sustained
in spirit by crochet-work, bric-a- brac,
and beautiful dissatisfaction, she has
no fear of falling victim to the cpl
dernic of advanced thought.
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His Little Mistake.

Merimee, in his Letters to Panizzi, -
tells a good story of Mrs. Caroline Nor
ton and Lord Suffolk, whom she had
bantered at a charity far to purchase
some trife at an exorbitant price.
Don't you know, " said his Lordship.
defending himself feebly, "that am
the prodigal SOM"
ono" was the answer; 81 thought
YOU were the fatted calf
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The Philadelphia Ledger of December
90, 1880, mentions among many Others
the case of Chief of Police of that city
Samuel H. Given, Esq, who says he
used st. Jacobs Oil in his family, for
various painful ailments, with excellent
results. He has also heard from many
who have used it for rheumatism, that Il
alone of all remedies did them good
FhiLddeLphio Times
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wanted to Find Ont

A burly ruffian, who has already served
five or six sentences, is brought before
the police. Just as they are about to
begin the examination, "Mr. President. I"
says he, my lawyer is indisposed. I
call for delay of one week"
"But you have been caught in open
misdemeanor, your hand in the pocket
of the plaintiff. What could your LAWYER
say for you?"
"Precisely, Mr.. President; I'm quite
curious to know. "-Paris paper.
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Taste.

An extensively furnished room is not
always attractive. A lady of refined
instinct and training, by means of q few
cheap but of their kind good pictures.
book engravings, cartoons, and such
like, bundle of strips and straws. some
pretty Japanese or Chinese decorations.
the ludicious appliance and arrangement
OF such pretty things as artistic taste
Will snggest-will do more toward max
ing little parlor charming, homelike
and artistic than thousands of dollars
spent on vulgar and inartistic arrange
ment.
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Bogus Certificate.

It is no vile drugged stuff, pretending to be
made of wonderful foreign roots, banks. &c
and pulled up by long bogus certificates OF pre-
effective medicine, made of well known vain,
able remedies, that furnishes its own certi6-
Gates by its cures. We refer to Hop Bitters
the purest and bestof medicines. See s'Truths''
and proverbs" in another column.
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Spiritual Movement.

Col. McSpilkins came home late from
the lodge the other night and raised a
mischief of row.
my dear, what is it that angers you
SO ?" asked Mrs. McSpilkins.
Well, amt it enough to make a
saint swear to have the chairs go pranc-
ing and proving around in such a blast
ed fool way?"
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what the Artists said.

Ivory Black, Esq" Do you know
onvthing of old Moss :? " (naming an IN
Madder Brown, Esq. =" By Jove
,es I should think did. And old Moss
lows as much about a picture as Jack
T B. (airily) =" Doesn't know as
,,o,,cb. I think. Jack Ketch would per-
haps know how to hang them
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-06-17

BALDHEADED men are informed there is but
one avenue Of escape from their affection, and
that is CARBoLISE, deOdorized extract Of pc
troleum. which being recently improved, rs more
INDIGESTION, dyspepsia, nervous prostration
and all forms of general debility renewed by
taking MENsMAN's PEPToNIZED BEEF Tonic, the
only preparation Of beef containing its entire
nutritious properties. 1t contains blOod-nak-
ing. force-generating and hfe-sustaining prop
critics: is Invaluable in all enfeebled conditions,
whether the result of exhaustion, nervous pros
tration. overwork, or acute disease, particularly
II resulting from pulmonary complaints, Cas-
we'll Hazard & Co. proprietors New York.
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According to the new orders, the Brit
ish regiments will in future adopt a ma
tional badge as follows English regl-
ments. rose Scotch regiments, this
tIe: Irish regiments, shamrock and
welsh regiments, dragon. The title
Of each regiment will be borne on the
sboulder-strap. The tacings and officers
lace will be, for English and Welsh regl,
ments, white facings, rose-pattern OF
lace Scotch regiments, yellow facings,
thistle lace Irish regiments, green fac
mos. shamrock lace royal regiments,
bl1e facings, retaining the national lace
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-06-17
statistics of Color Blindness.

Inl report of the committee appointed
by tif Ophthalmological Society of Lon
don, b collect statistics of cases of color
plindless, presents many features of
specla interest. The Secretary of the
committee, DIR. Bradley, with the assist
ance sixteen colleagues, has examined
1o,Oodpersons of all classes, of whom
1907 we're females. 1t is at on ce curl
Gus am suggestive to find that, while the
average percentage of color defects
among men Is 4.76, and 3.5 for very pro-
nouned defects, it falls in woman to the
low flWre of 0.4 This, if true, remarks
the Lndon Lancet, would seem to sug-
gest I new sphere of labor for women.
IL Woaen are comparatively free from
coior Kindness, they are so far specially
lnouciled for many of the less Iaborious
occupations IN which good color percep-
tlon lsdesirable or absolutely indispens-
able. 1t is satisfactory to find that these
last sttlstics confirm, IN the main ,Ithose
collected by the late DR.. George Wilson.
OF EdIburgh, nearly thirty years ago.
rms Respectfully noticeable as regards
the comparative frequency of color de-
fects along members of the Society of
Friend particularly among the poorer
sectlonof them. Though the members
Of the )phthalmological Society seem
either hot to have known the fact or to
have fGgotten it, DIR. Wilson found a
considerable number of eases Of color
blindiess among the members Of the
SocieF of Friends, and he was of opin-
Ion That this was not an accidental cir
'cumstnce. He further believed that
the lGge4 proportion OF cases of color
blinGiesswoIdd, on extended examina-
ton, be bund among the less-accom-
plished mile Friends in thellarger cities.
-Scjentifc- ABaertcGn.
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We want intelligent. energetic lady agents to
sell 10 WOMEN ONLY, an article of real hygienic
merit. For particulars and liberal terms ad-
dress WAGNER & CO., Chicago. III.
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Unlucky People.

A genuinely-unlucky man will entail
as much misery upon those who are de-
pendent upon or associated with him as
a genuinely-wicked one. They can never
be relied upon. Their speculations turn
ont i'll when those of stupider men sue
coed. Their inventions are Just little
anticipated by those they never heard
of. Their books or plays do not become
popular. Their crops are sure to be in
lured by the floods or the tornadoes j;
their vessels to be wrecked or burned !;
their houses consumed within the TWEEN
ty-four hours after the insurance policy
had expired, or the day before they had
resolved to take one out. Judges are
sure to rule adversely to their interests !;
juries always bring in verdicts against
them. Their letters are certain to go
astsay their baggage or expresses pack
ages TO be lost or stolen. 1t is they who
are always looking for their missing
knives, and are constantly wondering
where their hats or their umbrellas have
gone TO. The money they put into their
pocketbooks, or the pocketbooks they
put into their pockets mysteriously dis
appear. Even when they desire to be
prudent, and, with considerable sacri-
flee and pains, buy their potatoes, their
coal and other stores in advance at re-
duced rates, the prices of the succeed
ing winter invariably tall below what
they have paid. They are to be dread
ed as Jonah was dreaded. The boughs
of the trees they climb always break I;
the boats they row or sail always cap
size. The train they take is by no
means to be expected at its terminus
on time, and, even if late, should cause
gratitude that it got there at all. Or,
If they are not the victims, they are the
authors, of all sorts of involuntary mis-
chief. Altogether, shrewd old Roths-
child was wise when he counseled his
soDs to avoid unlucky men,"
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Az weakly women are strengthened by the
use of Lydia E. Pinkham's 'egetaole Coln-
Dound
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British Military Badges.

You Can't Afford
To be without Warmers Safe Kidney and Live
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K,psEY-woRT radically cure biliousness, piles
- ali nervous diseases.
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A Shoddy View Of Art.

A Yankee who had suddenly acquired
great wealth by speculation took it into
his head to travel, and, finding himself
at length In Florence, made visit to
Mr.. Powers studio. Looking over the
different statues, his eye rested ON the
" Greek Slave"
what may you call that air boy?"
he asked.
1.-The Greek Slave" replied the
sculptor.
"And what may be the price of it ?"
continued the Yankee.
Three thousand dollars" was the
answer, as Powers gazed on the odd
specimen of humanity before him.
Three Thousand dollars p he ex-
claimed; you don't say SO. now Why,
l thought of buying something on you,
but that's notch above me. Why. sta
tiary is riz, isn't it?"