Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-19
al LUB HONEY, BUT AM DUN Wild BEES.

An old colored man living in the lower
part of this county went, few days ago,
to attend a prayer meeting, and, as is Gus
tomary among the colored folks, drove a
| yoke of oxen. He arrived at the church
at an early hour, and tied his oxen near
some bee. hives, and as it was too early for
the bees to be out he thought there was no
danger, so he left his oxen and went into
the church. 1t was later than usual when
the congregation met that morning. The
sun was shining brightly, and the bees
were beginning to stir; but the old man
was unconscious of everything that was
going on outside. nor did he realize the
situation of his oxen until he was startled
by wonderful noise outside. He looked,
and behold! The bees had become
enraged at such huge monsters be-
ing SO near to their homes, and
they went for that yoke of oxen.
By the time the old man had reached
the scene of action, the bees had
the oxen completely covered, and when the
old man attempted to brush them eff, this
only added fuel to the fire, for they left
the oxen and went for the old man, and be.
fore help could be obtained they had him
almost entirely covered, 80 they could
hardly tell whether he was a man or
swarm of bees. Just then young man
came to his relief, and taking the knife
from the old man, he attempted to cut the
rope with which the oxen were tied. But,
alas he staid long enough to receive one
sting, then threw down the knife and took
to his heels. The old man calledfor bag
and covered his head, but this only made
matters worse, for the bees became en-
tangled 10 his hair and stung him so badly
that lie was forced to leave his oxen and
run for his life. By the aid OF a physician
he was soon after restored, and the old man
now says: 81 lub honey. but am dun
with bees. u Hineville (Ga.) Gazette.
WHAT ARE SUN.SpoTs ?-Opinions re-
specting the nature of the sun.spots vary
widely Secchi thought they were clefts
filled with metallic vapors Weber and
Kirchhoff, that they were clouds of smoke;
Refs, that they were clouds of vaporized
oxyhdrate of iron and Faye, Zollner,
Gautier, Spiller and Sporer, that they were
dross formed by cooling of the SUMS fiery
matter. None of these theories is fully
satisfactory. The hypothesis Of clouds
of smoke hardly agrees with the immensely
high temperature we have to ascribe to
every part of the suns surface, and the
supposition of dross would require
greater degree of cooling than could pos
sibly take place there. Herr Edmund Won
Ludwighausen Wolff has advanced the
theory in "kosmos" that the spots, in
stead of being cooler, represent parts of
the sun that are vastly hotter than the
rest Of its body that is, that they are
regions in which all the heat. movements
have reached the intensity of the ultra
violet and invisible rays; consequently,
they appear dark. Herr Wolff remarks
that Secchi's observation that the spots
gave out not less but more heat than the
rest of the suns surface, and Fraunhofer's
that the forces that produce the spectrum
lines appear to be more active in the spots,
and the fact that flashes of light are fire.
quently seen to spring up from tie midst
of them, are contradictory to all previously
received theories, but agree fully with that
which he proposes, and are clearly explain.
able by it.