Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-12-20
Scientific Legerdemain.
From Table Talk.
In these days of adulteration,


In these days of adulteration,
When all things are not what they seem,
And everything is something else,
1t is no more miraculous that olive oil should
be squeezed out of peanut than that Java
coffee should be ground out of the chicory
root or that black pepper be only another
name for pulverized cocoanut Shells Science
is making such rapid stride helping us in our
gastronomic need that nature herself must get
out of the way or she will be run over. Even
the poor honey bee was accused. not of lazi-
ness. for that would have been too palpable an
injustice, but Of being too slow and spending
too much time over the clover heads.
II will remedy all that" said Science.
And she did. Shutting up the bees, she
knocked the head out of barrel of glucose and
told them to go to work and help themselves
which they did faithfully. Theirlong journeys
to and from the Towering fields being done
away with they had nothing to interfere with
their getting down to actual business. The
scheme was q success, for the honey was piled
into the combs in treble abundance and in one
| third the usual time.
And vet Science wasn't satisfied.
Greedily she put her wits to work. whats
the use of going to the expense of buying bees?
can make the comb quicker and quite as well
as they; and as for the honeywell, glucose is
honeyr'
And so the occupation of the honey bee being
Boue, 81 itsI as ~ udu any udu III WHAT IL KNOWN
as the 'honey of commerce." it now confines
itself in small way to home manufacture, sam
Piles of which, if the reader particularly wants,
he must particularly search for.
Rev. John Marshall. Presbyterian minister
at Rockford, Tenn, was married at Chicago
yesterday to Mrs. Eliza Bertman, of West Con-
cord, MINI. The groom is sixty-seven and the
bride seventy-two years of age.
The New York Telegram says that Jay Gould
has been ordered by his physicians to take an
other sea voyage for his health. and will sail
on the yacht ATLANTA for the Bermudas about
Christmas.
Gen. Jacob D. Cox has resigned as chancel-
lOr Of the Cincinnati university on the ground
that the money paid him as salary can be better
expended for apparatus and library.
The Despatch, which ran aground Tuesday
in the Delaware river over Peters Island. was
hauled off at high tide yesterday morning
Twenty -One persons, pauper Russians, Arabs
and Poles, recent arrivals, are held at Castle
Garden awaiting the action of Collector Magone
John Wanamaker, Of Philadelphia, has
written letter, in which he says it is untrue
that he ever gave penny or raised a large
consciences and buy the suffrage of the poor
people Of Delaware or outside of it.
Near Huntington, W. Va, two children named
Requa and their grandmother persisted in the
house of Martin Requa Tuesday night. The
house was burned to the ground.
The hollow-ware hands in Savery's factory,
Jersey City, N. j., have been voluntarily given
10 per cent increase in wages since the abol-
ishment of the convict labor in New York.
The gunboat Yorktown was given run of
about 40 miles down the Delaware yesterday.
1t is said that the vessel developed consider
ably more than the guaranteed 5000 horse
power.