Arizona republican., 1896-11-10
MEN AND THINGS.

It has been found, on examining the eyesight of school children at Balh- more and in London, that their eyes are in many cases SO defective from i'm perfect vision that it is a serious ques- tion whether it is safe for them to con- tinue in school without medical treat menjt. It was found in Baltimore that out of 53,000 pairs of eyes examined, there were 9,051 pairs so defective that school work was unsafe. If this is the case in one city, what must it not be in other cities, and what is before the race of school children in regard to the use of their eyes? The London expert says that the eyesight of the children does not improve as they re- main longer in the London schools. It is plain that the children in these schools need proper instruction in the use of their eyes in order to save their eyesight.
 A cowboy who had vanquished every pony he ever undertook to break was induced to try an ostrich. After an hours hard work he succeeded in mounting the bird, which at first tried to shake him off, then to get away by running, but these tactics, of course, had no effect upon hhe cowboy. Then, in spite of all Hdhe man could do, the ostrich succeeded in getting his head around and seizing the man by one leg. He douhed his feet under him, and the ostrict reached over its wings and got a good hold of his back, throwing him heavily to the ground and tramp1ing on him. It took three men to chase tfhe infuriated os- trich away, and when it was aocomp- lishad it barely saved the mans life.
 Speaker Reed has been chuckling over his joke on Ed Hamilton of The Examiner As soon as Reed crossed the state line at the Colorado river, he found Hamilton there, waiting to interview him regarding the funding bill, and wherever Reed went after | that, Hamilton accom- panied him. One of Reeds illustrations which he used constantly was that expressed by the saying: Having more hayracks doesn1t make more hay" Now, Ed Hamilton, born and reared in Califor- nia, didn't know what a hayrack was, and thought it was mispronuncia- tion of "hay- rake" and he so informed the readers of The Examiner intend ing to sheer at the expense of Speaker Reeds i'll command pf the language MT. Reed has been chucking over this ever since, and in his speech in Oak land he took the pains Ito explain that a hay-rack is a kind of wagon for trans porting hay and Is not rake at all
 There are in the United States 11( apiarian societies, eight journals de voted exclusively ito the aparian indus. try and fifteen steam factories for the manufacture of hives and apiarian i'm plements. There are 300G00 persons engaged in the culture of the bee anG according to the United States census report, they produced in 1869, 14,6O3,
 815 pounds of honey, and in 1886 twenty years latter, 5, 1894 ,169 pounds According to the eleventh census, the value of the honey and wax production
 of the United States, at wholesale rates, was $7,000,000, and a conservative
 estimate of the present annual is $20,
 100000 AS supplementary to thest
 figures, it may be stated that in addi
 tion to the fifteen steam power factorie.
 there is a very large number of smalle.
 factories, using mainly hand and hors
 power, which are engaged in the pro
 duction of supplies, such as hives smokers, honey eNtractors, sections
 comb foundations and other apia1-iaa apparatus.
 Professor Comstock has about itwen ty men at work on the Elkhart min at Chloride