Evening journal., 1898-04-13
IAYFARER' S NOTE BOOK
hings, Pleasant and Unpleas-
ant, Caught on the Way.
ITS ON PERSONS AND THINGS

"
II YOU READ THEM BEFORE SUP
PER THEY WILL AID YOUR d.
GEsTIoN, BUT THERE is MOTH
ING PUT IN THEM TO LULL YOU
TO SLEEP.
THE WOMAN AND THE BEES.
Insects will follow what they feed
4pon. The Wayfarer has read that on
De Mississippi there are floating
piaTies containing hundreds, and pos
81 bly, thousands of hives, of bees.
4 long the banks of that great stream
here grows a Towering willow which
j much liked by the little honey
Nlakers. The bee men begin down in
louisiana as soon as the willows there
#egin to flower, and, as the season, ad-
ances, they work their barges up
#tream with it, their bees feeding and
baking honey as they go. BY the time
4he willows have ceased to bloom the
"a ives are filed and the drift for home
begins.
This was recalled to the memory OF
4he Wayfarer by an incident which oc-
&urred on a Delaware avenue car on
Saturday. He walked in and took a
+ eat near the door. A middle-aged wO
Hnan, of rather determined mein, was
Between him and the door, and She
WAS fidgeting about at a great rate.
q 7She was. .jaibbing her glOved finger Vi
,iously at something on the window
&sill. The Wayfarer turned and look
I'D, and found that two fat and we'll
o-dO honey bees were the source of
+ her annoyance. She was afraid that
hey would crawl up on her dress and
sting her. At last she killed one and
brushed it off, and a passenger killed
he other for her. The representatives
bf thrift and industry doubtless came
into town with the Easter flowers and
bit last found their way into the car.
A SCRAP OF HISTORY.
Il wish to call public attention to a
scrap Of history not generally known,
said a friend TO the Wayfarer to-day.
/ Il see in the Encyclopaedia Britannica
that the English, under Admiral Po-
cock and the Duke of AIbemarle, cap
ttured Havana in 1862, but it was re-
stored to the Spaniards on the 10th of
February, 1868. in exchange for the
.Floridas." i"
F WHERE ANIMAL LIFE T1RIVES.
New York may brag of Central Park;
s philadelphia of its Geological Garden;
. Baltimore of Druid Hill Park and its
little black bear with the toothache;
ShellpOt Park of it's monkeys; Atlantic
+ City of its sharks and other marine
monsters in tanks; New Jersey of its
mosquitoes; Florida Of its alligators
. and water hyacinth; California of its
. yellowtails and trap-dOor spiders, and
Australia of its kangaroos, but. when
it comes to diversity of animal life
Morrison's Point at the confluence O.
. the Christiana river and BrandywinC
creek, surpasses them all. There an
nine rabbit hounds, fifteen puppies, on,
cat, five kittens, two young alligators
one setter pup, and, ordinarily, two ol
three tame muskrats This does no
. include the tadpoles and minnows il
the aquarium at Woods Hole; or tn
. ornithological and piscatorial exhibi
at Lawton's Point, Immediately below
II a phosphate bag and a heavy ston
are not soon called into requisition
police census Of the inhabitants o
Cherry Island will have to be taken
THEY. ARE BECOMING SCARCE.
1t isn't often that we run across
coin of that sort nowadays" said
street car conductor to the Wayfarer.
As he spoke he opened his hand anf
disclosed. one of those little three-cen
silver pieces so common fifteen or twen
ty years ago, but now almost out o
circulation.
Chow did you come to get that?
asked the Wayfarer.
THE day Of the Peninsula excursion
a passenger boarded the car, and whe
went to her for her fare she handle
me two OF these, and 1 had to give he
a penny change I think that it is tn
first time in all Of my. experience, tha
such a thing has happened to me,
said the conductor.
VANDAIlS AT WORK.
Thieves and vandals are at work i
that beautiful city of the dead know
as Riverview Cemetery. The Wayfare
is told that not only are flowers stole
from the burial lots, but also from th
very graves themselves. Acts of var
dalism, Of a character more or less as