The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-29
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ZINC farmers in west stockbrid

Prof. Lounsbury of Cape Colony, South
Africa, has put in a dragnet order for
all the lady bugs that can be caught,
on the plea that they are wanted in
South Africa to eat up other very un-
lady like bugs which are devouring the
crops Prof Lounsbury's lady-bug or
der came in some way, presumably
through, the Agricultural Department,
to +. c. Tobey of Ossining-which used
to be Sing Sing-New York, and who
is understood to be equipped with a
large amount of bug-lore. Mr.. Tobey
has summer residence in West Stock
bridge, and he has undertaken the ac-
emulation of lady-bugs for export on
a comprehensive scale. He wants 100
small boys to enlist as hunters to chase
the lady bug to her lair. The bugs
swarm in great numbers in Berkshire
county and the boys are scooping them
in in great numbers.
In Life and Sport on the Pacific
Coast Horace "A. Vachel relates one Of
his narrow escapes from friends bull
let: MY cousin and 1 had been camp
ing and hunting for several days in a
sort of Paradise alley. One day, dur
ing long ride on horseback, we had
seen a great many rattlesnakes, and
killed a few-an exceptional expert
ence. That night my cousin woke up
and saw, by the light of the moon,
big RATHER crawling across my chest
He lay for moment fascinated, nor
ror- struck, watching the slnuous
curves of the reptile. Then he quietly
reached for his sixshooter. But ne
could not see the reptiles head, and
he moved nearer, noiselessly, yet quick
ly, dreading some movement on my
part that should precipitate the very
thing he dreaded. And then he saw
that it was not snake at all-only the
black and yellow stripe of my blanket
that gently rose and fell as 1 breathsd.
Had he fired-well, it might have been
bad for me, for he confessed that his
hand shook"
The recent feat Of the German
steamship Deutschland, in clipping her
Atlantic record to days, II hours and
5 minutes Ono record is apparently kept
of the odd second or two, although in
these racing days the captains may
adopt the stopwatch and enter them
in their logbooks), has drawn atten-
ton to the comparatively poor time
made by the Pacific liners running pc
tween San Francisco and the Phllp-
pines. The distance traVersed by the
Deutschland was 3,0S2 knots, and IL rs
claimed that if the shorter course had
very nearly touched that ultima thule
of all. shipbuilders-the five-day trip.
The distance between San Francisco
and Manila is under $500 miles by way
of the Hawaiian Islands, yet IT taxes
about a month to make the voyage.
Railroad travel between New YORK ana
San Francisco has been brought down
to about four days, and If the same
speed were maintained in the Paeifc
= he IL
bic to set the Gothamite down in Ma
Mia in very little more than couple
of weeks. In time we will no doubt
be hearing of the ten-day boat to our
.Asiatic possessions in much the same
way as the nautical journals keep trot-
ting out the five-day trip to Great
Britain.
The question Of new title for King
Edward VII is said to be keeping Lord
Salisbury and his cabinet awake
o'nights.- The task of finding such I'll
tie as will meet the unqualified appro-
baton of both the home folks and the
colonials is somewhat difficult prob
lem, and it is safe to say that the
present dispensation will not come out
of the maze with the same brilliant
aureole as did Disraeli,- when he added
Empress of India to the title of the
late Queen. Many changes have taken
place in the royal style and title since
William the Conqueror was crowned
in Westminster Abbey in 1866 as Rex
Angiorum" The first Edward was
called REX Angliae, Dominus Hiber-
Mae ct Dux Aquitaniae," leaving out
"Dux Normaniae," which had been
added by Henry II. The third Edward
made further change to Del Gratla,
Rex Angliae ct Franciae ct Dominus
Hibernate" Queen Elizabeth was the
first monarch to adopt an English de-
scription, Queen of England, France
and Ireland Defender of ~the Faith,
and James I. of course, added Scot
land The title of King of France was
discontinued by George III, just a hun
bred years ago; and no further alter
alton was made in the royal title I'M
til Queen Victoria added Empress of
India" in 1876.
According to an entomologist who
has been in Cuba studying the insects
of that island the bee of Cuba is not
the busy little bee that is known in
the United States. The American bee
is great hustler, and he has sustain
ed the honor conferred upon him in
the verses and short stories found In
the early readers But with the Cuban
bees it is different They are lazy, tri-
fling fellows, almost slovenly in the
way they do things, and in
the architecture of the hive they
do not show that delicacy and precis-
ion in the mater of finish and meas
ulement which have made the bee a
wonder to some of the men OF science
The traveller says he was. able to de-
tect some difference in the flavor OF
Cuban honey, some lack of that dainti-
ness of flavor found in the American
product. The Cuban bee has a sort oil
an ox-cart movement when he goes
about his work. The American bee is
snappy, quick, almost electrical Elk
planning the difference in the bees oil
! Cuba and America, the entomologist
says: "The Cuban bee has been sur
rounded by slow methods and awk-
ward, crude ways of doing things. He
simply reflects the life, the mannerisms
and the methods about him. He is still
the bee of the OK cart age and buzzes
about his business in an ox-cart giant
He is Cuban to the manner born. The
American bees industry may be ac-
counted for in the same way. He is
"A natural born hustler. He is an Amer
lean, full blooded and full-fledged."
In Italy, according to Marehess
Theodoll. who writes about What Cir
Life in Italy Means in the Ladies
| Home Journal for August, there is
| plenty OF loye-making, but not between