Year: 1874

0ET L IENDHIO l.
machinery. The diplomacy of the mother
and the harmless arts Of the daughter are
giving way to the more simple and more ex-
peditious system of matrimonial agencies.
An English reader would have some trouble
in conceving the progress made within year
or two by that extraordinary business, and
not even a German can forecast its future
possibilities. 1t is not enough that there are
women who in seductive advertisements, make
known their benevolent purposes, and who,
in modest apartments and in private way,
bring the anxious together. Not even the
slender veil of that degree Of prudishness is
now thrown over the traffic. There are now
great offices, with their managers their mat
rons, their ledgers, and hierarchy Of clerks,
and which offer applicants Of either sex choice
from two to three hundred candidates. They
issue their catalogues, like the old book shops,
and omit no important details Thus the
candidates will be classified something like
this: 1.-TWO hundred and fifty maidens from
the bourgoise, IT'S widows of the same class,
80 maidens and widows from the aristocracy,
with fortunes, &c. ;" find OH the other side,
1900 gentlemen, merchants, and that class,
100 government officials, 30 country land
owners, &C." And recently the business has
risen to the dignity of an organ of its own.
The Matrimonial Journal, issued weekly con.
tains the advertisements of the agencies as
we'll as of candidates themselves, notices OF
books, and miscellaneous matter we'll calcula.
ted to set forth the beauties of married life
and to encourage the waveripg.


CURIOUS INSTINCTS OF THE BEE.-Honey
bees are governed by instinct and not by art.
They never deviate from the course they were
created in. The first comb they ever built
was as perfect as at the present day; no art
has improved the shape or size One bee lays
all the eggs, while the others raise the young
and protect them each bee does its part Of
the labor in gathering in the stores and nurs-
ing the young and have noticed for some
years past their mode of gathering pollen or
after food, it alights on some kind of flower
and gathers part of its load; then goes to
another of the same kind, and perhaps third,
to obtain load. Another bees goes out and
if it alghts on another kind of flower it keeps
to that kind till it gets load. But how is
this known? You 60 to the hive and watch
them as they comein; some have yellow pol
len on their legs others have light color; 9th
ers have dark but no bee has two colors on
his legs. Ifyou see any, you will see more
than have, for never did and have sup
posed that they stored it in different cells for
change of food. The other day in over.
hauling hive, 1 broke out new piece Of
comb and found the different colors in differ
ent cells, which confirmed my belief; for |
suppose they like change of food as we'll as
humans.


Another curiosity is their coming out and
alighting before going off; for amongst the
hundreds that have hived 1 never had one
swarm leave direct from the hive. Another
curious thing is their rearing the males and
nursing them so tenderly; and after they be-
come useless they destroy them. But instinct
has directed them to do it. Another curious
thing is that, when they get to be too hume.
rous, the mother bee should call out part OF
the brood to 90 with her and leave the others
to take care of the young Why not call
them all out to 90 with her? Because instinct
has ordered it otherwise. Certain ones 60
out with her while others are coming in with
stores for future use A certain part of them
don't seem to have any inclination to follow
the mother bee, nor do they mourn her loss,
for another is provided.


"TAKE IT Our AS You DID BEFORE" "A
certain quasi commercial "agent," travelling
in the North of England, stopped at COM
mercial house. He ordered dinner, and en-
joyed himself after the usual fashion of the
craft-the "pint of port" not being omitted.
When he was about to depart he called up
mine host, and gravely informed him that be
was very sorry he had no money to pay the
bill, but that, if allowed to leave in peace, he
would one day return and square up. Now,
the landlord had been victimized in that way
before, and was irate. He said he would take
it out of his customer by kicking him down
the steps Of the hotel, and he d id so.


Some time afterward, to the landlords in.
tense astonishment, the "commerciap' reap'
peared. He was polite and forgiving; he
bore no malice, he said, and he should be glad
if mine host would favor him on this improv-
ed occasion with his company at dinner The
victualler was taken aback he felt that on
the previous occasion he had been harsh and
had misjudged his customer, and with pro-
fuse apologies he consented to dine with the
man he had before violently elected from the
house. The Commercial" ordered capital
dinner, bottle or 80 of the best wine in the
cellar, and it was altogether remarkably
pleasant party of two. Politics were discussed,
trade was ventilated, and all went on merrily
till the good things were exhausted. Then
the dinner-giver rose and in the coolest man.
ner possible, addressed the landlord as fol-
lows:


II have very much enjoyed this entertain.
ment but as to the bill, | am afraid you will
have to take that out as you did before!


THE FIRST BANK-The first real bank, in
the modern sense of the term, was that of
Amsterdam. And even this, although estab-
lished 80 late as 1909, confined itself to a mar
row field of operations in comparison with
that of our present banking system. 1t was
simply place of safe deposit, designed only
to give security, to facilitate the transfer of
funds, and to afford some protection against
losses from the debased and foreign coinage
THAT flooded the city. The bank lent no
money; its vaults were always supposed to
contain the full equivalent in specie of all
the funds entrusted to its care. Its only
source of profit was the large compensation
exacted from the depositor, for the privilege
of having his money securely locked up in
the vaults of the establishment. TO the mod
ern banker, always eager to receive deposits,
and often willing to give large interest upon
them, this would seem very surprising state
of affairs. Evidently capital has gained, even