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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



factured honey that has never been in any 

 kind of comb, but is sold in pots. Under 

 the circumstances it seems to be rather 

 gratuitous indignation to resent such a state- 

 ment as a '• slander on an honest and repu- 

 table industry." 



All specialists are exceedingly sensitive 

 to whatever touches their hobby, and unwill- 

 ing to admit that they do not know all that 

 is known about it. A few weeks ago a 

 young archreologist called on a distinguished 

 professor of classical archajology in a Ger- 

 man university and stated that he was about 

 to publish a work on a certain kind of Gre- 

 cian vase. " There are no such vases," re- 

 torted the old professor. "But I have 

 quite a collection of them which I have 

 myself excavated," urged the young man. 

 " They are all falsifications," was the terse 

 and decisive answer. The simple fact was, 

 that the old professor had never seen any 

 vases of this sort. Rearing bees is not only 

 a useful business, but also a fascinating 

 study. If carried on as a specialty it suffers 

 from the vice of all hobbies ; even the prac- 

 tical apiarist, who hangs around hives all 

 his life, is apt to have " a bee in his bonnet." 

 Yours, etc., E. P, Evans. 



EEMAEKABLE CxLACIAL GEOOVINGS. 



Editor Popular Science Monthly : 



Sir : Several references to the fine deep 

 glacial groovings in the rocks at Kelley's Isl- 

 and, Ohio, have appeared in The Popular 

 Science Monthly, and there also appear men- 

 tions of the commendable efforts of scien- 

 tifically inclined gentlemen to purchase the 

 land and dedicate it to public uses and pres- 

 ervation. 



There are other places where the same 



action should be had, among them the groov- 

 ings at Watertown, N. Y., uncovered and 

 seen where an ancient glacial stream crosses 

 Black River. The writer has crossed the 

 continent four times upon different routes, 

 and observed many places where glaciation 

 has done its work, but in no place has he 

 observed more unique and characteristic 

 groovings than at Watertown. Lying in one 

 of these grooves, several feet deep, may be 

 seen immense bowlders weighing fifty tons 

 or more, just where a glacier stranded and 

 dropped its burden, showing as plainly how 

 the grooving has been done as a plow stand- 

 ing in the furrow where some plowman had 

 left it would tell its story. 



The field notes of the Geological Survey 

 of New York suggest that the river at some 

 time has deserted its channel and eroded a 

 new one from Watertown to Black River 

 Bay, but this is not the case; the present 

 channel is undoubtedly the original. At the 

 date of the survey, glaciation and its work 

 had not been much studied ; the geologist 

 mistook glacial erosion for earlier river ero- 

 sion. 



Another interesting point is the fact that 

 the present river has eroded its channel some 

 three feet deeper since the glacial era in the 

 hard, heavy-bedded, and sometimes flinty 

 bird's-eye limestone. 



The glacial groovings at Kelley'b Island 

 and at Watertown may both be referred to 

 the Adirondack Glacial period, belonging to 

 the same age and agencies. The St. Law- 

 rence River was then blocked with ice, and 

 turned back upon itself, emptying its floods 

 into the Ohio River. 



Visitors may find these groovings both 

 above and below the railroad bridge of the 

 Cape Vincent track. D. S. Martin. 



EDITOR'S TABLE. 



THE ATTACK ON INTELLECTUAL 

 LIBERTY IN GERMANY. 



A THING which most certainly no 

 one not snpernaturally illuminated 

 would have predicted has come to pass 

 in Germany. A young man of thirty, 

 who considers himself at once the father 

 and the master of the German people, 

 has intimated his good pleasure that 

 every child in the German Empire shall 

 have a theological education. It mat- 

 ters not what the parents of the chil- 

 dren think; it matters not what the 

 great body of the teachers think : his 

 Majesty has made up his very mature 



mind, and all other minds must bow will- 

 ingly or unwillingly to his decision. It 

 is quite possible that, before the words 

 we are now writing can appear in print, 

 the imperial dictator may have seen the 

 error of his ways, and may have con- 

 cluded not to try the patience and self- 

 respect of his subjects too far: none the 

 less will it remain a notable fact that the 

 possibility of fettering the German in- 

 tellect in the most arbitrary manner 

 should have occurred to a ruler of the 

 German people in the very last years of 

 the nineteenth century. We can not 

 but argue ill for the future of a man 



