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2' HE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



THE CIVIL WAR. 



Some Facts Tor Folks Who Are 'Sot Sure 

 When It i:nded. 



Mauy people think Appomattox 

 marked the eud cf the war, as Surutfir 

 did its begi lining. As a mutter of fact 

 the war did not end officially until 

 Aug. 20, 1866, when President Johnson 

 issued a proclamation aunouuciug that 

 war was at an end and that peace, or- 

 der and tranquillity and civil authority 

 existed in all the states. While Lee's 

 surrender was not the end of the war, 

 it was the beginning of the end. John- 

 ston surrendered on April 26, Dick Tay- 

 lor on May 4 and Kir by Smith not 

 until May 26. On May 13, more than 

 a mouth after Lee's surrender, a sharp 

 fight took place at Palmetto Ranch, in 

 Texas, which is called by Jefferson 

 Davis and other authorities the last 

 battle of the war. The commander of 

 the Union troops, mostly colored, says 

 in his report: 



"The last volley of the war, it is be- 

 lieved, was fired by the Sixty-second 

 United States Colored infantry, about 

 sunset on May 13, 1865, between 

 White's ranch and the Boca Chica, 

 Texas." In this fight, which took place 

 on the American side of the Rio Grande 

 river, the Mexican Imperialists sent 

 over a body of cavalry, which aided the 

 Confederates in their last and success- 

 ful attack. On June 13 Tennessee was 

 declared at peace; June 23 the blockade 

 was raised; July 22 Grant made his 

 last official report; April 2, 1866, procla- 

 mation that Georgia, South Carolina, 

 Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, 

 Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missis- 

 sippi and Florida were tranquil was is- 

 sued by the president; Aug. 20, 1866, 

 war was officially declared ended. The 

 latter date was in 1867 fixed by congress 

 as the official and legal date of the close 

 of the war. — New York World. 

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Picked Him Out. 



A teacher was introducing a lesson on 

 "A Flint Stone" by a few remarks upon 

 the primitive savage. After detailing 

 many characteristics he wound up with: 



"He was very rough, using no knife or 

 fork, but eating wi»-h his fingers. Now, 

 who was this?" 



Johnny— Please, air, our lodger, sir." -■ 

 London Tit-Bits. 



The Human Body. 



The human body is an epitome iu na- 

 ture of all mechanics, all hydraulics, 

 all architecture, all machinery of ev- 

 ery kind. There are more than 310 

 mechanical movements known to me- 

 chanics today, and all of these are but 

 modifications of those found in the hu- 

 man body Here are found all the bars, 

 levers, joints, pulleys, pumps, pipes, 

 wheels and axles, ball and socket move- 

 ments, beams, girders, trusses, buffers, 

 arches, columns, cables and support! 

 known to science. At every point man'v 

 best mechanical work can be shown ti; 

 be but adaptations of processes of the 

 human body, a revelation of first prin 

 ciples used in nature. 



Not His Luck. 



Mrs. Peck — Here's another case of i 

 man who forgot to appear on his wed- 

 ding day. 



Henri Peck — And ye* they call ab- 

 jentmindeduess a misfortune. — Pbila- 

 dfelnhia North Amerirau. 



Honey and Beeswax Market Report. 



Below we give tlie latest and most authen- 

 tic report of the Honey and Beeswax market 

 ia different trade centei-s : 



Kansas City, Mo., Dec 20, 1897.-The demand 

 for honey is fair. Good supply. Price of eomb 10 

 to 11!/2C per lb. Extracted 4)/^ to 6c per lb. Good 

 demand for l!eeswax. No supply. Prices 2-5 to 27c 

 per lb. Very little extracted honey on the market' 

 Hambli.v & Bearss, 514 Walnut St. 



Detroit, Mich.. D ec. 26, 1897.— Fair demand for 

 honey. Good Supply. Price of white 11 to 12c 

 per lb. Other grades 8 to lie. Extracted light 5 

 to 6c; dark 4 to.ic per lb. Good demand for bees, 

 wax. Fair supply. Price 25 to 26c per lb. The 

 failure of the apple crop here has helped the sales 

 of honey very much. 



M. H. Hunt. Bell Branch. Mich. 



Boston, Mass., Dec. 20, 1897.— Good demand 

 for honey. Fair supply. Price of comb, fancy 13c; 

 No. 1, 11 to 12c. Extracted 6 to 7c per lb. Good 

 demand for beeswax, practically no supply. Price 

 27c per lb. 



Blake, Scott & Lee, 57 Chatham St. 



Cincinnati, 0.. Dec. 23.1897.— There is no change 

 in prices, and demand is rather slow on account of 

 the holiuay season. We quote 10 to 14e as the range 

 of price for best white comb honey and 3J^ to 6c 

 for extracted honey, according to quality. Demand 

 is fair for beeswax at 20 to 26c for good to choice 

 yellow. Supply fair 



Chas. F. Muth & Son 

 S. E. Cor, Freeman and Central Aves. 



