THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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WEEKLY EDITION 



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Names That Mislead. 





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PUBLISHED BY 



THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



EDITOIt AND PHOPRIETOR, 



925 WEST MADISQN-STREET, CHICAGO, ILL 



Weekly, S2 ft year ; Monthly, SO cents. 



Vol. XXI. February 18, 1885, No. 7. 



Frost Work on the Window. 



SLLA J. MBADB. 



Mountains and valleys, blossoming trees. 



Temple, cathedral, fane. 

 Beautiful flowers, and birds, and bees- 

 All on the window-pane ; 

 Done by a painter whose name is known 



Only by matchless art- 

 Mystical touch of an icy hand, 

 Breath of a frozen heart. 



Rivers of crystal and trees of life. 

 Heavenly mansions fair. 



Love and its joys where there is no strife- 

 All of these "Over There ;" 



Only revealed by the icy hand 

 And by the frozen breath 



Of the mysterious pow'r we name 

 King of all Terrors— Death. 



—Chicago Tribune. 



®° On the 9th inst. the Bingham 

 Smoker Factory caught Are — and all 

 " ended in smoke." It was partly in- 

 sured. Fortunately, Mr. Bingham had 

 his finished smokers stored in another 

 building. 



W Mr. W. B. Stephens, of Steuben 

 Co., N. Y., has sent us a sample of a 

 reversible frame. It is similar to 

 Novice's tin point, but the tin runs to 

 the centre of the outside of the side- 

 bar, and is there fastened with a wire 

 nail clinched, and reverses on that 

 pivot. 



i^° A periodical in the Golden 

 State says that " A bee-keeper at 

 Riverside, Calif., has 33 colonies of 

 bees which produced, dui-ing the last 

 season, T^ tons of honey, an average 

 of nearly 440 pounds to the colony. 



W The winter meeting of the Bay 

 of Quinte Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will be held at the City Hall, Belle- 

 ville, Ont., Feb. 26, 188-5, at 1 p. m. 



The Providence Journal calls atten- 

 tion to some curiositiesjof misnomer : 

 " Black lead " is not lead at all, but a 

 compound of carbon and a small 

 quantity of iron. 



"Brazilian grass" never grew in 

 Brazil, and is not grass ; it is nothing 

 but strips of Palm leaf. 



" Burgundy pitch " is not pitch, and 

 does not come from Burgundy ; the 

 greater part of it is resin and Palm- 

 oil. 



" Catgut" is made from the entrails 

 of sheep. 



"Cuttle-bone" is not bone, but a 

 kind of chalk once enclosed in the 

 fossil remains of extinct specimens of 

 cuttle-fish. 



" German silver " was not invented 

 in Germany, and does not contain a 

 particle of silver. 



"Cleopatra's needle '' was not built 

 by the Egyptian queen, nor in her 

 honor. 



" Pompey's pillar "had no historical 

 connection with Pompey in any way. 



"Sealing-wax" does not contain a 

 particle of wax, but is composed of 

 Venice turpentine, shellac and cinna- 

 bar. 



The " tube-rose" is not a rose, but a 

 species of Polianthes. 



" Turkish baths " did not originate 

 in Turkey, and are not baths, but 

 heated chambers. 



" Whalebone " is not bone, and is 

 said not to possess a single property of 

 bone. 



In the vocabulary of Bee-Keeping 

 we find similar misnomers: "Artifi- 

 cial Comb " is not comb at all, but 

 refers to sheets of wax, with corruga- 

 tions, marking out the bases of the 

 cells on either side. 



An " Artificial Swarm " is not a 

 swarm, but one part of a divided col- 

 ony of bees. 



" Candied Honey " is not " incrusted 

 or preserved with sugar," but pure 

 honey granulated. 



" Dollar Queens " are not queens in 

 any sense of the word— they are fe- 

 male bees which may become mothers, 

 but will never " reign like a queen;" 

 neither are they always sold for a 

 dollar, the price varying from $1..50 in 

 the spring, to SO cents in the fall. 



"Grape Sugar" is not "sugar," 

 neither is it obtained from grapes, but 

 f roin corn by the action of sulphuric 

 acid. 



" Honey-Dew " is neither honey nor 

 dew, but exudations from plant-lice, 

 aphidffi, etc. 



Many other " names that mislead " 

 may be enumerated, but these curiosi- 

 ties of apicultiiral misnomer are suffi- 

 cient to show tlial there is a great 

 necessity for " calling things by their 

 right names." 



Dead Bees on the Snow. 



In reply to an enquiry in the Prairie 

 Farmer, Mrs. L, Harrison remarks as 

 follows : 



It is an immutable law of nature 

 that all living things must die, and 

 bees are no exception to the rule. 

 During the working season, the limit 

 of bees' lives is about 90 days ; during 

 hibernation it is much longer. Among 

 the lower animals, as death ap- 

 proaches, it appears tliat their instinct 

 is to withdraw from their fellows and 

 die in retirement. The loss of bees 

 by flying out and dropping in the 

 snow is only trivial ; the major part 

 seen lying in the snow, died in the 

 hive, and were carried out by their 

 companions. It will not do to stop 

 up the entrances ; it is necessary for 

 them to be open, so that, if mild days 

 occur, the bees can fly out for cleans- 

 ing ; and also have ah opportunity to 

 carry out the dead, so that the air in 

 the hive may be kept pure. If the 

 hive is closed, the accumulating dead 

 soon prevent the entrance of fresh 

 air, and the decaying stench breeds 

 disease and death. Experiments have 

 been made with bees, during zero 

 weather, by taking off the cover and 

 bottom of the hive ; yet the bees did 

 not perish. Dampness and foul air 

 are the worst enemies of bees. 



The above will answer several simi- 

 lar questions sent to this office. 



i^" While in New Orleans we shall 

 " put up " at the Hotel Windsor, 

 which is kept on the European plan, 

 and is located just opposite the U. S. 

 Government Building, Exposition 

 Grounds, Corner of St, Charles Ave. 

 It contains .500 sleeping-rooms, Ladies' 

 Parlor and Reception Rooms, Gents' 

 Reading Room and office, all on first 

 floor. Two lines of cars pass the 

 hotel for down town every minute. 

 Rates, one dollar per day for each 

 person. There is a Restaurant in 

 connection with the Hotel, where 

 meals can be obtained. 



1^ While ten men watch for 

 chances, one man makes chances. 

 While ten men watch for something to 

 turn up, one turns something up ; so 

 while ten fail, one succeeds and is 

 called a man of luck — the favorite of 

 fortune. There is no luck like pluck, 

 and fortune must favor those who are 

 most indifferent to fortune.— i^x. 



