caused by poor workmanship on the 

 part of the bee-keeper. As before 

 stated, we do not believe any manufac- 

 turer of comb foundation is now using 

 anything in it but pure wax. 



1^ A correspondent says he has sent 

 money to Tremontani, in Italy, last 

 April, for queens, and gets no answer, 

 and wants to know if that is his way of 

 doing business. So far as our experi- 

 ence goes, it is. We sent him money 

 by draft on Paris, in March, and still 

 get no queens from him. We have had 

 to procure them elsewhere, after hav- 

 ing paid him for them. We learn from 

 several dealers in imported queens 

 that he has served them in a similar 

 manner this season. He seems to have 

 no conception of how business should 

 be transacted. He will probably send 

 the queens when he gets nothing else 

 to think about. We intend to have 

 nothing more to do with him. We 

 learn that A. J. King, P. L. Viallon, 

 and others, have come to the same 

 conclusion. We would not have had 

 the trouble he has caused us this season, 

 for all the queens he could send us in a 

 year. All shoidd be cautious about 

 dealing with him. 



A Model Bee-Keeper.— The editor 

 of the Des Arc (Arkansas) Citizen, has 

 given us his views of apiculture in that 

 State in the following language, which 

 appeared in his paper on the 9th ult : 



" We had the pleasure of looking 

 through Dr. Hipolite's apiary last week, 

 at DeVall's Bluff, and was forced to 

 come to the conclusion that he was the 

 model bee-keeper of Arkansas. Every- 

 thing connected with his apiary is kept 

 in the neatest order possible, and no 

 man can be more perfectly at home 

 with his bees. We would like to see 

 bee-culture more general in Prairie 

 county, and to that end we suggest that 

 a bee-keepers' association be formed in 

 this county. Prairie is far ahead of the 

 rest of the State in bee-keeping, and 

 should be the first to organize such an 

 association. Let us hear from the bee- 

 keepers of Prairie on this subject." 



In 1875 we took a trip down through 

 that State, and noticing the many ad- 

 vantages it presents for the successful 



management of bees, we wondered why 

 it was so far behind in modern appli- 

 ances and apicultural progress. By all 

 means let there be an association 

 formed— and let Dr. H. be the light 

 thereof. 



i^-PriendE. C.Jordan, of Jordan's 

 Springs, Va., is a famous cultivator 

 of vegetables as well as a passionate 

 lover of the bee. He also keeps an 

 excellent hotel at the celebrated White 

 Sulphur Springs, as we notice by the 

 papers in that locality. The " heated 

 season" of the past month makes us 

 wish we could accept friend Jordan's 

 generous invitation to us to go and stay 

 awhile at his " cool retreat;" but alas a 

 rush of business that keeps us "red 

 hot" all the time, forbids us from even 

 thinking of such " a heavenly rest." 

 Thanks, friend J., for the "cool in- 

 tent." We must be contented witli be- 

 ing " present in spirit " with you, while 

 being " absent in body." Selah. 



Dead Letter Office Facts, 



We have often referred to the neces- 

 sity for more care being exercised in 

 addressing letters to this office — par- 

 ticularly in the matter of addressing 

 the letter, stamping it, and in giving 

 very plainly the name of the writer, 

 and the post office address in full. That 

 there is a necessity for this let the fol- 

 lowing facts demonstrate : 



There are 4,000,000 dead letters received yearly at 

 the dead letter office. 



Three hundred thousand without stamps. 



Fifty thousand, partially addressed. 



Six thousand, no address. 



Forty thousand dollars in money, nine-tenths of 

 which is returned, the balance remaining in the 

 treasury, subject to application, for four years. 



One and a half million of money orders and drafts 

 of money value. 



Forty-flve thousand packages containing property. 



Fifteen thousand photographs. 



Quarter of a million of European letters are re- 

 turned unopened. 



One-tenth of all the letters received contain 

 property. 



i^An Iowa exchange says that a 

 farm hand in that State, actuated by 

 curiosity, tipped up a bee hive in order 

 to find out what the bees were doing. 

 He knows now. They were making 

 chain-lightning, and lots of it. 



