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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Death ofCIias. Bianconcini 



— The February number of VApicoUore, 

 the official organ of the Central Associa- 

 tion for the Encouragement of Apicul- 

 ture in Italy, contains the following 

 which Mr. Frank Benton has translated 

 for the American Bee Journal : 



Another distinguished and meritorious 

 apiarist, Count Carlo Bianconcini, has 

 departed this life. We reproduce the 

 obituary received from Mr. Lucio Paglia, 

 and, uniting with him in bewailing our 

 deceased colleague, we send to the be- 

 reaved family expressions of sincere 

 condolence. 



"Furnished with the last sacraments 

 of our Catholic religion, Cav. Count 

 Carlo Bianconcini, engineer and former 

 artillery captain, died at his residence in 

 Bologna on Jan. 10, 1892. 



"Endowed by nature with great in- 

 genuity, and sustained by a good hearts 

 the worthy seat of humane and elevated 

 sentiments, whoever had recourse to 

 him was made the recipient of wise 

 counsels. Receiving all without distinc- 

 tion, but with innate affability, he left 

 them satisfied and charmed with his 

 familiar and genteel ways. He loved 

 God, his country, and his family, and 

 has left in tears and deepest affliction 

 his wife — the Countess Maria, and their 

 only child — the little Countess Editta, as 

 well as all who knew him. 



"Having retired from military life, 

 he devoted himself wholly and indefati- 

 gably to the most important occupations, 

 and to the study of agriculture and re- 

 lated industries, acquiring through his 

 writings the esteem not alone of eminent 

 persons versed in these matters, but 

 even of the royal government by which 

 he was often called to the capital and 

 consulted on questions in viticulture and 

 oenology. 



"Among agricultural industries api- 

 culture stood first in his thoughts. He 

 held it in high estimation, and occupied 

 himself with it personally and with pre- 

 dilection, always attaining, even in the 

 less favorable years, an adequate com- 

 pensation for his assiduous care, as can 

 be seen by the accounts which he was 

 pleased to publish in the columns of 

 VApicuUorc. He had his apiary at 

 Poggio Renatico, Province of Ferrara, 

 formerly his home. The hive he pr(>- 

 ferred was that of wSartori. An enthusi- 

 astic apiarist, he acted as an apostle of 

 the rational system of bee-keeping by 

 means of movable combs, and had not a 

 few followers. A ready speaker, he 



entertained his listeners in this way by 

 the hour, and the delight — the profit 

 which his disciples obtained from the 

 instruction of their beloved master was 

 only to be compared to the satisfaction 

 and the extreme pleasure with which it 

 was imparted. It was his personal and 

 thoroughly radical conviction that to 

 succeed in apiculture it was necessary 

 to commence with one or two colonies 

 alone, and to augment the number 

 gradually. That this maxim was right 

 is proved by the splendid result that he 

 knew how to obtain. 



" He is no more. Apiculture has lost 

 in Count Bianconcini a warm and de- 

 cided sustainer, an expert and intelligent 

 operator, and we can only lament his 

 early demise, and implore peace for his 

 ashes." 



JTackson Park will retain as one 

 of its permanent attractions the build- 

 ing which Japan will erect for its head- 

 quarters at the Exposition. The building 

 will be modeled after one of the most 

 famous and architecturally unique of 

 Japan's ancient temples, and with its 

 surrounding garden will cost $70,000. 

 About 40,000 square feet will be oc- 

 cupied. 



The South Park commissioners have 

 accepted the ofifer of S. Tegima, repre- 

 sentative of the Mikado, to give the 

 structure to Chicago on condition that it 

 be kept permanent, and in repair, and 

 that one room in it be devoted to a pub- 

 lic exhibit of Japanese works of art, 

 which the Japanese government agrees 

 to replenish from time to time. 



A Oeritian Scientist announces 

 with some justifiable pride that he has 

 discovered a way of converting the 

 cellulose of wood into grape sugar, 

 making thereof an appetizing comesti- 

 ble. In polite circles lunches of rose- 

 wood piano legs will probably be served, 

 while toothpicks will take rank as a 

 genuine dessert. — Chica<jo News. 



That is no worse than to have old 

 boot-legs made into glucose, and then 

 have it fraudulently sold for extracted- 

 honey. 



