1895. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



43 



tfie succeHStui candidates, but ou the 

 Btrength of an opiuiou received from the 

 Bttorney general it was decided to con- 

 test her election, with the result that 

 Judge McC'lmtou overruled the demur- 

 rer of the complaint, which decides the 

 case as fai as the superior court is con- 

 cenred Miss Guptill's attorneys say 

 that they will appeal the case to the su- 

 preme court. — Seattle Post-Intelligen- 

 Ker. 



Knew His Business. 



"That's the seventh time this morn- 

 ing, " said the shoe merchant as a cus- 

 tomer left the store, "that you told me 

 in a tone of voice that couldn't escape 

 being overheard that a woman remind- 

 ed you of 'Trilby. ' " 



"Yes, " replied the new clerk, "and 

 that's the seventh woman that I've sold 

 a pair of shoes to." — Washington Star. 



One street in Pompeii was called 

 "Street of Dried Fruits," and in the 

 8hoi)s considerable quantities of figs, 

 raisins, plums and other fruits were 

 found. 



Some botanists believe that spelt is 

 derived from wheat by a process of cross 

 fertilization. 



WHYWOMEN MAKE POOR DETECTIVES 



A Secret Service Man Says the Opposite 

 Sex Make Bad Spies. 



"Womc]i are not good detectives, " 

 said an c xperieuced secret service man 

 on being asked his opinion. "To begin 

 with, there are many places to which a 

 woman cannot go without exciting sus- 

 picion, and this defeats her object at 

 the outset, but beyond this woman is 

 unfitted by nature for detective work. 



"In the first place, she jumps at a con- 

 clusion and acts on it in opposition to 

 all human probabilities, possibilities 

 and reason. As a rule, a woman does 

 not reason. She looks on a thing as she 

 wants it to bo or thinks it ought to be, 

 and wiJ] follow that theory. She is led 

 by pri jndice.s. favors or sympathies, re- 

 gardless of facts. 



"As a detective she is sometimes a 

 success in entrapping a man, but her 

 work generally ends in a blunder which 

 betrays her. She is persevering only 

 when moved by passion. She does not 

 look at a case dispassionately. She at 



once deciders that he or she is guilty or 

 innocent and works on that theory. 



"A woman enjoys the mysterious, and 

 she is so elated at her position as detect- 

 ive that she is unable to conceal her 

 identity or the secret investigations of 

 a case. 



"Women are even failures in running 

 down criminals of their own sex. A 

 woman criminal will mislead a woman 

 detective by working on her vanity, 

 credulity or sympathy, and, worst of 

 all, if the detective be attractive and 

 the man criminal handsome — well, a 

 man is better for detective work, and 

 besides a woman will sell out a case, 

 and cheaply at that, relying upon her 

 sex to escape punishment if detected. " 

 ^New York Herald. 



A MAN'S BEST IDEAS. 



An Old Student Says They Come Into the 

 Mind Unexpectedly. 



Professor von Helmholtz, the great 

 German scientist of imperishable fame, 

 not long before his death gave an inter- 

 esting reviev>' of his life work on the oc- 

 casion of the celebration of his seven- 

 tieth birthday, in which, among other 

 things, he reveals .some instructive fea- 

 tures of his habits of study and the proc- 

 ess by which he won his ideas as well 

 as the time and manner in which it was 

 his wont to commit the latter to paper: 

 "As it has frequently been my lot to 

 have to await in uncertainty the arrival 

 of appropriate thoughts and conceptions, 

 which then would break suddenly and 

 unheralded upon me, I have just gained 

 some experience in the management of 

 these capricious ideas. This may be of 

 utility to other students of like phys- 

 iological temperament. 



"The best ideas have often stolen si- 

 lently into the current of my thoi:ghts 

 while the latter were not employed in 

 seeking them. I know not by what proc- 

 ess of unconscious cerebration they were 

 evolved. I only knew that they were 

 there. Nor could I at first fully esti- 

 mate the importance of such unexpect- 

 ed but welcome visitors. 



"These ideas never introduced them- 

 selves when my brain was tired and al- 

 most never at my writing table. I had 

 first to turn my problem in all direc- 

 tions and envisage it from every side, 

 and thereafter to consign, it to my invol- 



