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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



March- 



in tne Ooac anawaited for a favorable 

 moment to leap into the sea. At last, when 

 the boat was on the crest of a wave that 

 was sweeping toward the wreck, he jumped 

 overboard and the next instant was bat- 

 tling with the strength of three men with 

 the foaming water. 



The wave ran like a race horse and 

 dashed Wint against the rigging. He 

 grasped the ropes, climbed to where the 

 woman was lashed to the mast, and in a 

 few seconds had fastened the life preserver 

 around her. Tying the rope around her 

 waist, he signaled the men in the boat to 

 haul her aboard. It was a terrible trip to 

 make, but Dorothy arrived safe and sound. 

 The problem now was how to rescue the 

 man. 



The life preserver was fastened to a rope 

 and thrown overboard, in the hope that it 

 would float within Wint's reach, but it 

 didn't reach the mark Again and again it 

 was hauled in and cast overboard with- 

 out striking the rigging At every wave 

 the masts showed that they were growing 

 weaker, and it was expected by the men in 

 the lifeboat that they would go by the 

 board before the life preserver could be got 

 to Wint, but luckily the swirl in the wa- 

 ter as it broke over the wreck carried it 

 among the ropes, and Wint got it. He put 

 it on and was soon aboard the lifeboat. 



Dorothy's husband and all the crew of 

 the schooner were lost. The young wom- 

 an had no home, and what could she do? 

 Why, become Alix Wint's wife, of course, 

 and that was what she did two days after 

 her old lover rescued her from death. — 

 Omaha World Herald. 



DUELING THE VOGUE. 



Demosthenes paid 2 chalchi — that is, 

 less than 1 cent — lor two waxen tablets 

 to make a mem orandum. 



Woodpeckers fly opening and closing 

 their wings, and so are always rising or 

 falling in curves. When they run up 

 trees, they use their tails, which incline 

 downward, as a sort of support. 



A Great Iiandowner. 



A tourist was being driven over a 

 part of the country in Ireland where his 

 infernal majesty appeared to have given 

 his name to all the objects of interest 

 in the locality, for there was the Dev- 

 il's bridge, the Devil's caldron, the 

 Devil's glen, etc. Said the traveler: 



"The devil seems to be the greatest 

 landowner in these parts." 



"Ah, sure, your honor," replied the 

 jarvey, "that is so, but he lives in Eng- 

 land. I think he's what they call an 

 absentee landlord in Ireland. " — Loudon 

 Gentlewoman. 



All Classes In Continental Europe Taking- 

 to the Field of Honor. 



If is a curious feature of the age that 

 the practice of dueling, which has com- 

 pletely died out in this country, should 

 not only be still in vogue on the conti- 

 nent, but spreading with alarming rapid- 

 ity from the army and nobility to all 

 classes of the population. A peaceful citi- 

 zen who minds his own business in Aus- 

 tria is now liable at any hour of theda5'or 

 he night to receive a formal challenge 

 from his bootmaker or his banker, who 

 ft day or two later may assume for 

 this occasion only the character of his 

 butcher. In France, it is true, the affair 

 of '"honor" is seldom quite so dangerous- 

 as the weekly trials of skill among Ger- 

 man university students, known as "men- 

 Bur, " which often lead to the loss of a bit 

 of an ear or nose, always end in blood and 

 once in awhile culminate in death. 



In Italy, Austria, Hungary and other 

 lands an encounter of this kind is a nuich 

 more furiiiidable matter. Thousands of 

 well meaning men and promising youths 

 are yearly disabled, crippled or killed on 

 the altar of 'knightly honor." Every 

 man in those countries carries his life in 

 his hands, so to say, and journalism, pol- 

 itics, the bar, the army and navy — in a 

 word, every v.'alk of life except the church 

 — are closed to him who conscientiously 

 refuses to give or accept a challenge to 

 mortal combat on the slightest provoca- 

 tion, real or imaginary. Our foreign cor- 

 respondents have more than once described 

 sanguinary duels in the army the princi- 

 pals of which — mere lads still in the mili- 

 tary school — were bosom friends ignorant 

 of what they were fighting for. In one 

 case two youths were playing in the 

 schoolyard when an olliccr drew near and 

 asserted that one had touched the other on 

 the cheek and thus insulted him. 



The boys, who were in a better position 

 to know than a spectator looking down 

 from a two pair back window, denied tlie 

 statement cjuphatii'ally, but the ofTicer 

 gave one of tliem his choice between call- 

 ing out lii s friend and being expelled from 

 the establishment. The ""meeting" took 

 place a few days later, and when it was 

 over one of the two friends and comrades 

 had to be carried off to the hospifal dan- 

 gerously woui:ded and disabled for life. — 

 London Telegraph. 



Several flutes, still perfect and capable 

 of producing musical tones, have been 

 taken from the Egyptian catacombs. 



New London. Conn., was at first called 

 Taw agog 



