1895. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



107 



sympaifietic rriena exposed the fraud to 

 the victim, and the pasteboards were re 

 moved. — New York Recorder. 



New York Joarnalists — Their Pay. 



In New York city the salaries are higher 

 than anywhere else, partly because of the 

 superior standard of proficiency and partly 

 because the cost of living is greater here 

 than in any other large city. One editor 

 In chief has the same salary as the presi- 

 dent of the United States, $50,000 per 

 year, and others receive from $10,000 to 

 $12,000, or more than members of the cab- 

 inet. Managing editors are paid from 

 $100 to $150 per week, or better compen- 

 sation than that of senators and represent- 

 atives in congress. Editorial writers get 

 from $50 to $75 per week, as a rule, and 

 in cases of rare ability as much as the 

 average salary of a managing editor. City 

 editors receive from $50 to $75 per week 

 and in a few instances $100. The pay of 

 news editors is about equal to that of city 

 editors. 



Literary, theatrical and musical critics 

 average $50 per week. Copy readers are 

 paid from $40 to $45 per week. Reporters 

 earn all the way from $15 to $60 per week, 

 with an average of $40, and space writers 

 of particular talent have been known to 

 make as much as $125 per week, though , 

 the limitation of topics and the pressure 

 of competition usually keep their incomes 

 down around those of the best paid report- 

 ers. There are some writers for syndicates 

 of newspapers, men with names that have 

 a certain value, who earn from $5,000 to 

 $6,000 per year, and there are others of 

 first class technical capacity In various 

 lines whose salaries occasionally reach 

 $5,000 The pay of all classes of journal- 

 ists averages 10 per cent lower in Brook- 

 lyn than in New York city. — Forum. 



ON RONCADOR ISLAND. 



What Was Found by a Party la Search of 

 Marooned Sailors. 



In 1893 the gunboat Partridge was 

 sent by the commodore to ascertain the 

 truth or otherwise of a statement that 

 Bome men were marooned on Roncador, 

 a small coral island (300 by 200 feet) or 

 cay in the Caribbean sea. On arriving 

 at Roncador it was found occupied by 

 sea birds, especially boobiec!, in enor- 

 mous number. Some huts were also ob- 

 BetTcd. On landing and entering tho 

 largest hut the following picture met 

 the gaze of the explorers: Half .sitting, 

 half reclining, on a high trestle bed, and 

 partially supported by a makeshift 

 crutch, was something rigid and angular 



witniu a moKiy cotton shirt and'ca'hvas 

 trousers. Two rusty pannikins were 

 close at baud and fragments of skeleton 

 on the floor. These consisted of a skull, 

 vertebrse and some long bones. On the 

 bed were the bones of a hand, and a 

 number of land crabs scuttled about. The 

 floor waa covered with sea birds' eggs, 

 and many more -were found packed and 

 salted In wooden boxes. Some empty 

 cruet bottles were found near the eggs 

 and a box containing papers which 

 showed him to be a Dutchman. He had 

 served in the militia. 



The medical officer was able to de- 

 termine from an examination of the 

 skeleton that it belonged to a lad under 

 20 years of age. In another hut was 

 found the body of an old negro. The 

 story is clear enough. The well built 

 hut showed that the men had come pre- 

 pared to stay awhile. The empty boxes 

 showed that food had been at one time 

 abundant. Then provisions ran short. 

 The men subsisted for a time on sea 

 birds' eggs, and water was apparently 

 plentiful. Men cannot live long on eggs 

 and brackish water. Scurvy must occur. 

 This is the secret of the crutch in the 

 cabin. Disease had crippled before it 

 killed this young man. This explana- 

 tion rests entirely on circumstantial 

 evidence, but evidence so complete and 

 convincing, the reasoning so sound, yet 

 apparently so simple, as to make one 

 exclaim on reading it, Surely this is the 

 way of Zadig ! — London News. 



Taluable Instrumenta. 



An Italian paper says that the violon- 

 cello upon which Signer Pratti plays is 

 valued at $2, 000. It is a Ruggueri in- 

 strument. According to this same au- 

 thority, all the prominent fiddlers have 

 small fortunes invested in their violins. 

 Ysaye has a Guardagnini worth $1,200, 

 and Jean Gerardy plays upon a Guar- 

 nerius, valued at $4,000. Dr. Joachim 

 has a large collection of valuable vio- 

 lins. The Stradivarius that belonged to 

 Ernst, and said to be worth $10,000, has 

 come into the possession of Lady Halle. 



Th« I>*»r Girl*. 



Mist Sillisrirl — I think it's awful mean. 

 Thai horrid Green girl haa been saying 

 that 1 paint. 



Miss Mratiness — Never mind, dear. I 

 expect if sho hvA your complexion she'd 

 paint too. — Lont'in Quiver. 



