1895 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



135 



rtiwa' ]CS' call nc^ LiWc to' short. Do yo' 

 wan' to know heJ^age? She's jes' 25. I'm 

 65. Dat's a little discrepshon in our ages, 

 but it don' matter. What money I makes 

 I get at de top o' telegraph poles — dat Is, 

 I'm a lineman. " 



After venturing these remarks the old 

 man stopped a minute to renew his sup- 

 ply of oxygen and then inquired the fee. 



"Dat's purty strong, mistar. It's a 

 purty costly bizness, dis her' gettin mar- 

 ried, even when I'ze gwine to git a young 

 an han'som' bride," said the old man as 

 he fumbled in an aged purse and laid three 

 quarters, two dimes and a nickel before 

 the clerk. — Nashville Times. 



THE MOON'S CLIMATE. 



The Military Salute. 



The military salute required in almost 

 all civilized countries is nearly the same. 

 Perhaps in Germany, however, the regu 

 lations are somewhat more stringent. A 

 soldier on meeting the emperor has to 

 stand still, face about and remain wich 

 hand raised for from 13 to 20 paces before 

 his majesty approaches and for the same 

 distance after he -has passed. In Belgium 

 an officer has to do the same thing for the 

 king and subalterns for generals, though 

 ten paces only are required for the latter 

 case. Solditu's carrying anything so that 

 their hands are quite occupied salute with 

 their eyes — that is, they turn their heads 

 in the direction of the person coming and 

 going. French officers raise their caps to 

 each other, but the privates do as the pri- 

 vates in other armies do. — London Stand- 

 ard. 



The Clove as a Preventive of Nausea. 



The funny men in the alleged funny pa- 

 pers, says Dr. E. B. Sangree in the Phila- 

 delphia Times and Register, have so long 

 made merry over the man with the cloven 

 breath that I am rather timid about advo- 

 cating this odoriferous spice. Yet my expe- 

 rience has been that the clove is a good 

 antinauseant. Persons who get ''qualms" 

 when riding in the cars or on boats can al- 

 most certainly quiet them by slowly chew- 

 ing a clove or two. Indigestion, accom- 

 panied by formation of gas, nausea and 

 dizziness, will often yield to the same sim- 

 ple measure. There are other and better 

 means of accomplishing these results, but 

 the value of the clove is that it occupies so 

 little room, is so easily carried about and 

 can be so readily got when wanted. 



Grown Cold. 



Wife — Oh, George, I fear your love has 

 grown cold. 



Husband — Well, if it has, it is only be- 

 cause it is trying to match the steak and 

 coffee you give me every morning.— D# 

 troit Free Press. 



Why Our Satellite Is Subject to Great Ex- 

 tremes of Heat and Cold. 



In illustration of the important cli- 

 matic effects of an atmosphere, I need 

 do little more than cite the case of the 

 moou. Our satellite is practically at the 

 same distance from the sun as the earth, 

 and in its case also internal heat has no 

 present effect on the temperature of its 

 superficial portions. It would therefore 

 seem that, so far as stm heat iS^fcceru- 

 ed, the moon must be in much the same 

 condition as the earth. But if we thence 

 deduced the inference that the tempera- 

 ture conditions prevailing on our satel- 

 lite bear any resemblance to the tem- 

 perature conditions prevailing on the 

 earth we should make a great mistake. 



Observations of the moon's heat show 

 that its surface is exposed to a tren:en- 

 dous range of temperature, extending to 

 hundreds of degrees. It has been dem- 

 onstrated that the temperature of the 

 moou under the full glare of the sun 

 rises to a point in excess of that of boil- 

 ing water, while it is equally certain that 

 when the sunbeams are withdrawn the 

 temperature of the moou sinks to a point 

 far below that with which any arctic ex- 

 plorer has made us acqinainted. Here, 

 then, is a globe fed just as we are, with 

 sunbeams, and yet undergoing tremen- 

 dous vicis.'itudes of climate, surpassing 

 any changes endured by the earth. 



The climatic difference between these 

 two neighboring globes is certainly con- 

 nected with the fact that the moou has 

 very little atmosphere, even if it be not 

 completely destitute thereof. Our at- 

 mosphtrn acts as a climatic regulator. It 

 reduces tl:e degree in which the intense 

 fervor of the sun affects the earth, and 

 it mitigates the rigor of the cold to 

 which the earth would be exposed when 

 the sunbeams are witlidrawn. Such an 

 ameliorating agent is absent from the 

 moon, Tv^.d ht:;ce arise those violent 

 extremes of its climatic condition. 



We tjjus .'ee what jjotent factors the 

 existence and the extent of an atmos- 

 phere become in determining the na- 

 ture of the climate that a planet is to 

 have. We do not know enough regard- 

 ing the atmospheres of Mars, Venus 

 and Mercury to be able to draw any cer- 

 tain conclusions with regard to their 



