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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



Septcutber 



"Htivo you sail, simor?"' 



"Yt!s, " I said, "I have sadness, also 

 sickuess. I would go back to camp at 

 once. ' ' 



As I di'ew on my spattered coat and vest 

 over tired siiuis, 1 said, most earuestl}-, 

 "Lucia Eukiiia Garcia y Valdez, I shall 

 never forget this day of the fiesta of San 

 Guadalupe." 



Nor iiave I. — S. B. Metcalfe in Argo- 

 naut. 



The Brooklyn Dialect. 



Perhaps the most notable tendency 

 ■which Brooklvuites display in speaking is 

 that of putting an r sound on every word 

 ending in a or aw. Eight of ten people you 

 bear say mommer and popper and the 

 idear, also lawr, sawr, jawr, etc. Another 

 peculiarity c^imnionly encountered is that 

 attending the pronunciation of oi in such 

 words as oil, point, etc. Oil as given by 

 Brooklyn people is not quite so bad as orl, 

 but comes jjretty near it, a sort of r sound 

 being introduced. 



On the contrary, when the sound of r 

 shouldn't be distinctly heard it is fre- 

 quently omitted in such words as world, 

 first, third, pronounced woild, foist and 

 thoid. This peculiarity is, however, more 

 characteristic of New Yorkers than of 

 Brooklynites. The Latin prefix per in per- 

 spiration and in perhaps is often pro- 

 nounced as though it were pre, as prespi- 

 ration and prehaps. In fact, it was only 

 the other day that a professor in the boys' 

 high school, an English teacher and a doc- 

 tor of philosojjhy, was heard to remark 

 that " 'prehaps' something was so." Some 

 other mistakes frequently made are carous- 

 el for carrousel, again for agen, ben for 

 been and sa^'sy for saucy. 



The worst barbarism, however, is prac- 

 ticed in pronouncing proper names. Who 

 but a Brooklyuite would have the courage 

 to pronounce Schernierhoru as Skemma- 

 horn? Elevated railroad guards, whose 

 chief duty it is to call out the correct 

 names of tlie stations, will invariably ex- 

 claim Elluin place and Norstand avenue. 

 Have we no belt(^r way to honor the mem- 

 ory of those two great men. Putnam and 

 Lafayette, than to call the streets named 

 after them Pootnam avenue and Layfay- 

 ette avenue? Or is it because Brooklynites 

 do not know who these men were? Cer- 

 tainly it cannot be on account of their 

 ignorance of history, because these mis- 

 takes occur not infrequently among people 

 seemingly well educated. — Brooklyn Ea- 

 gle. 



Hard on the Poor Farmer. 



The oppression of the poor western 

 farmer still goes on apace. In Nebraska 

 the supreme court of the state has just 



lauen trom mm a lucracive means oi nve- 

 liliood. For years there has been a law iu 

 the state requiring railroad engineers to 

 whistle at every highway crossing and im- 

 posing a fine of $50 for every failure to do 

 so, half the fine going to the informer. 



For some reason engineers have not been 

 able to do all the whistling required by 

 this law, perhaps from need of some steam 

 for running the locomotive, and the farm- 

 ers have made a great deal of money by 

 watching tlie crossings and bringing suit 

 against the companies for infractions of 

 the law. 



Every suit tints brought has heretofore 

 been deciiUnl against the companies, and 

 the law has cost them a great deal of mon- 

 ey. One farmer recently got a verdict for 

 $3, .500 whistling money against the Union 

 Pacific. The supreme coitrt has finally de- 

 clared the law unconstitutional. — New 

 York Sun. 



The Brook Farm House Today. 



The Brook Farm house is now a German 

 orphan asyltim, supported by some 

 union of charities in Boston, writes Heze- 

 kiah Butter worth in The Ladies' Home 

 Journal. Large additions have been made 

 to the solid house associated with Profess- 

 or Ripley's literary and philosophical com- 

 muitity, then called the "phalanstery." 

 To an eye Y\\^v Thoreau's it woitld be re- 

 garded as a beautiful estate, but its charms 

 are stibtie and simple. The brook sings 

 forever by the roadside under the pond 

 willows and goes winding through matted 

 grass of rich pastures to the river Charles, 

 that glitters afar, a silver sheen guarded 

 by priestly savins. The hills are hearsed 

 with pines. A little way from the old 

 hotise is the so called Margaret Fuller cot- 

 tage, and a little beyond, iu a long, cloudy 

 cloister of pines that forever chant the 

 monotonous sweetness of the passing 

 world's life, is Pulpit rock, where, accord- 

 ing to tradition, the apostle Eliot used to 

 preach. 



Prussian Dairymaids, 



In the great Elbing dairies iu West 

 Pritssia the dairymaids are not permitted 

 to wear corsets. The different grades of 

 proficiency are indicated by the caps worn; 

 the milkmaids wear wliite caps, the pupils 

 white also, with the addition, however, of 

 black velvet ))ands, and the dairy teachers 

 caps with silver lace. Many daughters of 

 the landed nobility take a coitrse in this 

 work, but all alike wear the uniform pre- 

 scribed. This is not a skirt, but waist and 

 knickerbockers. It is fotind that this is 

 the most cleanly and comfortable and serv- 

 iceable in an occtipatiou subject to various 

 accidents. 



