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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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"iSut shu has not said so," interrupted 

 Mnie. Odiot mischievously, ■without giving 

 her danchtc'v time to reply, and having 

 hard wwrU herself to keep a serious face. 



"Yes, I h;. c, mother," cried Antoinette, 

 with deliglii;:ul simplicity. 



"Ah, Ani')iTiette! Antoinette! Thank 

 you, my d;i:-ling little cousin," exclaim 

 Gaston, nuui with joy. 



The yoiuia; girl had flung herself upon 

 her mother's neck and embraced her with 

 all her hotirt. 



"Naughty mother!" she murmured in 

 her ear as she kissed her. 



"You are crying still?" asked Mme. 

 Odiot happily. 



"Oh, u(j, chere petite mere. I am 

 ■laughing r.v.,v!" 



And, turr ii)g her radiant face toward 

 her uncle r.i •! cousin she placed her hand 

 in that cl' G ion and allowed him to draw 

 her to his s. < lider in a warm embrace. — 

 From the Fjxnch. 



■ .'as: iiiine I'rotes'i, 



',, '-:;.t i!:y wlTc would 



Just Thinking. 



She started across the street at Fourth 

 and Raci^, 1)ut wlien just half way over 

 came to a di^ad halt between the two car 

 tracks. Eviciently she did not see the two 

 cars bearing d(3wn upon her from opposite 

 directions nor hear the shouts directed at 

 her from bystanders and passengers. 



The motormen kicked their gongs vigor- 

 ously and put on brakes. There was a 

 general scramble in the dazed woman's 

 direction by half a dozen would be rescu- 

 ers, and still she did not move. The cars 

 were of the summer sort and the foot- 

 boards would surely catch her and grind 

 her to pieces if she was not snatched away 

 from the danger. Years seemed to pass in 

 the moments that followed, and just as 

 every one, including the policeman and 

 conductors, had turned to shut out from 

 their view the terrible accident that must 

 follow tlie cars came to a standstill within 

 two feet of eacli other. Then she came to 

 herself, and climbing into one of the cars 

 she sidled across it and out again on the 

 other side, while the crowd breathed a sigh 

 of relief. 



"That was a narrow escape, ma'am," 

 said the conductor nearest her. "What was 

 the matter? Just got frightened. I sup- 

 pose?" 



"No," she answered calmly; "I couldn't 

 for the life of me remember what I did 

 with that sample of white satin I wanted 

 to get matcJied, and I was trying to recol- 

 lect where it wa.s. " — Cincinnati Tribune. 



Elihu Burritt, "the learned black 

 smith," knew 18 languages. He was self 

 taught, generally neeiling only a dictiona- 

 ry and a grammar to master any language 

 he chose to learn. 



A 



"I wor.iler 



demanded a ''eavy looking man tho other 

 day, "if 1 : '.\:::vaA bring my tr.Uo.- into tl.o 

 house r.;Hl 1 vc]) J>im tln-re thr^e or foir. 

 days, snippii.T; a!Hl cutting and occiriying 

 all the coini; uh!e rooms, while .she hung 

 around (ui i ;k' ont.skirts, took her meals 

 between h.iv k and buzzard, and just lived 

 by tlio skin . 1 l;cr teeth?" 



"You f;-:' ;,.." interposed I, "thai your 

 wife does ilA ; fi'oiu motives of economy." 



"I don't I. .c.'.v why I should forget it," 

 he retorted L .■av.'^iely, "for she hammers it 

 at me inorni.g, noon and night. But I de- 

 ny the econt :iical part of it. By the time 

 the dressmaker has had her pay and her 

 three or fovii' meals it comes to about the 

 same thing a.^ would the bill of a compe- 

 tent party wiio does the work outside. 



"But even admitting that a few pennies 

 are saved, lo^k at the loss in other ways. 



"If I ask my wife to go out for a walk 

 or to read a Itjtter, or to listen to one that 

 I've written, she will say, 'I can't now, 



for I've got to help Mrs. galloon these 



braids.' " 



"There is no such thing as gallooning 

 braids," said I severely. "You are talking 

 nonsense," 



"Well, it's something just as absurd, " 

 he replied, "and I am tired of it. We can't 

 have any couversation at meals, and my 

 wife works f.s hard as the other woman 

 and gets a nervous fit from trying things 

 on; so altogei'lier I object." — New York 

 Recorder. 



Origin of a Phrase. 



Many years ago the wild deer that 

 roamed through the forests of England 

 used to dig lioles in the earth with their 

 fore feet. They pawed it out sometimes to 

 the depth of several inches, sometimes a 

 foot or more. These holes were called 

 "scrapes," and travelers at dusk or night, 

 or those who were careless about their foot- 

 ing, often tumbli^d into them. They were 

 laughed at for their heedlessness when 

 they came home covered with mud, and as 

 this frequently occurred after they had 

 been imbibing a bit, they were said to 

 have "gotten iutu a scrape." Sonae Cam 

 bridge students took up this expression, 

 and thus it came to be applied to people 

 who had gotten into difficulties of various 

 sorts. — New York Ledger. 



Margaret of Parma. 



Margaret of Parma was large, mentally 

 and physically. Her features were strong 

 and Qoarse, her voice masculine, and she 

 had a haiiy upi)er lii) and chin. One of 

 her contemporaries calls her "a man in 

 petticoats." She cursed and swore like a 

 man, and finally died of gout. 



