1895. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



345 



York doleclive foici.', aiid this man, 

 known to you as Mr. Fitz-Maurioe 

 Rodney, as I understand, is Jerry 

 Donohue, bank burglar, confidence 

 man and accomplished all around 

 crook. He's wanted for the South 

 Elkton bank robbery. We got hi? 

 pals three days ago, but he was Su 

 well covered we might not have run 

 BOross him for a long time if I hadn't 

 inspected where Molly was going 

 ■when she slipped out of town. And 

 he came near getting away as it was. 

 If he had got that wire you wanted 

 to send, old girl, he'd be far away 

 now. ' ' 



As Jerry already had a wife his 

 marriage with Selina Peyton was, 

 of course, void. In prison he sadly 

 reflects that he was "ruined by a 

 woman," but, like most men mak- 

 ing such retrospective lament, does 

 not really know which particular 

 woman did the mischief. 



Tossing: In a Blanket. 



Tossing in a blanket was formerly 

 a punishment for insubordinate vol- 

 nnteers during the Napoleon panic 

 period. The Westminster boys once 

 seized a bookseller, Curie, who had 

 pirated and published the head 

 king's scholar's oration without 

 permission, and after tossing him in 

 B blanket ducked him under the 

 pump and kicked him out of Dean's 

 yard. 



In the Alps. 



On reaching a certain spot the 

 driver turned round on his seat and 

 observed to the passengers: "From 

 this point the road is only accessible 

 to mules and donkeys. I must 

 therefore ask the gentlemen to get 

 out and proceed on foot." — Swiss 

 Paper. 



The active part of man consists of 

 powerful instincts, some of which 

 are gentle and continuous; others 

 violent and short; some baser, some 

 nobler, and all necessary. — F. W. 

 Newman. 



Queer Facts About Spiders. 



My attention was called by a clerk 

 in a drug store to a web which had 

 been superbly decorated with flakes 

 and scales of logwood. I thought at 

 first that this beautiful passemen- 

 terie efl'ect had been produced acci- 

 dentally, but after watching for a 

 few minutes I saw the spider de- 

 scend into the box of logwood, affix 

 a thread of silk to a flake of the dye, 

 hoist it to the web above and secure- 

 ly fasten it to one of the transverse 

 strands. The glittering scales mov- 

 ed at the slightest jar or when they 

 were struck by a current of air and 

 were dazzling to the eye. This little 

 decorative artist had indeed con. 

 structed a truly palatial residence. 



Some spiders unquestionably ara 

 affected by music to a marked de- 

 gree. 



On one occasion I noticed a spider 

 which had swung down from the 

 ceiling of a church and hung sus- 

 pended just above the organist's 

 hands. The organist informed me 

 that he had repeatedly noticed that 

 spiders were affected by music. Sev- 

 eral days afterward while seated at 

 the organ I observed the same spi- 

 der. Several tiines I drove her away 

 and enticed her back by playing al- 

 ternately soft andante and loud 

 bravura selections. Professor C. 

 Reclain, during a concert at Leipsic, 

 saw a spider descend from one of 

 the chandeliers while a violin solo 

 was being played, but as soon as the 

 orchestra began to sound it quickly 

 ran back acain.— Boston Herald. 



Complacency. 



"Yes," .'^aid Willie Wibbles, "I 

 went to the weception with a boil 

 on my neck." 



"And what did your friends think 

 of you'?" 



"All jealous, deah boy. It was 

 the swelJcst Ibiiig there." — Wash- 

 ington Star. 



