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IRE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



them very Thoroughly, and as far as 

 I am concerned I have no fear of the 

 bee moth — in fact hardly consider it 

 the plague some of our writers would 

 have us believe. But to be on the 

 safe side fumigate comb honey as de- 

 scribed, for you may have a weak 

 stock, or if a black stock, there is 

 sure to be moth-worms — for we Snd 

 three black stocks to one Italian 

 troubled with the moth-worm. — W. 

 B. T. 



LITERARY ITEMS, 



INTERESTING TO LOVERS OF MUSIC. 



The July number of Brainard's 

 Musical World is out and contains be- 

 sides the usual amount of interesting 

 reading matter, four pieces of new 

 music: "Told in Song," a beautiful 

 ballad by Geo. Schleiffarth ; " Valse 

 Lente," by Schutt; "Fair Columbia 

 March" and "Goose Step March," all 

 new and pleasing pieces. Mailed 

 post-paid for 15 ceuts in stamps. The 

 World is publbhed monthly at $1.50 

 per year, and to enable every music 

 lover to examine it, the publishers 

 will (during July only) upon receipt 

 of twenty two-cent stamps, mail to 

 any address, the numbers for April, 

 May June and July, containing sev- 

 enteen pieces of choice music; or for 

 ten two-cent stamps, two numbers 

 will be sent. For eight two-cent 

 stamps they will send the "Musicians' 

 ■Guide," a 212 page volume of musical 

 information. Address, The S, Brain- 

 ard's Sons Co., Chicago, 111. 



Years and years ago our great 

 grandmothers carded wool and cotton 

 by hand, spun it into thread, and 

 wove the thread into cloth on a hand 

 loom. The wheels and looms are a 

 thing of the past in this section, but 



in some part- of the South they still 

 use the spinning wheel and hand 

 loom. They are quaint old things, 

 and side by side with the new ma- 

 chinery of to-day the managers of the 

 Southern Department of the Buffalo, 

 N. Y., Exposition will show them in 

 full operation; the obi colored women 

 operating the cards, wheel and loom. 



Starting off to a summer resort, or 

 for a week's vacation , or upon a tramp 

 with a gun, or to visit your relations 

 in the country, there is one compan- 

 ion that you will not regret taking 

 with you — a copy of the July Co&nio- 

 politan. It contains a wide range of 

 subjects for summer reading — twenty- 

 two articles, mostly illustrated. Stop 

 at your newsdealers and carry away a 

 copy of this splendidly illustrated 

 monthly. 



The Duke of Argyll contributes to 

 the North American Review for A.ugust 

 a paper entitled "English Elections 

 and Home Rule." He seeks to estab- 

 lish in the article that the principles 

 of secession and the maintenance of 

 the union as fought out in America 

 are identical with the Irish question. 



Professor Eiihu Thomson, the in- 

 ventor ami brains of the Thomson- 

 Houston Eiectric Company, contrib- 

 utes an entertaining, scientific and 

 thoughtful paper on " Future Elec- 

 trical Development," to the July New 

 England Magazine. He explains the 

 possibilities of electricity, in all the 

 public, and private conveniences of 

 life, and gives practical examples of 

 its application to manufactures, rapid 

 transit, and domestic offices, such as 

 cooking, ironing, heating, gardening, 

 raising fruit and vegetables, etc., etc. 



