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THE AMEBIC AN BEE-KEEPER. 



ship, N. Y. secretary, H. Spring, Bel- 

 vide re, N. Y., treasurer. It starts 

 with a membership of twenty-five, and 

 bids fair to be one of the most pros- 

 perous associations in this part of the 

 state. 



Happy and eon lent is a home with 

 "The Rochester," a lamp with the 

 light ot the morning. 



For Catalogue write Hocheater Lump Co., 

 New York. 



LITERARY ITEMS, 



CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. 

 With faith unshadowed by the night, 



Undazzled by the t ay, 

 With hope that plumed thee for the flight, 



Ami courage to assay, 

 God sent thee from the crowded ark, 



e hrisl-bearer, like the dove. 

 To rind, o'er sundering waters dark, 



New lands tor conquering Love. 



— John B. Tubb in October Lippincott's. 



While the publishers of some mag- 

 .azines and periodicals in this country 

 .and Europe make offers and pre- 

 sent to their readers gift pictures 

 which may, or may not, be works of 

 art, the Godey Publishing Co., of 21 

 Park Row, New York, announce that 

 they present to each purchaser of Go- 

 dey 1 $ Magazine, published in its new 

 form September 15th, (for October,) 

 with an art subject which is worthy of 

 its name, and which is beautiful in 

 conception, drawing and coloring. 

 The subject is known as " Godey's 

 Idea of the 'World's- Fair'" The 

 publishers wish it understood that, in 

 addition to the magnificent October 

 uurnber, retailing for 25 cents, this 

 beautiful picture (size 7x29 inches) 

 will be given free as a supplement. 



E. P. Rowel 1 in the September JSeiv 

 England Magazine puts forward the 

 thousand and one arguments, com- 

 mercial, ethical and artistic, that can- 

 be made in favor of good highways. 

 This movement for improved country 

 roads is evidently here to stay. 



Rain-producing by artificial means 

 suggests to one of the contributors to 



the October number of the North 

 American Beview that a bureau must 

 necessarily be created in Washington 

 to control such efforts to assist nature, 

 and the writer, with not a little hu- 

 mor, hints that it will also be neces- 

 sary to establish safeguards against 

 the subjection of the new office to the 

 spoils system . 



A TWO HUNDRED DOLLAR PRIZE OFFER. 



Frank Lethe's H'eekhj, ever enterpris- 

 ing offers 6201) to the subscriber who 

 guesses nearest to the pleurality which 

 the candidate for the presidency may 

 receive. This means the plurality 

 of the popular vote, and not the elec- 

 toral vote. Frank Leslie's Weekly con- 

 tains nearly every week great front- 

 page cartoons, which quite equal those 

 of its lively contemporary, the Judge. 

 In illustrating the news events of the 

 week in its highest possible artistic 

 manner, and in giving also the latest 

 pictures of foreign events, it fills a 

 want that no other weekly in the coun- 

 try does. Frank Leslie's will be sent 

 for five weeks for 50 cents. This in- 

 cludes the privilege of guessing on 

 the plurality. 



VERY YOUNG. 



Judge's Library for September shows 

 a very picturesque and happy little 

 darky making a mid-day meal of the 

 ever present watermelon. This num- 

 ber of the Library will especially 

 please the children. What number, 

 in fact, does not? And it is filled 

 with all those oddities that the great 

 artists are, so skillful in depicting. 

 Never was so much laughter put in 

 pages for such a moderate amount as 

 Judge's Library. Every news-dealer 

 handles it, and if he does not, he can 

 make no better investment than by 

 sending ten cents to the Judge Pub- 

 lishing Co., 110 Fifth avenue, New 

 York. 



Ground Cork for packing. — We can 

 furnish this at 8c. per pound in small quan- 

 tities, or -S4 ■ per 10U pounds. It is the 

 best packing known. A bushel weighs 

 jabjut eight i otnda. 



