1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



of the qnet'u's jubilee the judges were 

 drawing up au address to the queen. 

 "Cousciou.s a.s we are of our shortcom- 

 ings," ran the addre.ss. "Conscious as 

 we are of oup another's shortcomings," 

 suggested Lord Bowen. 



Sometimes his wit was very incisi-ve, 

 BS, for instance, when he remarked : 

 "Truth will out — even in an affidavit." 

 Not the lr:ist happy of his recorded wit- 

 ticisms was the remark he made when 

 oongratuiated on his appointment to be 

 a law lord. He would, he said, find the 

 work easy, his duty being to give his 

 opinion after so many others had given 

 theirs. "In fact, I only have to agree, 

 aud might well have been raised to the 

 peerage as 'Lord Concurry. ' " 



irrog Egg CurioBitles. 



Frogs' eggs are laid before they really 

 become eggs in the true sense of that 

 word. They are always laid under wa- 

 ter, and when fir.st deposited are covered 

 with a sort of envelope in the shape of a 

 thin membrane. In this shape they are 

 very small, but as soon as they come in 

 contact with the water they rapidly ab- 

 sorb that element, and in so doing go 

 through a queer transformation. The 

 thin membrane containing the little 

 Beedlike eggs is quickly changed into 

 great lumps of a clear jelly like sub- 

 stance, each section joined to the other, 

 the whole forming a string from a few 

 inches to several feet in length. On the 

 inside of each of these lumps of jelly 

 the eggs come to perfection, and in due 

 course of time add their quota to the 

 frog population of the world. — St. Louis 

 Bepublic. 



The Achsean Hieagae. 



The Achaean league was formed by the 

 J 3 towns of Achifa for mutual protec- 

 tion against; foreign aggression. It was 

 broken up by Alexander the Great, but 

 reorganized B. C. 280 and again dis- 

 solved B. C. 147. The second of these 

 leagues comprised all the leading cities 

 of the Peloponnesus, and, indeed, most 

 of the cities and states of Greece. It was 

 this league which contended with the 

 Bomans for the independence of Greece; 

 but, its troops being defeated by Metel- 

 lus at Scarphaea and by Mummius near 

 Corinth, the league was dissolved, and 

 all Greece submitted to the Roman 

 domination. 



Kins: Alphonso's Tact. 



Alphoiiso king of Aragon, was one 

 day examining tlie different articles in 

 his jeweler's shop in company with 

 many ladies of his court. He had scarce 

 ly left the house when the jeweler miss- 

 ed a diamond of great value and ran 

 after hinj, complaining of the theft. The 

 king, not willing publicly to disgrace 

 any of his attendants, commanded a 

 large basin full of sand to be brought 

 him, into which ho directed each person 

 to put in the hand clinched and to draw 

 it out flat. By this means the diamond 

 was left in the sand, unknown by 

 whom. — Household Words. 



Not Interested. 



An old man and his wife were last sum- 

 mer sailing on a steamer between Black- 

 pool and the isle of Man. As the sea 

 was rather rough and the old woman 

 unaccustomed to sailing she said to her 

 husband : 



"Oh, John, this ship is going down." 

 "Well, never mind," said her hus- 

 band. "It isn't ours. " — London Fun. 



A Tramp's Trick. 



"Say, partner, yer from New York, 

 ain't ye?" I heard one tramp say to an- 

 other the other day as they sat sunning 

 themselves on opposite sides of the path 

 in Union square. 



The weary gentleman addressed made 

 an evasive reply intended to create the 

 impression of a negative without being 

 one in terms. 



"Yes, y'are," continued the first in 

 an aggravatingly persistent tone of 

 voice. "I've been watchin yer, an 

 yer've been keepin that foot o' yours 

 moviu all the time yer was asleep, an 

 th' ain't but one place in this country 

 where the gazabos learn that, an that's 

 in City Hall park, New York, where 

 yer have to give the cops some kind o' 

 excoos while yer settin up sleepin or 

 they'll run yer in. I've been there, 

 partner, an I kin do it myself. 



"But. say," and the voice assumed a 

 confidential, contemptuous tone, "you 

 don't have to do it in this town. " — San 

 Francisco Chronicle. 



The state of Iowa is so far from being 

 wholly agricultural that it has 59,174 

 persons engaged in its factories, whose 

 annual outpu t i s $125.049 ,183. 



