1800. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



19:! 



Reduction of Prices. 



Kdii.vDATioN has t)fen roduced .'>c a 

 [)()und from prices in our 18i)(i cata 

 losi". This is owing to tiie lower price 

 of wa\ 



Our .■•■ . I'ai.con Poushed Sec- 

 tions we now otter at S2.50 for 1000, 

 S4.50 for 2000, 8'i 41) for 3000, st^lO 

 for 5000. Less i'imm hkhi <.,ni,. ,,.•;,■- 

 es as formerly. 



BkesU'AX is lowi-r. We nre now 

 paying 22c cash or 2oc in trade, per 

 pound, delivered at our railroad sta- 

 tion. (Falconer. N. V). This price is 

 not guai-;inteed. We will pay highest 

 market price when wax is received. 

 Prices are liable to be reduced again 

 witliin ;i short time If you have any 

 wax lo .sell it is advisai)le to send it 

 now 



" A.MKlilCAX POISONS.'' 



The Frenchman, not without reason, calls 

 our iced drinks " American poisons." As 

 a matter of fact, cool spring water will allay 

 thirst much better than iced water ; hut it 

 is very ditticult to convince those addicted 

 to the iced -water habit of this fact. The 

 grave harm caused by iced water is from 

 swallowing it quickly and in large quanti- 

 ties. ]f sipped slowly and held in the 

 mouth for a motnent, the temperature is 

 raised appreciable before it reaches the 

 stomach, and its cooling effects reach that 

 part of the body where they are most need- 

 ed, — the head, thror.t, and upper part of 

 the chest. For this reason ice cream is 

 much less dangerous than iced water; we 

 eat it slowly, and it is not only entirely 

 melted, bu; also perceptibly warm before it 

 enters the stomach. 



This well-known fact, whicii everyone 

 can verify for himself, is entirely ignored 

 by those alarmists who draw so harrowing 

 pictures of the internal economy, represent- 

 ing the stomach and its contents as almost 

 paralized by the suddenly congealing in 

 liuence of the iniroduction of a mass of 

 frozen cream. Of course, if it were so the 

 danger would be immense, for when the 

 stomach is attending to its appointed duties 

 — actively engaged in the process of digest- 

 ion — it is a little furnace, and any tamper- 

 ing with its tires results in the immediate 

 discjrnfort of its owner and overseer 



When yon deluge it with ii.'ed drinks vou 

 put out the lires, and irrested digestion 

 ine.iiis -Ai-nXv ciiin Miifl much discinifurt. 

 I'lm't ask it to do so fnuch work wht-u the 

 thfniDiiieter gilt's aho\e 80°; then the tiies 

 will not liiiAM-! to he so hot, aii<l yon will uc^t 

 sufli.-'r fiMin what you I'eel is a criiisuuiiiig 

 tiiirsi —-From " Sviiniier Hv/ittie." in Dan- 



The Kamaoulie Koloko, or bell, is 

 one of the most curious sights iu To- 

 bolsk. This bell is called by the Rus- 

 sians "the bell with tbe ear torn off" 

 and is kept iu a kind of shed near the 

 archbishop's palace, where its romantic 

 history is always to be heard. Iu the 

 sixteenth century Prince Dimitri, the 

 rightful heir to the Russian throne, was 

 deposed by a revolt headed by Boris 

 Goduuctl, who was then proclaimed 

 czar. The seat of the Russian govern- 

 ment was at Uglich, and there Dimitri 

 was sent to be under the immediate con- 

 trol of the unlawful ruler. 



Tbe usurper, fearing that the popu- 

 lace ruighi' awake to the claims of the 

 young prince, planned his assassination, 

 and he was cue day stabbed iu the yard, 

 none of the bystanders showing the 

 slightest disposition to help him. 



A priest, however, who saw the crime 

 fron^ the cathedral belfry, immediately 

 commenced to toll the great bell, which 

 was only rung on such occasions as the 

 coronation of the czar. 



The czar, furious at this expression 

 of reproach, commanded that the priest 

 should be tortured and executed, and 

 that tbe bell should be pulled down and 

 placed beside the body of its ringer. 

 The order was fulfilled, and the bell 

 was beaten by the whole populace head- 

 ed by the c?;:ir l;i-,:.;«]f 



in tno:-( rJan exiles were 



tortured be, out on their .jour- 



ney by having u.i-ir nostrils torn off 

 with redbot piucLois. It was decreed 

 that the beil should be exiled to Tobolsk, 

 but as it had no nostrils the ruler of all 

 the RussJas commanded, with grim 

 humor, that one of its clappers should 

 be removed in order to indicate its dis- 

 grace. — London Tit-Bits. 



The first hint of paper making in Eu- 

 rope was in Const ajJtiiicple. The proc- 

 ess was brought from China by way of 

 Siinitu'kaud in A. D. iibl. 



