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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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^1 r.'cii r':::r:: vaMsn. 



A rx-la:; ' !'.c^:i he jp^r v/ho keeps an 

 UL in. :e:it-( ViH ct',. ]. :i. hmciit in Algiers 

 not t'X ixoiix thepL;i::::njcrBta(iou cf the 

 SoiiiLtiU Tc.:-— rt.il *v ay sajs that in 

 fuiur.) Lo v,"ill Lct tuko baggage in se- 

 curifv frr bci.iu ".vithout havii.'g it pho- 

 togrn.phed Tiiickr the X rtiys. "Ouo 

 tiouili Loio, " Baid be, "a well dressed 

 fellow who owed me for two weeks' 

 board carue to me a:.d told n^e that as 

 he was iu fiuaiiciul difficulties of a 

 purely teiiipcrary ciiaractcr he would 

 like to leave Liy valise ii) security for 

 the bill. He said he vv-ould redeem it iu 

 ► .vovcoks, or if lie tailed to do so I 

 nnf ht ?ell the valise jiud its ccutents. 

 Ihe bag was net worth 50 cents, but as 

 be was well dressed I concluded that a 

 roomy vaiise stuffed almcst to bursting 

 v.'ith the wardrobe of such a swell would 

 much more than pay the $14 he owed 

 rue. I allowed him to take away the 

 rest of hi:; stuii' v» ithcut any hesitation. 



"Well, the two weeks passed, and I 

 did iic't liave any message from the 

 swell, but the valice remained undis- 

 turbed. A week later my housekeeper 

 came to me and said that two of my 

 best pillows were missing. They were 

 big ones, v>'orth about $4 apiece, and I 

 did not like the notion of losing them, 

 you may be sure. I felt sore, and iu an 

 aimless sort of way began looking 

 around behind the office counter, not 

 because 1 had any notion of finding them 

 there, but just because I had nowhere 

 else to look without leaving the desk to 

 take care cf itself. Suddenly my eye 

 rested on thr.t big valise that o'ft'ed m(> 

 $14, and then a kind of sick feeling 

 came over me. I opened it iu a hurry — 

 it contained nothing but my two big 

 pillow.s. " — New Orleans Times-Demo- 

 crat. 



I7ot an Anthem. 



Mr. W. S. G^ilbert told a good story 

 against !Sir Arthur Sullivan and himself 

 at the Savi^i,^e club. While "The Mi- 

 kado" was lu process of incubation tlu' 

 collaborators decided that it would be 

 an excellent thing to herald the entry of 

 the Japanese monarch by a suitable Jap- 

 anese tune s(>t to real Japanese words, 

 and they appealed to a gentleman learn- 

 ed iu matters concerning the far east to 

 help them in their difficulty. The result 

 ■was the chcrus in the second act. "Mivii 



sama, ini7.->. s:.rja, " the strains cf whicii 

 are also heard with such singular effect 

 in the cvci'ture. Until quile recently 

 Mr. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sallivt.u 

 were under the imprci^oion that this air 

 bclr::-cd to something in the uaticual 

 antl:em; but it now esems that they 

 have been Ludly sold. A friend cf Mr. 

 Gilbert, who savN? "The Mikado" the 

 other day fcr the fir-^t time, has written 

 a letter complimenting Ihe author aid 

 composer uiDon the general scheme of 

 their local color, but espre.sRing astoi - 

 i.vhii.C2ifc at the intrcducticn cf the 

 "Miya sama" chorus, the tune of which 

 he declares to be that of a song sur.g 

 only iu the ic^vest tec:hc'^.';cs cf Yckc*- 

 hama and calculated to make the loid 

 chumberlains hair stand on end. — Pul - 

 lie Opinioji. 



■Valuable Pennies. 



A striking insta-uceof the desirability 

 of taking care of pennies was aeen i.i 

 the sale at Sotheby's of the second 

 portion of the Montagu collection cf 

 English coins, whicli was particular] f 

 rich iu An::io-Saxon and other old pen- 

 nies, chiefly iu silver. The following 

 are Kome ot the prices obtained : Canute 

 penny of Louaou mint, £13 10s. ; Harcli- 

 canute penny of Aylesbury, £11 5s. ; 

 Harold II Chelsea penny (unique), the 

 only coin known from this mint, from 

 the Brice collection, £13 lo.s. ; Harold 

 Bristol penny, £10 iOs. ; William the" 

 Conqueror Stamford penny (unique), 

 £13 15s. ; William Rufus Leicester pen- 

 ny, £10; Henry I Canterbury penny, £11 

 15s. ; St. Edmundsbury penny (unpub- 

 lished), £14 15s. ; Carlisle penny 

 (unique), £10 10s. ; vfallingford peniiy, 

 £11 16s., and Wareham penny (rart), 

 £13 15s. The day's sale realized about 

 £600.— London Telegraph. 



What Produces Perfaaae. 



According to M. Eugene Mesnard, it 

 is not oxygen but light which is the 

 main cause cf the transformation and 

 destruction cf the odorous principle:., 

 although in many cases the two agents 

 act in concert. In producing the perfume 

 of plants light acts both as a chemical 

 and mechanical power. The intensity of 

 the perfume of flowers depends upon the 

 balance estiiblished'at every hour of ti;e 

 day between the pressure of water in 

 their cellules, which tends to drive tl e 



