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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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to slap him. ippeatedJy in the face. JS^ew- 

 fouiidlandlike, he let the terrier suarl 

 until he tried to bite, when at last he 

 lost his temper. He tcok the man bj 

 the collar and the trousers near the 

 knee. ' Then, holding him up, to the 

 astonishment of the gallery, he knocked 

 his assailant's knees into his teeth till 

 he was nea-Jy senseless. The French- 

 man was taken to a hospital, while 

 Saudow was walked off to a cell. But 

 there were so many witnesses to ihe 

 provocation that Sandow got off. The 

 Frenchman himself was so astonished 

 that when he recovered he sought San- 

 dow's friendship and presented to him 

 a magnificent watch, which he still 

 possesses. 



The Stone Forest of. l^'Iorissant. 



The silicified trees of the Florissant 

 basin are a marked curiosity of the 

 United States. They are less known 

 than the "stone forest" of Arizona or 

 than the similar mausoleum of the Yel- 

 lowstone region, but it is only because 

 they have not yet been brought to the 

 attention of the tourist. The trees are 

 at the present time represented only by 

 their stumps. In wandering over the 

 green meadow the eye here and there 

 rests upon a seemingly "bald" spot. 

 Over it are scattered white and yellow 

 chips, and, for anything that the eye 

 can itself distinguish, these could easily 

 be the chips left in the path of work of 

 a recently passing woodsman. The de- 

 ception is absolute, and it belongs to 

 the stump as well. The knots and gnarlg 

 and annular rings are perfectly preserv- 

 ed. The bark stands in prominent relief 

 both by ruggedness and color, and all 

 this not in wood, but in the monumental 

 substance of stone. The precise manner 

 in which the substitution of silica for 

 ■wood was effected cannot now be learn- 

 ed, but in a general way we know it to 

 have been broiight about as the result 

 of a slow infiltration into the tree trunks 

 of heated waters containing silica in so- 

 lution. 



The remains are fairly numerous, but 

 what strikes one with special astonish- 

 ment is the giant size which some of 

 them attain. Diameters of six, seven 

 and eight feet are by no means uncom- 

 xuon, and we measured three specimens 

 which spanned ten feet or more. In 

 most instances the stumps hardly rise 

 above the surface, coming up flush with 



it; therefore without excavation it ia 

 impossible to say at what height above 

 the roots the measurements were taken. 

 — Popular Science Monthly. 



My Sin. 



Stand in the public thoroughfares 

 gazing at anything real or imaginary, 

 and the dozens who gather round you 

 will multiply soon into hundreds, and, 

 if you stick to it, perhaps thousands. A 

 crowd as big as the street could hold 

 encircled a sign painter the other day. 

 Tliey rallied in curious excitement and 

 dispersed in disappointed disgust. 



"My Sin," in huge, flaming letters, 

 was what the painter had already 

 printed. If ever a crowd was bent on 

 anything, it was on the discovery of 

 what that sin was. They asked each 

 other what it might be and hazarded 

 guesses, while the man laid by his red 

 paint pot and brought forth green in- 

 stead. 



What would the next word be? 



The crowd grew so excited that they 

 called to the man, "What is it?" "Tell 

 us," "Goon," "Hurry," "Paint quick 

 if you won't talk," until it seemed he 

 might grow too bothered to print any- 

 thing. But he did. 



He printed out in small green letters, 

 added to the gigantic "Sin" the sylla- 

 ble "gle, " and when the sign was com- 

 plete it read, "My single aim is to sell 

 at nominal profit. " — Pearson's Weekly. 



Sorry Fate of Japanese Girls. 



When a Japanese woman marries, hei: 

 teeth are bku kened by a process so 

 tedious and painful that some girls for 

 this reason r( fuse to be married. 



Money Made in a Minute. . 



I have not made less thon sixteen dollars any 

 day while selling: Centrifugal Ice Cream Freezers. 

 Anyone should make from five to eight dollars a 

 day selling cream, and from seven to ten dollars 

 selling Freezers, as it is such a wonder, there is al- 

 ways a crowd wanting cream. Yon can freeze cream 

 elegantly in one minute and that astonishes people 

 so they all want to taste it and then many of them 

 buy freezers as the cream is smooth and perfectly 

 frozen. Every freezer is guaranteed to freeze 

 cream perfectly in one minute. Anyone can sell 

 ice cream and the freezer sells itself. My sister 

 niiikes from ten to fifteen dollars a day. J. F. (j'asey 

 k Co., 114:3 St. Charles St., St. Louis. Mo., will mail 

 you full particulars free, so you can go to work and 

 make lots of money anywhere as with one freezer 

 you can make a hundred gallons of cream a day, or 

 if you wish they will hire you on a salary. 



