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VOL. XXXI. CHICAGO, ILL, MAY 4, 1893. 



NO. 18. 



Mr. Fraiilcliu '%Vilcox, of Mauston, 

 Wis., is in Chicago looking after the honey 

 and wax exhibit of his State at the World's 

 Fair. He gave the Bee Journal office a 

 pleasant call last week. The Wisconsin 

 exhibit will be about two-thirds comb 

 honey, and the balance extracted. 



Prof. C Hi. Strickland, who has 



been conducting the Bee-Experiment Sta- 

 tion at Peabody, Kans., has been obliged to 

 give it up on account of ill-health. He will 

 return to his former home at Maryville, 

 Mo. We regret this very much, for Mr. 

 Strickland was doing a good work, and we 

 hope he may soon be able to again under- 

 take it. 



Mr. «. K. HMl»l>ara, of Ft. Wayne, 

 Ind., called at the Bee Journal office last 

 Thursday. He came to Chicago to look 

 after his exhibit of bee-keepers' supplies at 

 the World's Fair. Mr. H. is a pushing 

 young man, and has, by dint of hard, hon- 

 est work and good judgment, built up a 

 large trade. He went to California last 

 year hoping to find relief for Mrs. H. whose 

 health is very poor, but little benefit re- 

 sulted. We hope that in some way she 

 may soon be enabled to regain her former 

 strength. 



jfliss liVilsott's Surprise I»arty. 



— As requested on page 362, we have in- 

 directly learned how the surprise biographi- 

 cal sketch and picture affected Miss Emma 

 Wilson. Dr. Miller tells us about it in the 

 following : 



Friend York : — I tried to get Miss Wilson 

 to write about her surprise, but she seems 

 non-communicative on that point. When I 

 first asked her what were her impressions 

 on seeing herself in black ink in the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal, she replied, " I felt very 

 queer here " — and her hand made a rotary 

 motion over the region where the center of 

 circulation is supposed to be located. She 

 looked as if she had a notion to faint ! 



C. C. Miller. 



Whew ! we didn't contemplate any such 

 effect ! I'ts a grand thing that Miss W. was 

 near a good doctor, or we might have 

 found ourselves in a nice box— we didn't 

 mean in our coffin, exactly, though we have 

 seen some '' nice boxes " in that line. With- 

 out further (jravelj joking, we hope, now 

 that Miss Wilson has recovered, she will 

 forgive us all around — seeing we won't 

 have a chance to do the same thing again 

 very soon. 



Xlie Coiiib-I^eveler, invented by 

 Mr. B. Taylor, of ForestvUle, Minn., shown 

 on page 567 of this number of the Bee 

 Journal, promises to be a good thing. He 

 has prepared machinery for making them, 

 and the price of metal part will be 60 cents 

 each, by mail, postpaid ; with a neat box 

 for the lamp, by express, $1.00; with box 

 knock-down, by mail, $1.10. After a sea- 

 son's use, if the machine does not prove all 

 that is claimed for it, the money will be 

 cheerfully returned by Mr. Taylor, for he 

 believes each super of comb will be im- 

 proved enough to pay for the leveler. 



