1897. 



THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



63 



Entirely Different. 



"la not my performauce different 

 from that of anj^ other actor?" ai3kcd 

 the inflated Thespian at the stage door 

 of the Detroit Opera House. 



"It is indeed. " 



"Is not my conception entirely origi- 

 nal and ditrerenc from all other.s?" 



"No doubt about it." 



"Is not the reading of the lines dif- 

 ferent from the reading of alleged ac- 

 tors?" 



"Unquestionably. " 



"Are not my stage postures different 

 from those of many who masquerade as 

 actors?" 



"Of course. " 



"And my make up — it is differe'* 

 from the inartistic make up of most 

 The.«pians?" 



"Very different." 



"I have been told I resemble Edwin 

 Booth"— 



"Yes." 



"You have noticed? In what way do 

 I resemble him, sir?" 



"You are tso different. " — Detroit Free 

 Press. 



Italians In This Country. 



There are about 1,000,000 Italians in 

 the United States. One-third of th' n 

 are settled in the principal cities. Half 

 of these are laborers. Fifty per cent are 

 illiterate. They are hard and steady 

 workers, very saving and anxious to im- 

 prove themselves. When they have n 

 chance to work at their own trade, they 

 will accept any other kind of work and 

 any wages. The Italians hate begging. 

 Has any reader of this ever been step- 

 ped by an Lalian asking for a "nickel?" 

 In the records of charitable institutions 

 are very few Italian names. — Newark 

 (N. J.) Luce Evangelica." 



Three Crowns. 



During the middle ages the elective 

 emperors of Germany, at their corona- 

 tion, wore three crowns — the silver 

 crown as king of Germany, the iron 

 crown of Lombardy as king of Italy 

 and the imperial crown as kaiser of the 

 Holy Roman empire. The first was re- 

 ceived at Aix-la-Ohapelle, the second «t 

 Honza and the third at Rome, but Karl 

 V was the last kaiser-king who received 

 the imperial crown at the pope's hands. 



Source of Her Confidence. 



Uncle George — I really can't under- 

 stand you, Hat tie. All the married wo- 

 men you know you say have made bad 

 matches, and yet you are quite ready to 

 try matrimony yourself. 



Hattie — Don't you know, Uncle 

 George, that there's an excellent chance 

 of getting a prize in a lottery where so 

 many of the blanks have been drawn? — 

 Boston Transcript. 



A Story of Crisp. 



Here is a little story of the late 

 Charles Frederick Crisp: In one of the 

 counties of his district there was a lit- 

 tle weekly newspaper to which he faith- 

 fully subscribed. When he would come 

 home from Washington, he always 

 sought the editor and demanded to 

 know if his subscription had not ex- 

 pired. On one of these occasions, meet- 

 ing with the editor, he banded him a 

 |5 bill, saying: 



"I have missed three issues of my 

 paper, and I am sure I must be in ar- 

 rears. Take that and call it square." 



"But," said the editor, "the paper is 

 only $1 a year, and your subscription 

 won't be out until January." 



"That's all right," replied Crisp, 

 "but you keep the money. " And then 

 in a whisper, "I never saw an editor 

 yet that didn't need it. " — Atlanta Con- 

 stitution. 



The Four Lieaf Clover. 



The four leaf clover has been consid- 

 ered both in England, Ireland and 

 America as a lucky "find, " the acci- 

 dental lighting upon one being regard- 

 ed as foretelling some good fortune to 

 the finder. In some parts of Ireland the 

 presentation of a four leaf clover by a 

 young man to a young woman is con- 

 .sidered equivalent to "popping the ques- 

 tion." 



Rome's Triumphal Crown. 



The triumphal crown of Rome was 

 made of laurel leaves and was given to 

 the general who achieved a great vic- 

 tory over an enemy. He entered the 

 city, not by a gate, but over a portion 

 of the wall which was thrown down to 

 afford a passage. At his funeral his 

 laurel crowm was placed in his bier and 

 buried with the body. 



