1897. 



THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



271 



We have just heard of the awful 

 calamity that has fallen on the house- 

 hold of our brother Editor, W. Z, 

 Hutchinson. As has been generally 

 known Mrs. Hutchinson has, for some 

 time been in ill health, both mentally 

 and physically, and on August 27th 

 she purchased a revolver and a quan- 

 tity of choloroform and proceeded to 

 choloroforra the youngest daughter, 

 5 years of age, and then shot the 

 other daughter, 15 years of age. The 

 younger girl died but the other is re- 

 covering according to the last report 

 we had. Our heartfelt sympathy, 

 and that of every other bee keeper 

 in the land, is extended to our old 

 friend, W. Z., in these dark hours. 

 He certainly has had more than his 

 share of affliction. 



Having lost five young queens, 

 daughters of a paralytic mother, by 

 the malady. Dr. Gallup has become 

 convinced that paralysis is a disease 

 which lurks iu the varies of the 

 queen, thus imparting it to her pro- 

 geny. A sure remedy would then be 

 to replace the diseased queen with a 

 healthy one. 



Some one has figured out that a bee 

 must visit fully 60,000 clover blossoms 

 to collect a pound of honey- 



BUT LITTLE DANGKR FROM LIGHTNING. 



Writing on "'The Needless Fear of Lit;lit- 

 ning," Edward VV. Bok, in the September 

 Ladies" Home Journal t-ays that "it will 

 doubtless surprise the timid to know that 

 only two hundred deaths a year occur on «n 

 averag" throughout this entire country from 

 lightning, or one person in every ihree 

 hundred aud fifty thousand people. Now, 

 in comparison, fifteen lime< as may people 

 are killed each year by falling out of win- 



dows; over twice as many from being bitten 

 by rattlesnakes, while twenty-five per cent, 

 more are killed with "unloaded"' pistols. 

 More people are drowned around New York 

 City alone every year than there are deaths 

 from lightning all over the country. In 

 fact, tuore people, by fifty per cent., are 

 killed by being kicked by horses in New 

 York City than die from lightning through- 

 out the whole United States, Thecasuahlea 

 of the South show that the dangers of being 

 lynched and of being killed by lightning 

 are about the same. The trolley cars of 

 our cities kill a far greater number of peo- 

 ple than do the lightning storms. Now, 

 these are facts, tliey are strictly accurate 

 and carefully computed." 



"The Meaning of Greater New York" is 

 the title of an article in Demorest's Maga- 

 zine for September, which is its own ex- 

 planation. It is intended to answer all 

 those questions about the consolidation of 

 New York and Brooklyn which people with 

 intelligent curiosity are always asking their 

 friends and which tiieir fi-ieijils are rarely 

 able to answer. 



Civilization In France, A. I>. 1617. 



Marshal d'AL'cre was assassinated in 

 the streets of Vitry April 24, l(;i7. The 

 people of Frauce have always been look- 

 ed upon as fairly well civilized at that 

 time Yet this is what these civilized 

 Frei]chmeu did. They dug up the corpse 

 of D'Ancre, dragged it through the 

 streets to the Pout Neuf, where they 

 hung it up by the feet. Then it was 

 dragged through the streets agaiu to the 

 Place de Greve. D'Aiicre, or what was 

 left of hinj,was dismembered and chop- 

 ped to pieces, the crowds fighting for 

 morsels of the "excomniuuicated Jew," 

 as they called him. Kis entrails were 

 thrown into the river, his ears were sold 

 to the best burger, aud what was left was 

 burned in front of the statue of Heuri 

 IV. Mcst hcrrihle cf all, his heart was 

 torn out, cccked aud eaten by these hu- 

 man vvclves. The next day the dead 

 marshal's ashes were offered for sale on 

 the streets, while his wife Vv"as accused 

 of sorcery, ('nicgtd to the bastile riid 

 her head harked c.lf. — Pittsburg Dis- 

 oatch. 



