1897. 



THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



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a judge for the competitors, coolly con- 

 frouted a mau sitting in the andieuce, 

 who was uoted for his ugliuess, aud 

 said: 



"Tha's won th' prize, owd mon. " 

 "Me?" said the astonished individ- 

 ual. "Wha, aw woru't tryin for't. " 



"Tha'd iica uetd to try. Tha's won 

 it wi'out. " 



liove's Trials. 



Bride — There! I knew how it would 

 be. We have not been married a month 

 and already you have ceased to care for 

 tne. 



Young Husband — Why, my love, 

 what can you be thinking of? You are 

 dearer to me than ever. 



''It isn't so. I know it isn't. You 

 took meals at our house lots of times be- 

 fore we were married, and you scarcely 

 touched anything. Ma said she knew 

 you were truly in love because you had 

 no appetite. " 



"Of course, dear, but" — 



"And now you are actually complain- 

 ing just because I forgot to get anything 

 for breakfast." — Pearson's Weeklv. 



The Practice That Makes Perfect. 



A writer in the St. Louis Globe-Dem- 

 ocrat says that few persons have an ade- 

 quate idea of the amount of labor be- 

 stowed by virtuosi in practicing upon 

 their chosen instruments before appear- 

 ing as public performers. When Liszt 

 was learning piano playing, he prac- 

 ticed ten hours a day for over 12 years. 

 Ole Bull spent over 20 years in almost 

 constant practice on the violin. With 

 Paganini the violin was the study of a 

 lifetime. For over 25 years he never al- 

 lowed a day to pass without eight or ten 

 hours spent in playing exercises to im- 

 prove his fingering and facility of exe- 

 cution. Rubinstein devoted over 15 

 years to studying the piano. Paderew- 

 ski has devoted a lifetime to his instru- 

 ment. 



Theira' First Snccesseg. 



Thiers' great achievement at Aiswao 

 in winning a prize offered by the acad- 

 emy for an essay on Vauvenargues. The 

 way in which this prize was secured 

 was characteristic of Thiers. He wrote 

 one essay which would have been suc- 

 cessful but for the fact that it was 

 known to be his. The essays were sent 

 anonymously, but Thiers had been un- 



aoje to retrain irom reading his to a lit- 

 erary society. The royalists on the com- 

 mittee, knowing its authorship, were 

 r.uwilling to grant it the prize and post- 

 poned the decision. Thiers at once wrote 

 another in a different style, which Mig- 

 iiet copied and sent in anouymousl5\ 

 This essay won the prize, and the whole 

 town laughed at the clever scb.eme. The 

 money which he received enabled him 

 to go to Paris. 



He had hoped to practice law, but 

 found he had not money enough to be 

 admitted to the Paris bar. He tried un- 

 successfully writing, fan painting and 

 the duties of a private secretary, but 

 earned barely enough to keep from 

 starving in his garret. Finally he got a 

 chance to write for The Gonstitutionnel. 

 The editor, to when] he had an intro- 

 duction, had thought to get rid of him 

 by asking him to write a review of the 

 salon for that year. He supposed that 

 Thiers must fail in such a task. The 

 artistic taste which had been developed 

 at Aix made this review a literary 

 event. While doing justice to David's 

 great service to French art in the past 

 Thiers urged emancipation from the 

 fetters with 'which David had bound 

 the French school and in contrast called 

 attention to Delacroix, then an unknown 

 painter. This single article did much 

 for French art and also secured the au- 

 thor a position as a journalist. — Chau- 

 tauauan. 



Daily Duties. 



The best part of one's life is the per- 

 formance of one's daily duties. All 

 higher motives, ideas, conceptions and 

 sentiments in a man's life are of little 

 value if they do not strengthen him for 

 the better discharge of the duties which 

 devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs 

 of life. — New York Ledger. 



Remedy For Tartar. 



The tartar on human teeth is filled 

 with animalcules, which are destroyed 

 by vinegar. Vinegar itself contains eel- 

 like insr-cts. 



Didn't Scare Him a Bit. 



Old Millyuns — Young man, my 

 daughter tells me that you kissed her 

 last night. 



Percival Tootles — Well, if she wants 

 to go around bragging about it, that's 

 her privilege. — Cleveland Leader. 



