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THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



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chine winds tlie threads on bobbins as 

 soon as it issues from the spider. — New 

 York yuu. 



Luck. 



"Do you think there is any luck in a 

 four leaf clover?" asked the young 

 woman. 



"Well," replied Mr. Barker thought- 

 fully, "I can't trace the connection be- 

 tween any superstition and actual oc- 

 currences, but I knew a girl who was 

 very lucky soon after she found a four 

 leaf clover." 



"Do tell me about it." 



"There isn't much to tell. While she 

 was huutii-g the four leaf clover she 

 got her feet wet and caught a cold, and 

 everybody said she was lucky that she 

 didn't die." — Washington Star. 



Stones of Prinsep. 



Mr. Valentine Prinsep, the well 

 known English artist, is a very jolly 

 Briton indeed, and is fond of telling 

 amusing stories about himself and hia 

 profession. Even his name proves a 

 source of mirth, and he likes to relate 

 the blunders its oddity has occasioned. 

 Once, when going to dine at a fashion- 

 able mansion, he was accosted by the 

 butler: 



"What name, sir?" ^ 



"Prinsep." 



Great was the big artist's amusement 

 when he was then announced loudly 

 and pompously as Prince Heppl 



Mr. Prinsep's favorite anecdote is one 

 often told, but always good, of which 

 he claims to be the original narrator. 

 Moreover, it is a true one. An old coun- 

 try coviple, so he relates, had strayed 

 into the Manchester Art gallery, cata- 

 logue in hand, and were wandering 

 from room to room looking at the pic- 

 tures, "which were numbered anew, one, 

 two, three and so on in each division, 

 instead of continuously throughout the 

 whole exhibition. The two old people 

 stopped in awe-.,and admiration before 

 Madox Brown's heroic picture, the 

 "Decth of.'King Lear. " 



"Wha's this un. Jinny?" asked the 

 old man. 



"A'll see, Jarge, A'll see, ef ye'll 

 give me a minute." 



The old lady hastily turned to the 

 catalogue division of another room, and 

 read off the number corresponding to 



that (T tiie picture btioie (liem. it 

 chanced to be that of L.:nd.secr's famous 

 picture of a coJlie fallen ov^r a cliflf, 

 and just reached by the anxious shep- 

 herd, ^^l,o calls the result of his exaiti- 

 nj.tion ot the poor beast's injuries to 

 his comriides on the rocks above, bhe 

 read otf the title ( f the picture to her 

 husbi;nd: 



'"ihere's Life In the Old Dog Yet." 

 Looking coiupi.Si-ioi'ately on the pic- 

 tured form tf the ugod and t( r-:l:^n 

 knig, Jurge failed to perceive anything 

 wrong in the name. 



"to there is, \],-d\, so there is!" he ex- 

 claimed, in a burst of pity; a('.uii:g, 

 with dropped voice and a shake cf the 

 head at Lc;ir, "but not much, not 

 much!" — Youth's Comoanion. 



The Plow. 



Plcwrcg was um;oubtedly first done 

 with a forked s'itk. the long arm 1 "i-;^ 

 harnessed, in some primitive way, to an 

 ox or team of oxen, and the .«liort arm 

 pointed for the purpose cf penetrating 

 the pround. The plow is one of the old- 

 est of apricultural implements, and it 

 is a curious fact that in oriental coun- 

 tries the same kind of plow is used now 

 as was described by the writers of 2,(^00 

 years ago. The plow represented on the 

 EgyptiiiU monuments of 3000 B. C. 

 may be seen in the valley of tlie Nile 

 today. Our patent office has over 10,000 

 models of pJows. In Egypt, iSyria and 

 India there is but one, and that the one 

 which has b'^en in use for thousands of 

 years. The plow (U.aerjbed by Virral, 

 81 B. C, is in use in many eouiitry dis- 

 tricts of Italy todiiy. In 1(518 patents 

 were taken out by David Ramsay and 

 Thomas Wildgoose for "engines to plc'V 

 grounds, wlicther inland rr upland." 

 In the Scriptures plowiiig with oiffcr- 

 ent kinos cf animals hitched together 

 was forbidoen on account of, the trueity 

 involved Ly the unequal draft imjjosed 

 upon animals of aitt'eient siz; s v. orking 

 in the same harness. In Ch.na the plow 

 is a sacred implement, ai.d models are 

 cgi;s:cr..ted iu the temples of the gods. 

 As eariy as 1849 steam plows were p.it- 

 euted in the United States. 



Sixty per cent of the buckwheat fields 

 v/ere in New York and Penr.ty.vauiu 

 when the last federal census v.as taken, 

 and they continue to hold the lead. 



