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THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



November 



sent to me, asiiing me to telegraph it 

 back to you, siguiug 'M. D. ' after my 

 name?" 



"Yes, and then I told Polly that my 

 doctor had telegraphed to me that the 

 air of that place was too bracing for 

 me and that I must come back, and 1 

 showed her yom* dispatch to prove it. 

 Then I packed my outing suit and 

 came. ' ' 



"It appears to me, " said Riggs, "that 

 yotu* cousin Polly is a good deal more 

 devoted to you than you are to her. ' ' 



"No," siiid Biggs hesitatingly. "I 

 don't think so. If I had been one of 20 

 men, and she the only girl in the place, 

 it is likely that the rest of the condi- 

 tions woiild have been reversed too. ' ' — 

 New York Tribune. 



Fog: and Gaslight. 



According to the statement of Pro- 

 fessor Lewes, a London fog deprives coal 

 gas of 11. 1 per cent of its illuminating 

 power, but this is not so astonishing as 

 is the fact that, under similar circum- 

 stances, tbe searcljing light of an in- 

 candescent burner loses as much as 20.8 

 of its eflHcacy. The reason given by Pro- 

 fessor Lewes for this phenomenon is 

 that the spectrum of both the incandes- 

 cent and the electric light approaches 

 very nearly that of the solar spectrum, 

 being \eiy rich in the violet and ultra- 

 violet rays. It is precisely these rays 

 which cannot make their way through 

 a Loudon fog. To this is attributed the 

 fact that the sun looks red on a foggy 

 day. The violet rays are absorbed by 

 the solid particles floating in the aque- 

 ous vapor cf the atmosphere, and ouly 

 the red pcrlious of the spectrum get 

 through. The iuteresting additional 

 Itatement is made in this connection 

 that the old argaud burner is much 

 more successful in resisting a London 

 fog than any of its later rivals. 



English Dinner Orators. 



Twenty years ago the best dinner ta- 

 ble talkers in Eugiaud were thought to 

 be Lord Chief Justice Cockburu, 

 Queen's Counselor Judah P. Benjamin, 

 Mr. Gladstone, Cardinal Manning, Lord 

 Rosebery and Dean dianley. Twenty 

 years before that Macaulay and Carlyle 

 headed the list. In Dickens' tirLe he 

 ranked as the best after dinner speaker, 

 and Sala enjoyed that distinction for a 



few years beiore his death j...tie is 

 now rather a dearth of caikeis and 

 speakers of the first luster in tiiat coun- 

 try. 



An Iron Mountain. 



In the city cf Duiargo, Mexico, is 

 an iron mountain 640 feet high, and 

 the iron is from (JU to 70 per cei:t pure. 

 The metallic mass spreads in all cirec- 

 ticns for a radius of three orfcur miles. 

 The entire deposit is sufiBcienr to sup- 

 ply all the iron required in the world 

 for 1,000 years. 



Couldn't Fool Stewart. 



The late A. T. Stewart beloueed to 

 the Century club, although he rarelj' 

 visited its rooms. The club cuce bought 

 a carpet of his people, and when it had 

 been down for several mouths Stewart 

 happened to come in. He seemed to be 

 greatly interested in the carpet, study- 

 ing it attentively. "Where did you buy 

 that?" he demanded cf one of the house 

 committee. "At your place, I believe." 

 "Impossible!" rejoined the millionaire. 

 "We never had the pattern in stock. 

 We have had a pattern exactly siuiilur, 

 except that those little violet flowers 

 were white. " The comniitteeir.an tci k 

 the trouble to hunt through his vouch- 

 ers and produced a receipted bill of A. 

 T. Stewart & Co. Mr. Stewart shock 

 his head. "There. is some mistake," bo 

 said. "The little flowers on cur carpet 

 were white. " It was foui:d en investi- 

 gation that the little flowers hiid been 

 white — so offensively white and spotiy 

 to the eyes of scmecf the fcsthelic mem- 

 bers cf the club that Louis Li:ug had 

 gene over them with a .stiff Liuth dip- 

 ped in viol et ink — New Yor k Letter 



The latest Paris cevice fcr tilling out 

 slender lipr.Tts consists ci lullJes Lbout 

 three incLc-^wide, made cf r;bbcu, uius- 

 lin or lace to match tJA-^own, .tewed 

 ii.side the be dy across tl.e bust. They 

 give a soft iullness and are much ii^ore 

 htalthy thiui cotton or the heavy pads 

 foimeiJy used 



Missouri produced in i:^'JtJ :iCO.UO!\000 

 bushels cf corn, ];J,OUO.t.OO Li.fcht is of 

 wheat, 22, OOU.OOO bushels of cats, 

 3,y(J0,U0() !ci)s cf hay, 1-1,000,000 

 pounds ot (C'tcu, 7,000, LLU pcucc.s cf 

 tobacco. ".00 000 bu.-bel.-. cf flussee ♦ 

 and 6,000,000 Dusbels of poiaiv^bd. 



