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THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



377 



Ana tiranite INerve. 



A good 81017 IS told by au English 

 tonrist who staid tor h week in apart- 

 ments in Aberdeen, the Granite City. 



"I had heard," he says, "of the 

 canny folk of Aberdeen, and my experi- 

 ence, short though it was, proved that 

 rumor had rightly estimated the char- 

 acter of the people. The streets are 

 granite, the houses are granite and the 

 inhabitants are granite, and when they 

 have a granite baby they give it a ball 

 of granite for fear it should break any 

 other toy. 



"I had a granite landlady, and one 

 day when I was going fishing her son 

 volunteered to accompany me. I pro- 

 vided the lunch, the rods and the lines; 

 he provided the worms — dug them up 

 in a neighbor's garden with a borrowed 

 spade. I caught 16 trout; he ate the 

 lunch and broke my best rod. When 

 we got home, 1 made a present of 14 of 

 the fish to my granite landlady and 

 asked her to cook the other two for my 

 tea. She did — and charged me three- 

 pence for the dripping in which they 

 were fried." — Edinburgh Scotsman. 



Snelishmen and Scotland. 



The Englishman is looked on in Scot- 

 land and regards himself as a foreigner. 

 Though ths literary language of both 

 countries is cue and the same, many of 

 the most common Scottish expressions 

 are quite unintelligible to him, while 

 the laws and institutions of the country 

 are entirely uuiamiliar. "How," in thi3 

 connection remarked the Edinburgh 

 Press, "how is it that, after living 

 1,000 years side by side, after three cen- 

 turies of union and in spite of the year- 

 ly visit to Scotland of tens of thousands 

 of English, there are still among them 

 people, even writers, who know less 

 about our country than about Pata- 

 gonia?" 



Found Repose Behind the Pulpit. 



Seth Payne, a new.«paper character 

 of Denver in other times, was a victim 

 of insomnia to a distressing degree. He 

 finally obtained permis.^iou of Tom 

 Uzzell to sletp in the Meihcuist churcli, 

 and durii:g ti;e summer of 1879, 

 wrapped in an ordinary blanket and 

 stowed away behind the pulpit of the 

 parish church, he found repose which 

 be declared was denied him elsewhere. 

 —Denver Times. 



He Played VV^hat He Saw. 



An itinerant musician who played 

 the trombone in a little German band 

 haled the leader of that organization to 

 a London court and demanded that a 

 week's wages which he claimed were 

 due him should be paid. The leader de- 

 clared that he had discharged the man 

 for incompetency and that he had been 

 paid in full. The plaintiff insisted that 

 he was a skilled performer, and in ex- 

 plaining the incident that had resulted 

 in his ejection from the band charged 

 that the discordant noises which he ad- 

 mitted he w^s guilty of making on one 

 occasion were the fault not of himself, 

 but of his employer. In elucidation of 

 this mystery the aggrieved musician 

 said that the leader, as usual, had dis- 

 tributed the different parts to the play- 

 ers and had been careless enough to pass 

 over the trombone part upside down. 

 Being nearsighted, the player did not 

 notice the mistake, but proceeded to 

 sound the notes as he read them from 

 the reversed .score. "I blay vot I see," 

 he declared in court, "and dere vas a 

 noise." The leader said the "noise" 

 was dreadful, as may well have been 

 the case, and that the plaintiff had re- 

 fused to stop playing when ordered to 

 do so. Ingenious as was the attempted 

 explanation, it did not convince the 

 judge, and a verdict for the defendant 

 was given. — Berlin Correspondence. 



£aton Hall. 



Among the many famous and beauti- 

 ful seats of the nobility of England is 

 Eaton Hall, but few seem to know of 

 the vast extent of this splendid home of 

 the Duke and Duchess of Westminster. 

 So numerous are the rooms that 60 

 suits are set apart for visitors alone, 

 but it is only on the occasion of a royal 

 visit that the true size of this beautiful 

 hall is sho^'n. When the di^e and 

 duchess are alone or have only a small 

 house party, they prefer to occupy a 

 house which is attached to the hall. 



The Keason. 



She — Woman's mind is cleaner than 

 that of n)au. 



He — Certainly. She changes it often- 

 er. — Indianapolis Journal. 



The oyster sleeps lu a folding bed.- 

 Jacksonvilie rimes Union. 



