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some of our more scientific journals. At 

 the age of 18 he was associate editor of 

 seven different journals at very good 

 salaries, besides contributing regularly 

 to many other journals — from which it 

 will bo observed he was rather a pre- 

 cocious — not to speak of literary — genus 

 homo. 



As may be imagined, his apicultural 

 writings were largely in the way of 

 question marks, though at the time he 

 was duly installed as one of the " vet- 



JT. M. BARNUM. 



erans " who assisted in solving the pro- 

 found queries that were sent to the 

 American Bee Journal. It will be 

 noticed that Mr. Barnum is still " pound- 

 ing" at the propounded questions. 



He soon " out-grew" his position with 

 the Indiana Farmer, and became editor 

 and manager of the State organ of the 

 Indiana Farmers' Alliance — the Alliance 

 Advocate — an eight-page weekly, which 

 ran up a circulation of 2,700, and was 

 then sold to the publisher of the Dakota 

 Ruralist. 



From Indianapolis he returned to his 

 home in New York, and soon purchased 



the Belmont Dispatch — the leading po- 

 litical journal of Allegany county, pub- 

 lished at its county-seat. He was there 

 in a fair way to settle down, as he had a 

 good, paying business, and a congenial 

 occupation; but after a period of 18 

 months he sold his plant— to an ex- 

 county clerk— and joined his father and 

 invalid mother, who had just moved to 

 Denver, Colo! He is now a proud, if not 

 opulent, resident of that beautiful city, 

 and his 25th year finds him a satisfied 

 part-owner and editor of a most beaut- 

 iful and valuable literary monthly, the 

 Colorado Magazine .' 



Although being without bees most of 

 the time the past few years, he has not 

 for a moment lost Interest in the little 

 honey-gatherers — as the different bee 

 and agricultural journals will testify, 

 and he hardly thinks he will be in direct 

 harmony with his surroundings until he 

 is again the possessor of a few colonies 

 of bees. 



Mr. Barnum is a pretty fair mason — 

 that is, a "Free and Accepted one," be- 

 longing to the Royal Arch Chapter, and 

 to about every other secret order. 



While we have never met Mr. B., yet 

 we have formed a very good opinion of 

 him, and h^e that some day we may 

 become better acquainted than is pos- 

 sible through the medium of the pen or 

 pencil. No doubt he is the very young- 

 est among all those who reply to the 

 questions in our department of " Queries 

 and Replies," while Mr. E. France, we 

 believe, is the oldest. 



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