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EDITOR. 



VoLIXVIII, Sept 3, 1891. No. 10, 



Editorial Buzzings. 



"Vermont's Appropriation for the 

 World's Fair has been increased to 

 $15,000. 



It is Reported that the Prince of 

 Wales, Emperor William of Germany, 

 and the Shah of Persia all seriously con- 

 template visiting the World's Fair in 

 1893. The Sultan of Zanzibar has 

 decided to make an extensive exhibit, 

 and a request for space has been cabled, 



An Interesting: Collection 



from Asiatic-Russian provinces is being 

 exhibited on the Champs Elysee, in Paris, 

 and it is said will be brought to Chicago, 

 in 1893. The exhibition is in charge of 

 Gen. Annenkoff, son of the Princess Dol- 

 gorouki (morganatic wife of Alexander 

 II.), who is the head of the great trans- 

 Caucasus railway into Turkestan and 

 Afghanistan. The collection comprises 



natural products of Central Asia, and 

 arms, clothing, jewels, and household 

 articles of the various provinces, as well 

 as a panorama of a battle In Turkestan, 

 with scenic illustrations of the snow- 

 capped mountains. 



Feeding- Back the honey, to have 

 sections completed, has been often tried 

 and proved to be too expensive. Mr. G. 

 W. Demaree is now experimenting with 

 it. He writes as follows : 



When I get through "feeding back" 

 to have sections finished, and to test just 

 how much honey it takes to finish a 

 pound of comb-honey, I will send to the 

 Bee JouKiSrAL,, an article detailing my 

 experiments. 



Astlima can be cured by the liberal 

 use of honey, as will be seen from the 

 following article, which is copied from 

 the London Encyclopedia : 



Dr. Munroe, in his ^'Medical and 

 Pharmaceutical Chemistry," says : "The 

 late Dr. John Hume, of the commission- 

 ers of the sick and hurt of the royal 

 navy, was for many years violently 

 affected with asthma. Having taken 

 many medicines without receiving ben- 

 efit, he at last resolved to try the effect 

 of honey, having had a great opinion of 

 its virtue as a pectoral. 



" For two or three years he ate some 

 ounces of it daily and got entirely free 

 from his asthma, and also of a gravel 

 complaint with which he had long been 

 afflicted. About two years after he had 

 recovered his health, when he was sitting 

 one day in the office of the sick and hurt, 

 a person laboring under great difficulty 

 of breathing, who looked as if he could 

 not live many days, came to him and 

 asked him by what means he had been 

 cured of his asthma. Dr. Hume told him 

 all the particulars of his own case and 

 mentioned to him the means by which he 

 had found relief. For two years after, 

 he heard nothing of this person, who was 

 a stranger to him and had seetued so 

 bad that he did not imagine that he could 

 have lived many days, and therefore had 

 not even asked him who he was ; but at 

 the end of that period a man, seemingly 

 in good health and well dressed, came to 

 the sick and hurt office and returned his 

 thanks for his cure, which he assured 

 him had been brought about by the free 

 use of honey." 



