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EDITOR, 



Yol.XXTIII. 



Noy, 19, 1891, No, 21, 



Editorial Buzziiigs. 



Tlie World is a crowded 'bus ; 

 A few good men, perhaps, 

 May g-et a seat, the rest of us 

 Must hold on by the straps. 



Xlie IVational Flo^wer was 



voted for at the Flower Show In Chicago 

 last week. When the box was opened it 

 was found that out of the 899 votes 

 cast, 457 was for the bee's favorite — 

 the golden-rod — and the rest were scat- 

 tering. The golden-rod was an over- 

 whelming favorite. "It grows every- 

 where," said one lady when she voted, 

 " and is the typical American flower. It 

 makes itself at home anywhere, in the 

 gardens of the rich and poor alike, and 

 its growth is so rapid, and it attains 

 magnificence so soon that it is more 

 emblematic of America than any other 

 flower in the world." The voting con- 

 tinues through this week. 



Anotlier patent has just been 

 issued on a bee-hive. It is dated Nov. 

 10, 1891, and was given to Reuben H. 

 Ewing, of Iowa. It is the old story— a 

 moth-proof hive — worthless and useless, 

 with not a new feature in it. Here is 

 the claim of the so-called invention : 



The bee-hive A, having a horizontal 

 bottom B, with the central hole h, just 

 large enough to allow the bees to pass 

 through it, and an upwardly-convex 

 bottom C, whose oppositely-inclined sides 

 meet in a vertex c, directly under the 

 said hole, and just far enough there- 

 from to permit the bees to reach the 

 hole, the said hive being provided with 

 opposite entrances c' c' for the bees and 

 moths between said bottoms, as shown 

 and described. 



The inventor does not even know the 

 sex of worker bees, as will be seen by 

 the following from the specifications, 

 where it is called he every time. 



The tendency of the bee is to move 

 upwardly, and as soon as he reaches the 

 vertex c he will make for the entrance 

 h, while the moth will travel up one* side 

 of the bottom C, and down the other, 

 thereby failing to get into the honey or 

 bee chambers at all, not being able to 

 reach the hole b, even if inclined to do so. 



What a pity it is to fool away good 

 money for such a worthless patent ! 



What stupidity it is to maintain a lot 

 of useless "examiners" to approve of 

 inventions the practical workings of 

 which they know nothing about ! 



What dishonesty it is to grant patents, 

 over and over again, to different persons 

 on precisely the same thing ! 



What robbery it is to take the money 

 of the credulous inventor and render no 

 equivalent for it ! 



In this case the patentee has sold one- 

 half of the "invention" in advance, to 

 secure the money to get a patent, which, 

 for practical purposes, is not worth the 

 paper it is printed upon! Bah ! 



To Granulate Honey a cor- 

 respondent advises to churn it, as you 

 do cream to make butter. This will 

 produce a fine grain in a few minutes. 



