HONEY POT- POURRI. 
Hum-sweet-hum—that of the honey-bee. 
To purify beeswax, melt and cool slowly over a body of water. 
It is at a “quilting-bee’’ where you hear the “stinging ”’ remarks. 
Put honey in your tea to sweeten it, andif you are troubled with 
gravel, it will cure it. 
The first bees brought to America were landed in Boston, Mass., 
1670, by some Englishman. 
A tea-spoonful of warm honey taken every 15 minutes has a 
surprising effect on catarrh. 
Diphtheria and sore throat in the early stages can be cured by 
honey taken warm, or in food. 
Onion juice instantly applied will allay the pain caused hy the 
stings of bees or other insects. 
Honey is one of the purest sweets used, and when its healthfulness 
is considered, it is the cheapest. 
What is the difference between a honey-comb and a honey-moon? 
The one is a lot of small cells, ani the other is one great sell ‘ 
Substitute Honey for sugar in the Recipes given in your cook-hook, 
and you will vastly improve the flavor. 
What is the difference between a bee and a donkey? One gets the 
honey, and the other the whacks (wax). 
If a boy wishes to know whether the bees see or not—let him put 
his finger into the entrance of a bee-hive! 
The constant use of honey is without the slightest danger, even 
during an epidemic of cholera. It cures constipation. 
A school-teacher asked a boy to pronounce s-t-i-n-g-y. Before 
doing so he asked whether it was to be applied to a man or a bee. 
Public speakers should freely use honey. The formic acid which 
it contains cures affections of the mouth, throat, lungs and chest. 
Doctors use honey for many purposes, and some doctors are good 
bee-keepers; and the purity of their medicines may be guaranteed. 
The pain and swelling consequent upon the stinging of a bee, will 
leave if bathed with equal parts of the tincture of aconite, laudanum. 
and chloroform. 
Because cheap cane sugars have been taken into the stomach in 
unreasonable quantity, the liver has been unable to transform them, 
resulting in disordering both organs. 
Bread broken up in a bowl, covered first with honey and then with 
a thick cream, and eaten, will permeate the organs of taste, and give 
the whole system a feeling of ecstasy and delight. Cream neutralizes 
any ill efiects the sweetness may produce in the human stomach. 
Children would rather eat bread and honey than bread and butter: 
one pound of honey will reach as faras two pounds of butter, and 
itis far more healthy and pleasant to the taste. It always remains 
good, while butter becomes rancid, and often produces cramp in the 
stomach, eructations, sourness, vomiting and diarrhea. 
The magnitude of the industry of ‘‘bees and houey” can be 
estimated by the fact that there are in North America 300,000 
who keep bees, and if these apiaries average but 10 colonies each, 
the number of colonies reaches 3,000,000, and if these produce but 
the very small average of 30 pounds of honey per colony, then the 
product is 90,000,000 of pounds of honey, worth 810,000,000 
and if each colony of bees yields but one pound of beeswax early, 
then the wax product at 20 cents per pound, is worth $600,000. 
