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ODD FANCIES ABOUT BEES.
Old-Time Belief That Honey Was of
Celestial Origin and Other
Queer Notions.
In these days of scientific bee cul
ture, when bees are trained to pack
their honey in pound boxes ready for
market, and are as much under the
control of the beemaster as sheep are
of their shepherd, it is difficult to
realize what quaint delusions prevailed
only a few centuries back in every
thing relating to the hive and its in
habitants, says the Chicago Daily
News. The sources and composition
of honey were subjects for many in
genious speculations. One old writer
affirms it to be “made of the ayre.
most of all at the rising of the starrea,
chiefly the dogge shining out early in
the morning,’* although he admits him
self in doubt as to “whether it be the
sweate of the heavens or a certaine
spittle of the starres or a juyce that the
ayre purgefch from himselfe.’’ This be
lief in the celestial origin of honey
runs through all the old treatises on
apiculture, from the time of Virgil
downward. It was supposed to be a
kind of manna from heaven, and its
quality depended greatly on the favor
able or unfavorable juxtaposition of the
stars at the time of its descent
Although the existence in each hive
of one bee much larger than all the
others was generally recognized in old
en times, this was believed to be mere
ly a ruler or king over the rest That
the large bee was actually the mother
of the whole colony never seems to
have occurred to anyone until recent
times. This king bee is very fanci
fully described as having “a lofty pace
and countenance expressing majesty,
and a white spot in his forehead glis
tening like a diadem.” In each hive,
also, there were “subordinate govern
ors and leaders and captains and
colonels, marked by crests, tufts or tas
sels on their heads, some yellow, some
murrey.” Among various other duties
it was the king's part to go out each
evening in search of any bees that had
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to show them the way home.
From the earliest times hooey ap
pears to have been held in extraor
dinary favor as a universal specific, for
human ills. As a hair restorer it was
largely recommended, rubbed in plen
tifully night and morning, and if dead
bees were dried, pounded and worked
up into a thick paste with the honey,
lts hair-producing capabilities were
much enhanced. This mess had to be
plastered on the bald places of the head
ever night, with Infallible results in
the morning, if one may credit a cer
tain fifteenth century writer. For
weak eyes the same authority says to
take a handful of the heads of bees,
burn them, and mingle the ashes with
honey gathered in the dog days. The
lyes were then anointed liberally with
the mixture, and clearness of vision
was the invariable reward.
In the old days the situation of a
beehive was a matter of prime impor
tance. It was to be placed always on
the south side of a stream of water,
and never in a place where there were
echoes, as an echo was very injurious
to bees. A little gravel was to be put
down in the neighborhood of the hives,
as in windy weather the bees needed
small stones to carry about in their
Bight as counterpoises. The beekeeper
was recommended to shave and keep
his head close-cropped, long hair on
head or face being extremely offensive
to his charges, and in attire he was to
avoid anything of a red color, as this
was detrimental to the bees.
CURIOUS WORMS OF NORWAY
They Gather in Great Numbers Form
ing a Serpent-Like Mass
When Migrating.
The Sciaraa, of the genua Tiplux, a tiny
wormlike creature which is found la
the foreata of Norway and Hungary dur
ing the month of July or early In August
gather in huge numbers preparatory to
migrating in search of food or for a
Change of conditions. When setting out
on this journey, says Nature, they stick
themselves together by means of some
glutinous matter, and form a huge ser
pentlike mass, often reaching a length
of between 40 and 50 feet and several
Inches in uucKness. as tne scarta ta
only on an average of about three-thir
ty-seconds of 'an inch In length, with no
appreciable breadth whatever, the num
ber required to form a continuous line
of the size above mentioned is incal
culable.
Their pace is, of course, very slow,
and upon meeting an obstacle, such aa
a stick or stone, they either writhe orer
or around it, sometimes breaking into
two bodies for the purpose. A celebrated
French naturalist says that if the rear
portion of this snakelike procession be
brought into contact with the front part
the insects will keep moving round in
that circle for hours, never seeming to
realize that they are getting no further
on their Journey. If the portions be
broken In two the procession will unite
In a short time. When the peasant meets
one of these processions he will lay some
obstacle in front of it. If It passes over
It It is a good omen.
The Leopard of the Snows.
When we look at the leopards in a
menagerie our minds instinctively turn
to pictures of the hot tropics and the tor
rid lands of the equator. But there are
I leopards that love the snow, and never
willingly descend below the levels
where snowstorms occur in summer as
1 weli as in winter. The New York Zoo
logical park possesses, at present, a
i beautiful specimen of the “snow leop
I ard,” whose home is among the lofty
mountains about Thibet. Thousands of
i tanned skins of the snow leopard are
j carried to Shanghai for sale, but the liv
ing animal is rarely seen away from his
j cool mountain home.—Youth's Gornpaa
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MOST POPULAR NUMBERS.
Seven and Thirteen Are Fixed Upon
in the Minds of the Greater
Number of Men.
"Ask a man to pick out some num*
ber between one and ten, and you can
tell him nine times out of ten what
number he has selected, though his se
lection is made mentally,” said a man
who, according to the New Orleans
Times-Democrat, Is fond of the old
things, “and when you come to think
of it, the task of naming the correct
number is not a difficult one. In the
course of an hour the other day I
asked ten men to think of a certain
number—any number between one and
ten—and I would lell them what num
ber they had flsad their mind on |
In nine cases out of ten I was correct,
missing it only once. The minds ol
nine of the persons selected the num
ber seven, and one of them selected
nine. It is not difficult to understand
why the mind should run to the num
ber seven. Even in the case of thr
man who fixed his mind on the num
ber nine, he told me when it was all
over that his mind had first run to
seven, but he quickly changed to nina
without knowing just why it was that
he changed. Seven is the most prom- {
Inent figure between one and ten. It ;
U the most popular number in the line,
and is associated with more things
than any other number, and it is quite*
reasonable that the mind should light
on seven. I made another test the
other day with five persons, asklng«ach
of them to write some number between
one and ten, and give it to a sixth per
son. When the slips had been handed
to the sixth man I said: ‘Seven is the
number on each of the slips.’
" ‘Correct,” said the man to whom
they had been handed, and the five
men were a bit bewildered for the
moment by the fact that they had all
[lit upon the same number, and that I I
was able to tell what the number was.
It would be quite as easy to name a
number between 10 and 20, though I
have made no tests along this line. I
dare say that 13 would be the first
number to flash in the mind, simply
because it is the most talked of, and
the only number between 10 and 20
that has the widest association. So
you can tell there is no trick about It,
and It doesn’t require any knowledge
of the occult philosophies."
EXTENDING BOUNDARIES.
Some of Our Larger Cities Have An
nexed Ground Far Into Adja
cent Farm Lands.
According to a recently issued census
bulletin, the real rank of cities is not al
ways indicated by the order in which
they stand in the tables of population.
Some great centers have a considerable
part of their massed population lying
outside the municipal boundaries. Bos
ton is a good example; about 1,200,000
people live in sight of the state house !
dome, and less than 600,000 of them are
governed by the Boston mayor. Other ■
cities have annexed far into the farm i
lands of the adjacent country, says
Youth’s Companion.
It is customary to speak of the popula
tion of a state, “In proportion to its
size." Such a comparison is seldom
made of cities, although it might not be
uninteresting. Pittsburg, for example,
has a population of a third of a million
on 18,000 acres of ground; New York’s
population, little more than ten times i
as great, spreads over nearly 12 times ;
as many acres.
Chicago was long famous for its an
nexation habit, but since 1890 New York
has annexed much more territory than
Chicago’s total area. New Orleans has j
a slightly larger area than Chicago. I
Each of them covers six times the area
of Baltimore.
Washington, which occupies the Mary
land part of the ten miles square set
aside for a national capital, is a fair
sized city as area goes, for this genera
tion. It may seem smalt a century hence,
although it looked abundantly ample for
all the purposes of urban development j
when laid out.
In the case of cities, as well as of other !
i»ftrnfYPflflona orvnanlMioHAn in I
one of the tendencies of the times. More
than one-third of those in the United
States have added to their territory by
annexation since 1890. Townships and
counties are occasionally subdivided, by
reason of local interests, but the cities
seem to be steadily pushing their boun
daries outward. There are some eco
nomic reasons for this, but the reason
in many cases has been the desire of
their inhabitants to make a “good show
tag."
In the Bight Boom.
At the latest of the ladies' clubg a
"pets’ room," with little stalls for dogs
and cats, lemurs and lizards, all the
small creatures that a lady finds neces
sary as companions, is provided.
One of the most enthusiastic members
was showing her friends of her own sex
over the establishment, and opened the
door of the “pets’ room with proper
i iride.
There, in the center of the room, on
( two chairs, sat two immaculately
S clothed young men, grave of face, but
i with a wicked twinkle in their eyes,
j “Don’t you know this is the lathe*
‘pets’ room?”’ asked the enthusiastic
memher, with some acerbity.
‘‘That's why we are here,” replied the
more serious of the two young men, with
1 becoming gravity.—Sporting Times.
Longevity of Birds.
Small singing birds live from eight to
eighteen years. Ravens have lived foi
almost 100 years in captivity, and par
rots longer than that. Fowls live 10
iff 20 years. The wild goose lives up
ward of 100 years, and swans are said to
have attained the age of 300. The long
life of birds has been interpreted as
| compensation tor Us great mortality
! **t lasir
LOCAL TESTIMONIALS.
Newport. Ark.. March 20, 1905.
To the International Correspondence Schools,
| Scranton. Pa.
Gentlemen: I have taken two courses in
your schools—Electrical Engineering and Gas
Engines. The reference library furnished with
these courses is very complete, and alone worth
the price paid for the scholarships. I heartily
recommend the schools to all who wish to im
prove their business or technical education.
Respectfully,
J. W. McCarty.
INDEPENDENCE COUNTY BANK.
Batesville, Ark., March 16,1905.
To the Public:
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or am taking one, in Spanish with the Interna
tional Correpondence Schools of Scranton, Pa.,
using the phonograph, and from my previous
knowledge of this language and the help derived
through this method of study can say that I un
hesitatingly endorse same. Respectfully,
C. H. Hogan, Cashier.
Jonesboro, Ark., March 13, ’05.
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