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THE ITALIAN IMMIGRANT.
Qflta an Imnftnae Amount of Pleasure
from Unexpected Sources—A
Clothee-Eeel Comedy.
The Italian immigrant has a
happy gift of extracting pleasure
from unexpected sources, so many
commonplace objects of his new
home are yet wonders to him. A
woman who lives in a pretty su-;
burban residence, the long garden
of which runs back to a small
court upon which a row of tene
ment houses has just been erect
ed, discovered this recently when
she found a group of dark-eyed,
dirty little boys dancing ecstat
ically on the platform of her
clothes dryer.
They were cheering on a daring
comrade, who was clinging to the
outer cross-bar of the reel, relates
the Youth’s Companion. One of
his mates had set it spinning, and
the other boy was dizzily gyrat
ing aloft, mingling his excited
squeals of joy with the creaks and
groans of the overburdened ma
chine. Even as she looked there
was an ominous snap, and the fly
ing cherub came suddenly to earth
at her feet, where he sat softly
rubbing himself and staring up at
her, too dazed to cry. For the sake
of their own youthful bones she
thought it a case for severity, and
began to scold the intruders as
sternly as she knew how, conclud
ing father helplessly with an im
patient, “Whatever made you do
such a silly thing, anyhow? An
swer me, can’t you?”
“Bullafuna, signorina!” whim
pered the fallen one. And it was
not until the remark was trans
I a Ktr on TufaVt vAim/foiAn
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was peeping through the fence,
that she learned what the Italian
lad meant.
“Sure, he says it’s bully fun,”
the Irish boy interpreted.
Arguments and remonstranees
quite failed to overcome the dan-:
gerous fascination of such a de- j
lightful gymnastic apparatus. The
woman had finally to take it down j
and resort to the ancient and in-j
convenient clothes-line instead, j
A far funnier case of perverted
entertainment occurred lately in
a Connecticut town in which the
drawbridge tender complained to
the police that the Italian resi
dents had fallen into the habit of
riding on the draw as if it were a
merry go round.
“Sometimes there's as many as
500 of them,” he complained; “so
many that the draw won’t work
properly, and it most kills me try
ing to turn the crank. When I
holler at them to get off, they just
holler back, and don’t budge. They
aren’t ugly, but they won’t mind.
They all come — mothers and
babies, fellows and girls, and
sometimes they bring a hurdy
ffurdfr and dance while the bridge
swings round. It’s fun for them,
but it’s death to me. It’s got to
be stopped or I’ll resign. Tht
nity didn’t hire me to run a whirl*
si le show to a circus.”
Caique Coametlc.
The cashew nut serves a unique pu^
pose as a cosmetic in the West indies,
where women, desiring to remove the
excessive tan, anoint the skin with aa
bil from the outer surface of the raw
nut. For two weeks the patient must
retire from society, for the face and
hands so treated turn black. At the end
of a fortnight's seclusion, however, the
woman who has undergone the cashew
treatment emerges, observers state,
“with skin and completion as. fair no *
babes."
Tempting Sandwiches.
At an afternoon tea some particular
ly attractive open sandwiches wen
served. Rounds of bread were spread
witn a mixture of cream cheese and
finely chopped olives. Around tha
edge of each larger pieces of olives
formed a sort of wreath and directly in
the center was a piece of olive. Brown
bread sandwiches made of cream
cheese and chopped olives are particu
larly delicious. Chopped green peppers
may also be mixed with them.—Detroit
Ttm Pres*.
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marmalade added.—Good Housekeep
Gold Production.
Australia and California have each ;
averaged a production of $45,000,0<K> 1
worth of gold a year, and the max- |
:-rn'’n production — $65.000 000 — hat
also been the same. Each country I
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h-*r of Mine**.
to nblnene <n Patter’s Field..
Among ’be thous*nda of bodies ,
buried in' the pottm- s fleld of Jiew i
York vk*r* » art on* of a Ctuaamea
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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 beema3ter 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
Belf in doubt as to “whether it be the
sweate of the heavens or a certain*
spittle of the starres or a juyce that th9
ayre purgeth 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 tne Kings part to go out each I
evening in search of any bees that had !
not returned to the hive by sunset, and
to show them the way home.
From the earliest times honey 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,
its 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
•yes were then anointed liberally with
the mixture, and clearness of vision
was the invariable reward.
In the old day3 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 waa to :
avoid anything of a red color, as this
was detrimental to the bees.
CURIOUS WORMS OF NORWAY
They Gather in Great Numbers Form'
i.ug a Serpent-Like Mass
When Migrating.
The Sciaras, of the genus Tiplux, a tiny
wormlike creature which is found in
the forests 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 j
Inches in thickness. As the scaria is
only on an average of about three-thir- j
ty-seconds of an inch in length, with no
appreciable breadth whatever, the num- j
her required to form a continuous line
Df 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 over
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
leopards that love the snow, and never
willingly descend below the levels
where snowstorms occur in summer as
well as in winter. The New York Zoo
logical park possesses, at present, a
beautiful specimen of the “snow leop
ard," whose home is among the lofty
mountains about Thibet. Thousands of
tanned skins of the snow leopard are
carried to Shanghai for sale, but the Ilv
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