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GOVERNMENT BEES.
Baiy Insects Helxnn Insr to the A u r 1
cultural Department Swarm
to Market.
Doubtless the only members of the
i government’s gignatic force of em
ployes whogoto workbefore nine o’clock
i a. m. and continue toiling until sun
: down are the Itaiian bees kept by the de
partment of agriculture. These, the
j smallest of our domestic animals, are
kept by the department for experimental
! purposes and for stocking its various
substations, says the Washington Post.
J Some time ago these government bees
j discovered that Center maket was a
j far better pasture than the flower beds
! and vegetable gardens of the depart
ment, and there they resort every day,
to no small discomfort and annoyance of
commission dealers, hucksters, gard
ners and restaurant proprietors, whose
stock in trade the industrious little in
sects prey upon.
In some cities the rats and mice are
troublesome, and in others crickets,
grain insects, and various other bugs
prey upon the perishables, but Center
market is the only market in the United
States where the most serious pest is the
insects which belong to the government.
They eat holes in the peaches, poach on
the grapes, gather honey from cante
! lniinps and are the first to find the soft
spots in pineapples and bananas. What
is more, there are about Center market
a number of open-air eating booths, to
which the bees resort in large numbers
to collect honey from various sweet
dishes, particularly apricot, apples,
peach, prune and huckleberry pie. The
funny part of it all is that the commis
sion dealers, fruit handlers and res
taurant keepers are afraid to offer any
opposition to their intrusion for fear
the plucky little insects will resent it.
Hardly a week passes that some one
does not get stung, by the government
bees, who object to rough handling and
treatment. With the juice and wax
which they collect from apples, melons,
peaches, oranges, pineapples, grapes,
bananas and pies in the market, they
lay up their store of winter honey. The
only time the restaurant keepers are
! able to even up with these little pests is
when they have a batch of hot pies or
I bread pudding on hand. They it hap
! pens accasionally that some over-hasty
government bee gets his feet scorched.
1 In such cases they hover about the pies
; until they have cooled off, now and then
alighting on the crust to test the tern
; perature of the tempting bait.
NEGROES SANG AT WORK.
And Entertained French Opera Sing-,
ers in the Streets of New
Orleans,
The French opera singers were specta
| tors of a picturesque street scene a night
or two ago in the vicinity of the old
| French opera house, says the New Or
j leans Times-Democrat. Bourbon street
wras being paved with asphalt, and the
work was being hastened so as to have
that portion of the street near the opera
| house accessible for carriages by the
time of the opening of the French op
| era season.
On this account an unusually large
| force of workmen were engaged, and in
order to push the work to an early com
: pletion the men worked at night, huge
torches being used. In one block, be
tween St. Louis and Toulouse streets.
more man iuu meu were wunuug.
Every one familiar with the negro
knows that, in so far as he is able, he
| sets his work to music. It is a fact often
i marveled at that the negro, when he is
; singing or chanting in a sort of rhythmic
I mood, works with more ardor than under
different conditions. And if an extra de
mand is made on the negro workman be
j sinjis or chants the louder._
The members of the French opera, or
at least many of them, heard for the first
time the real melody of the negro voice
j that night It was that swishful, poetic
thing caricatured in the ragtime of the
stage, a certain subtle, indefinable some
thing which no composer has ever been
i able to fit to the well-measured octaves
of musical arrangements. It was the
tuneful, heaving call of the levee, the
| mellow sunset cry of the cotton Helds.
The flaring torch, the bustling hither and
thither, the heavy fall of the implements
of toil—all those things gave exquisite
j tone to the setting.
Pnragnar Tea.
There comes from Paraguay to the
Journal of Tropical Medicine news of
j an apparently harmless beverage which
! is the sole stay and stimulant of the
working classes in Paraguay and the
Argentine Republic. It is often known
| as Paraguay tea or mate, and an at
tempt made to Introduce it into this
! country some years ago failed because
—as we may guess;—there were more
potent competitors in the field. It is
; usually drunk as a hot infusion, through
a metal tube, but may be taken like tea,
with milk and sugar. Workmen take it
with them wherever they go and sip it
occasionally. Wood cutters will work
on it for five or six hours before break
fast, and the writer declares that, taken
at night, it makes nursing, study or what
doctors call "night work” real pleasure.
Analysis does not explain these results,
and lifelong and persistent use appears
to have no evil consequences. This
would be a good substitute for the num
berless patent medicines which supply
alcohol to women, or even, in at least
one familiar case, cocaine.—London
Chronicle,
New Variety of Pheasant,
The European pheasant is being
crossed with the Asiatic variety. The
result is a larger bird, much quicker and I
stronger on the wing, and more prettily I
marked.
Schools Open at Night.
Twenty schoolhouses in New York
have been opened this fall as recreation
. centers for the neighborhoods in which
Hfeey are situated.
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