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NATURAL MIMICRY. ' Insect whonn Feature Strtclngljr ltrim 1)1 n Tlioise of Oilier Imects. Sonic insects havo a deceptive resem blance to members of tho vegetable world, cither fortlio!iurpose of protect ing themselves or for that of decoying their prey. But a nioro wonderful sim ulation is that of the features of other insects. Thero is in Borneo a sand wasp which is addicted to the habit of devouring cricket.), but there is also a species of cricket which exactly repro duces the appearance of its enemy, so that it can oven associate with it un discovered. A species of mantis imi tates the white ant. and mixing with tho family, like one of its own members, quietly devours a fat termite, from time tto time. Plies often dwell as unbidden tgucsts in the nests and hives of wild honey-bees. Thoy aro belted and bearded in tho self-sanio pattern as tthcir unconscious hosts, but their larvto pay for tho hospitality they steal by devouring the young grubs of tho hivo. Beetles often imitato hornets, sinco tho latter aro insects to which birds in search of animal food prefer to give a very wide berth. Even tho mimicry of stinging insects ' is sometimes per formed ly innocent little creatures quito destitute of any such means of defence. A common insect, known in England as tho devil's coach-horse, throws up its tail in tho aggressive fashion of a scorpion, wncn irritated, but it has no hint of a sting-. In its warlike attitude it is exceedingly alarm ing, not only to boys and girls, but to chickens and birds. Tho bumble-beo Hies, which aro inoffensive littlo crea tures, imitating tho wild bee, Hit about and buzz angrily in tho .sunlight, quito after the fashion of the insect thoy copy, and gain an undeserved reputation of .fierceness. Certain beetles have become modified to rcscmblo wasps, even to tho extent of lo.-ing their solid waists for others pf ultra-fashionable slenderncss, and others, which mimic bees, havo acquired useless littlo tufts of hair on their shanks, to represent tho pollcn gathcring apparatus of tho tl uo bees. A curious caso of imitation is that of two species of Malayan orioles, which aro almost exact counterparts of two varieties of hoiioy-suckers. Tho latter aro such fierce birds as to bo avoided by all their feathered neighbors and thus tho orioles find their own deceptive plumage a great protection. Youth' a Companion. DOMESTIC SERVITUDE. Tlio I)ltTroiic lltweii Tidy, Intelligent (lirla mill Slovenly Nnliinenn. Tho question of domestic servitude is bocoming a very serious ono, and tho housekeepers aro denouncing the women sorvants, right and left. Lot us suggest to them in good nature that tho word "servant" is rather a harsli term to apply to any ono in a republic'. Wo do not believe that any ono is any body's servant in this country. Cer tainly the girl who does work in your home, often well born, is no more "a servant" than is the clerk in your store or ollice. Of course thero are many t'oarso and illiterate girls working in 3;itelns as "second helps," or oven as seamstresses; but there are also many estimable, refined girls, tho pride of in telligent parents and tho best of peo ple, who are doing tho saino kind of work. And such girls aro often called "servants" by snobs of both sexes, who aro without a tithe of their real gentility or actual refinement. Itistlie shoddy habit of calling all girls who work out "servants" that is largely to blame for making such work so unpop ular that the best of girls do not wish to do it. Thoy know all too well that thoughtless people class all such working-people alike ranking the refined, educated, well-bred girl with the coarse, illiterate, ill-mannered, very boor of a girl, and milking no distinction bet ween them. Thoughtful people and fair minded people" should think of these things. This brings us to what wa consider tho great fault oT the people employing such services. No difference is luado botwoen good girls, good cooks, tidy housekeepers, intelligent malingers and their opposite "greenies," who know nothing about cooking, slatterns, slov ens ami nuisances. Tho girl who docs her work well, neatly and economically gets no more pay than the blockhead who is a terror and a nuisance- from tho time she comes into tho house till sho goes out of it. Merit, competency, tidi ness, decency, good manners, good nd dress, intelligent interest in all work, gets no better pay than incompetency, slovenliness, ill appearance, wasteful ness, heedlessness and carelessness. What object is it to n girl to be compe tent or to do well; tho girl who is just tho other way gofs just as much as sho docs. It is so man) dollars alike to tho good and the bad, the excellent and tho trashy, the diisirablo girls and tho mil sauces. Boston Budget. Writing of tho Derailed. Tho manuscripts of neuropaths a word wide enough to include tho slight nnd tho severe disturbances of mental B.inlty present certnin typical charac teristics. They abound in italicised words; in exclamation points and punct uations after almost ovory word; in fro quont use of capitals;' in various sizes of writing, particularly much very largo writing; and tho like. It is not often that such pcoplo havo the oppor tunity of going to print and converting tho compositor to their peculiar system of typography. M. lttchot prints a fow specimen pages of such an author, and counts twolvo different kinds of letters In flovonteim Hues, besides the usual capitals, exclamation points, and so on, in groat abundance. All this is signifi cant of an excited, prancing statu of mind, closely nlliod to delirium -and mania. Science. THE AMERICAN MASTIFF. An Knclluli View on tlio Chnrnctcrlntlc I'olnlH or Till Noble Dor. The American mastiff, as it exists to day, is an artificial brled, whoso char acteristics are maintained only by the most careful breeding. There is there fore opportunity for tho greatest di versity of appearance, nil depending as it docs on tho selection and crossing of various strains of blood. This di versity shows itself frequently in the matter of size. Tlio minimum height allowed by the English Mastiff Club is twenty-seven inches. Tho maximum height of the.lirecd is said to be thirty four inches, but a height greater than thirty-one or thirty-two inches is sel dom attained. Tho height should be produced by depth of body, and. not by length of leg. Massiveness of frame should bo the first consideration, stat lire the second. Yet for 'many years the one idoa of the American breeder was to obtain height. To get this he seemed willing to sacrifice every characteristic of the breed, introducing crosses of mongrel blood that have proved most unfortunate in their ef fects, all tho time ignoring tho fact that great height, though desirable, is not an essential characteristic of tho mastiff. This seems one of the most difficult things for the trio to learn. It is not desired that these statements should be taken as a declaration in fa vor of small size in the mastiff. The aim of tho breeder should bo toward the largest dog that can be produced without a sacrifice of that most valua ble attribute which the breeder calls type of character. A mastiff twenty seven inches high should weigh one hundred and twenty pounds, and ono thirty-two inches high should weigh one hundred and eighty pounds. Tho head is the great point. The choice lies between a dog with a head like Hero III., or a dog with u head like l'haraoh. Both typos have in this country thoir'adniirers and advocates. Wo believe that there has never been any authoritative declaration on the question by any of tho American ken nel clubs, but wo quote an extract from tho points of tlio mastiff as declared by the English Mastiff Club: "Head very massive and short, with great breadth and depth of skull and squareness of inu..le. Expression lowering. Forehead broad, Hat and wrinkled. Muzzle short, truncated, deep and broad, not taporing toward the nose. Jaws very wide." It is claimed by sonio that a dog of great size and perfect formation, with such a head as that above described, is contrary to the laws of nature, and can not bo produced. This assertion is based on certain scientific analogies, and on the fact that so many of the broad, short-headed mastiffs are either small in size or weak in legs. Tlio lat ter tletect, Doing peculiarly prevalent in heavy mastiffs, leads to the impres sion that tho mastiff is naturally a slow, unwieldy animal; but this is not true. Strength and agility should be united in him, and from the present stand-point there seems to bo no good reason why a mastiff with a typical head and of large size should not be produced as strong and agile as a cer tain English specimen which was known to bo able to seize in his jaws tho carcass of a full-grown sheep and leap with it over an average stone wall. If a dog of short head and massive size can not be produced, it would seem that we must be contented with a dog of smaller size than usually thought de sirable, or else abandon the mastiff and construct anew dog in his place. For, many years ago, before the days of the EnglisiiMaxt ill CI ub.Cuvier.inost careful of naturalists, wrote that the character istics of the mastiff were "shortness of upper jaw, projection of lower jaw be yond the upper, causing the teeth to be undershot, height of forehead, depth ami breadth of muzzle and massiveness of head." Of the three colors which character ize the mastllf, tlio red, tho briudlo and the fawn, the last seems to bo rogardod in America, as well as in England, with by far the most favor. When that grand briudlo Ilford Cromwell was first exhibited in this country, it was thought that lie would turn tho fashion toward his color; but such was not tho case, and if one may judge by the show bench ho has not been used much as a sire. Vet, apart from his color, this dog is one of the best, and in the minds of some judges tho best mastiff in this country. However, the briudlo has its admirers. It has been a fashionable color in tlio bulldog, and is highly prized in those gigantic Ger mans, the Ulmordogs, and thoro seems to bo no real objection to it in the mas tiff. Several of the most famous speci mens of tlio breed havo boon of this color. The red is tlio least desirable color, and it is quito rare. Wo call to mind only one specimen in recent shows, anil that a very indifferent ani mal. Ono attraction in tlio fawn-color is tho sharp and effective contrast pro duced with the donso black mark and oars. The black mark renders essen tial the dark mastiff oyo tho oyo, where it is light in color, giving the dog's face an implrasaut, almost sin ister, expression. 'Charles C. Marshall, in Harper's Magazine. "Now, Job," said Mrs. Shuttle, "those trousers nro altogether too big for tho boy. Tlioy'll havo to bo changed." "No, thoy won't. They're all right. I bought 'cur where thoy advertise 'boys' clothing to play in.-' Thoy aro just big enough for him to play in without going out of doors. They're so roomy." Hattford Post. Frowning minister Who made. the world in six ilaysP" Frlghtoned Hoy "Please, sir; I dldu'L" THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. Tho Vnt Intent of tlio Cr.ar' Dominion In Kure nntl Atn. The Empire of the Czar is so vast in it extent that it bewilders the mind to attempt to form a picture of it. Sweep ing from the Whtto Sea, tho Polar Ocean, at tho north of Europe, cast ward to the Sea of Japan and the waters of America, where sho lias ceded to the United States a domain in tho Now World larger than France; embracing the vast realm of Siberia; bordering upon China on the south, .ind touching Afghanistan at the gate of India; Hanking Persia, and hover ing like a dark cloud over the whole oi tho Turkish Empire, while on the ex treme west she faces Germany, Ausj tria and the new kingdom of Botiman ia, Russia presents, in one compact mass, a territory such as no earthly monarch lias ever before ruled over. To the people of the narrowed king doms of Europe, who watch jealously every movement of Kussia, the Empire is grand, mysterious and fearful. They know its more than eighty million people include many strange races, all of whom seem willing to serve their Emperor. He has at his command a standing army of more than six hun dred thousand men, and could call un der arms two million soldiers. The vastnessaiid mystery of the Empire make it even more formidable than do the figures which represent its armed men. Tho distant camps of the primitive Aryans, who still worship tho sacred lire; the Iranians and their ancient enemies, the barbarous Turanians, at peace at last under the Hag of a foreign master; Tartars of every ort, faithful in their allegiance to their white mas ter; Georgians, Circassians and Arme nians; rude Sifnioyedes, people like Esquimaux in tho extreme north; troops upon troops of Cossacks, the organized "cowboys" of Kussia; and then tlio great mass of European Rus sians, with tho Lapps and Finns, and myriads of Jews; all those diverse peoples belonging, with all their goods and their very lives, to ono man, and one only, tlio Great White Czar all these make up aTiigue but formidable whole. It is no wonder that the statesmen ot Europe have Russia seldom out of mind, and that thoy sometimes attrib ute to her the strangest and darkest purposes, some of them tho most un likely for her to entertain. The Nation whoso people are most jealous of the power of Russia is tho English, for it looks upon the Czar as the greatest if not tho only danger to its possessions in India. But Russia lias another rival in Austria-Hungary, for tho interests of tlio two Nations in tlio countries wlnoli nave neon trom timo to tune sliced oft' tlio Turkish Empire -ire con stantly clashing. Toward Germany Russia is friendly, and tho German Government seeks to maintain tlio best of relations with tlio Czar; but there is jealousy between tho two countries tlio two greatest and most command ing powers in Europe. The people of Franco aro most friendly toward Rus sia, because they see the rivalry with Germany, and they have a p id verb: "M next-door neighbor is my enemy, but my next-door neighbor but one is mt natural friend, because he is tho enein of my enemy." The power of peace or war lies in the hands of Alexander 111., Emporor n! Russia, but he is not likely to exercise it lightly. Although he is an absolute monarch, he could not govern long against tho wisli of his people. His power is not limited by a parliament, but ho feels none the less the influence of the thought of the people, and no absolute sovereign was probably over more in sympathy with tlio inclina tions of bis people than Alexander III. Thoy desire peace, and it is probable that ho also, desires it. But ho is a warlike monarch, and the Russian people have become used to war, so that it is almost a second nature to thorn. A small event may precipitate a great conflict. Youth's Companion. Adulterated Spices. Tho chemists of the Department of Agriculture, under direction of Com missioner Column, havo been for some time engaged in investigating the ex tent ami manner of adulterating the groceries in common use, commencing witn spices and condiments. Of twenty samples of ground cloves examined only two were pure; tho others had suffered tho extraction of their essen tial oils and had been polluted by tjie addition of clove stems, allspice and husks of various kinds. Of eight sam ples of cayenne pepper only one was pure Of ten samples of mustard none wore pure, unchanged mustard; tho others contained quantities of wheat flour, which made it necessary to add tumerio acid to' restore the mustard color. A specimen of pepper sent from Baltimore to a man who had an army contract was found to bo spuri ous. Cayenno pepyor, black popper husks and mustard hulls wore used to give flavor and pungency, while "body" was supplied by ground beans and rice, and color by charcoal. Two samples of white popper out of tivo wore pure, two samples of mace out of livo were pure, and of tlireo samples of nutmeg examined all wore pure. Boston Budget. Blgsby "Oh, dearl I don't be lieve I got ihreo hours' sloop out of twenty-four now." Dumpscy "Yos. Insomnia is a torrlblo infliotion." Blgsby "That may be, but it don't compare with a" baby." Burlington Free Press. Sovon-tonths of tho dry portion of corn is pure starch, and starch forms about four-fifths of all human food. THE COST Oe HONEY. An AptcnlturlU' I'latnt About tlio I'rnllt of CommUMnn Men nnil Itetiiller. How can wo receive a fair compen sation for our honoj' products? 'lids is no doubt tho most serious quest ion of tlio da', to our business. Certainly, wo say, if wo can not find an outlet for our honey at a fair remuneration, there is no use in continuing to pro duce it. For years wo havo labored to reduce bee-keeping to a science, and now that wo have attained tlio long sought goal, must wo lay down our smoker and enter some other occupa tion that will oiler a bettor field for our labor? I say, not As wo have fought all difficulties in tho past, and overcome them; let us. light this ono in tlio future. We can certainly over come it, if we go at it "with a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull alto gether." Let us seo in tho first place, where and with whom tho trouble lies, and then we shall have some foundation on which to lay our plans. Honey,. in one sense, is a luxury, but why is it? Certainly not because there is not enough produced to render it a staple, for tons of it lie in tlio markets of our largo cities from one year's end to another. It is not under-production which renders it a luxury, but the ex orbitant prico asked for it by tlio retail or. It has Leon- urged by many that the trouble lies with tlio middleman. L'o a certain extent this is true, but it lies more witli the middlc-mcu than with tho middlc-mriM for, strange as it may seem, there nro two, three, and in many cases four men between the producer and the consumer. Take two or three men away, and tho result would be encouraging, for they must all live, and, what is more, they do live, and at our expense. There is no alternative the middlemen must go. I speak more particularly of the coin mission men than I do of the jobber, for at present it seems that the jobber is a necessary post, but the commission men aro one of the evils that wo must get out of the way. Now for the greatest evil of them all, to my muni (and I have made the mat ter a thorough study) the retailor. Ho it is that by small degrees is fast robbing us of our well-earned bread and butter, and is gradually undermin ing our industry. Still, in justice to him, I might say, I know it iu very natural for people to want largo profits, but with honey the retailer stands in his own light, as well as blowing ours almost out. Let us say, for example, that the retailer goes to the jobber and buys a first grade white comb honey for twelve or thirteen cents per pound. Ho takes it to his storo and immediate ly puts a placard on it which bears tlio following: "New clover 'lonoy only twenty-live cents per pound." Ah! "There's tho rub." There, friends, is the sign that makes honey a luxury and robs the producer of . his hard-earned living. Here is the re tailer making a clear ono hundred per cent, on every pound of our lionev ho' handles. Now poor pcoplo who lovo honey can not afford to pay twenty five cents per pound for it, and the wealthy class can not consume enough to empty our markets. What then, is the result? There seems to be only ono answer it is a luxurv, and the poor can not afford to buy it. Now suppose t his same dealer should, instead of putting twenty-live cents on the glowing placard, put fifteen cents and thus be satisfied with two cents profit on each pound; what would be the result? Why, he would sell fifty pounds where he only sold ono at the former price, and this is wliero 1 claim ho stands in his own light. For tut that price the poor people would con sumo it by tho carload, for it would then be just half tho price of butter, anil is cortaiuly better for children than butter. How, then can wo overcome this ol staele? There are several ways, but wo must have tho united efforts of the bee-keepers. Thoro could be a stock company formed for the sole purpose of handling honey. Let the stock bo hold by the bee-keepers, and tho company run in their inter ests entirely. There is a honey company abroad, and I leaun that it has met with unqualified success. It would bo well in this cao to follow in tlio stops of our English brothron and protect our interests. 1 would say, have tho stock shares very low, so that the smallest producer could bo a stock holder, and thus a company of this kind in New York could command every pound of honoy that was sout to that eitv. What is more, thov could establish agencies in other cities, and it would bo but a matter of time before tho bco-koepers would bo protootod in ovory sense. Again, thoy might uulto on a stand ard prico for which thoy would soli their honoy and put labels on ovory box, with tlio prico plainly printed, telling tho public to pay no more than tlio box prico. Then wo should havo tlio public's watchful oyo to help us. There nro many ways to romedy this evil, and the subject is a broad one. I trust that our boo-keopers will wake up and consider this question of protec tion, IT. B. Treadwell, in Country Gentleman. A Buffalo lady had a curious ex perience in travoling in Now York lately. It was a stormy night, and a high wind was blowing in fiorco gusts. In passing from ono car to another a suddon blast wrapped hor skirts around tho brake, and in frocing hersolf tho cloth was badly ront. Tlio pockot of tlio dress was torn off, and hor pocket book, containing money, tickets, keys and chocks, sailed off into the black night. Chicago 3mcs. BOWSER AS A GARDENER. Mr. Downer Tell Vhr I" l'tantntloa Va a Howling Failure. "Well, I'm going to have a garden this spring," announced Mr. Bowsci as he entered tho house tho other day "You you can't mean it?" "Mrs. Bowser, when I say I'm going to have a garden I don't want to b understood as meaning that I'm going to havo a brickyard." "But you remember last year?" "Certainly, I remember last year What of it? I set out to make a gar den, and you and tlio dog and the neighbors' liens, and a hailstorm and the bugs, beat mo out of it." "Well, of course, you will do as you think best, but I'm sorry to seo the yard all torn up for nothing." "That's just like you! No matter what enterprise Uiave on hand you al ways try to discourage mo. You aro a nice help-meet, you are! I might as well fold my hands and sit down and wait for the poor house. I shall begin on the garden to-morrow." A year ago lie came rushing into the house one spring day with some seeds which some one had given him, and announced that he was going to have a garden. Most of our back yard is in the shade, and no ono of sense would expect any thing to grow there,, but Mr. Bowser had it spaded up and made into beds, and ids enthusiasm was won derful. "Don't want a garden, eh!" he chuckled, as he brought mo to the back door to survey tho beds. "Doesn't this remind you of old times on tlio farm?" "Y-c-s, but I'm afraid the soil will be too cold." "Oh, you are! Perhaps you have been reading up on soils, and are pro paring a series of articles for some agricultural paper! You can go and attend to your rick-rack." "But you can warm the soil by run ning steam pipes under it, and 1 don't thiuk the cost would bo 6ver fifteen hundred dollars!" If I hadn't shut tho door I think Mr. Bowser would have hurled the spade at me in his sudden anger, but after a few minutes spent in reflection he be gan measuring back and forth and sticking stakes, and lie afterwards ac knowledged to mo in a burst of confi dence that ho intended to try hot bricks at five feet apart. He made a list of the stuff he put into tho ground. There were pumpkin, squash, cucum ber, watermelon, cantelope and turnip seeds, and he put in some seed onions, made a bed for lettuce, and his work was done for tho time. He had broken three pairs of suspenders beyond re pair, spoiled two pairs of pantaloons, ripped tlireo shirts down the back and lost a twenty-dollar gold piece in the dirt, but he was happy and enthusias tic. "Just think, Mrs. Bowser!" lie ex claimed as lie waved his hand over his garden, "of walking out and culling your own vegetables, grown on your own land, and covered with the dows fresh from Heaven!" "And covered with our own worms and bugs, I suppose?" "There you are! You'd die if you couldn't say something moan! 1 used to wonder why some families didn't get along better, but now 1 see through the mystery." Has any tiling sprouted yet?" "None of your business! Don't you dare to look over my garden! If I raise fifty thousand lig, luscious mel ons, vou shan't even have a piece of rindf" ' The next week ho brought home two dozen tomato plants and set them out. While he was down town 1 went out to look at them, and when he returned I asked him if lie was certain they were tomato plants. "Am 1 certain that 1 am alive at this moment!" ho roared. "Perhaps I have traveled this country from Maine to Texas to he taken in by a fanner!" "Well, I hope they'll turn out to bo tomato plants, but thov look to mo like." "Bosh' Most any thing looks queer to a cross-eyed woman!" L am satisfied that Mr. Bowser used seeds enough on that garden to plant it five deep. WJiatever he could hear of he got, and whatever he brought homo wont into tlio ground before ho could rest. His tomato plants didn't do well. They got liver complaint and turned yollow, and they got malaria anil shivered all day long and one afternoon ho brought a friend up to seo what ailed them. "Bowser, that's a potato-stalk or I'm a fool!" "No!" "Woll it is, and you might as well pull up and throw tho others away!" I hoard it all, but never let on. In Juno sonio of the things began to sprdut, ami our garden was tho talk of the neighborhood. Thoro wore wheat, oats, lettuce, barley, clover, onions, broom-corn, water-melons, pig-weeds nnd boots all coming up together, and men hung ovor tho fenco nnd laughed till they cried. Mr. Bowser treated the subject with suoh a loftj air that I asked no questions, but ono day when I had boon ovor to mother's I returned to find the garden gone and the sods restored. "Wasn't it a succoss, darling?" I askod that evening. "Wasn't what a succoss?" "Tho garden, of course." "Could a garden bo a success with people throwing hot water and hair-oil bottles and old shoos at ovory sprout that showed its head above ground? Mrs. Bowser, you wore malioiously de termined that I should not havo a gar den, and you've triumphed for the hour, but boware! It's a long road that haa no turn!" Detroit Free Prets. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. i Ono of the industries of tho boys and girls atLowville, N. Y., is the gath ering of spruce gum. A great many make over fivo dollars a day. The hop crop last year was about 95,000 tons, while the estimated con sumption is 81,000 tons, leaving a sur plus of 10.000 tons. Yet, as the hop crop is sometimes very uncertain, prices may go up again before tho close of 1887, Cleveland Leader. In a recent lecture before the Royal Society of Edinburgh John Murray, of the Challenger expedition, said lie be lieved that, taking its sizo into consid eration, there was no country in tho world with a better record of scientific work or a greater mass of scientific lit erature than Scotland during tho past twenty year's. Chicago Timet. There is not so much need of sand paper in the manufacture of furniture and all cabinet work nowadays, as tho machinery used turns out very perfect work. It is estimated by ono of tho largest manufacturers of sand-paper in the country that not more than seventy per cent, of the amount of last year's business will be done this year. Boston Budget. ( 'i A vexing and unsettled question in physiology is, "Why aro not tho walls of stomach and intestines themselves di gested by their own fluids?" Because these tissues are living, was tho answer of John Hunter in 1772, but Dr. J. W. Warren has just disproved this expla nation by digesting the legs of living frogs in artificial gastric juice Spring field Times. Mr. Stephen Salisbury, of Worces ter, Mass., lias just given to tho Tech nical Institute of that city .$100,000, to be used in the erection and equipment of a building for laboratories for me chanical, physical and chemical science as a memorial to his father, tho lato Stephen Salisbury, who for a great many years was president and chiof patron of the institute Chicago Trib une. The invention of a new optical glas3 is said to bo creating a sensation in tho German scientific world. Tlio glass, owing to its great refractory power, promises to bo of marked influence in practical optics, inasmuch as it will ad mit of the production of lenses of short focal width, such as it has hitherto been impossible to obtain. For microscopic photography it will bo of tho greatest importance. Public Opinion. At a meeting of tlio Physiological Society of Berlin it was given as a fact that when tho boo has filled his cell and has completed tho lid a drop of formic acid, obtained from tho poison bag con nected with the sting, is added to tho honey b' perforating the lid with the sting. This formic acid preserves honey and every other sugar solution from fermentation. Most of the insects that have a stinging apparatus similar to that of tho bee aro collectors and storers of honey, so the sting lias a double function it is a weapon and a pickle. Footers Health Monthly. m m PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. California raisin growers expect to make an average of $100 an acre this season. The old saying, "Worili. not wealth," means that you can't buy any thing of Worth unless you have wealth. "Mr. and Mrs. Bullion called this afternoon, sor." "Too bad; and wo were out. Did they leave any mes sage?" "Yes, sor: ho said, 'Good, good; tell him I'm so sorry he were not at home.' " He (at dinner) "May I assist you to tho cheese. Miss Vassar?" Miss Vassar (just graduated) "Thanks, noj I am very comfortable whore 1 am. But vou may assist tho cheese to mo, if you will!" Pttrt: A Division of Labor. He "Where are you going, my pretty maid?" She "Pin going a-inilking, sir" (she said). He "Can I not help you, my pretty maid?" She "You can work tlio pump-handle, sir" (she said). Puck. The tallest man in tho world is supposed to bo an Austrian named Winkelmeier, twenty-two years of age. His height is eight feet and three inches, being a foot moro than that of Chang, the Chinese giant. Chlcaqo Advance. HE GREAT REGULATOR PURELY VEGETABLE. Are You Bilious ? The llegulator never fail to cure. I moM cheerfully reommend it to all who suffer from lliliout Attacks or any Disease caused by a dis. arranged state of the Liver. Kansas City, Mo. W. R. BERNARD. Do You "Want Good Digestion ? 1 suffered intensely withl'itll Stomach, ireail oric, etc. A neighbor, who had taten Simmons Liver Regulator, toUl me it was a sure cure for my trouble. The first dose I took relieved me very much, and in one week's time I was as strong and hearty as lever was. It in the best meillclne J errr took ' Jlyspepsiii. Ru HMONO. Va. . G. CREXSHA W. Do You Suffer from Constipation ? 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