Centre Democrat. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, August 30, 1883, Image 2
The Old Churchyard. Brcatho Holt ami low, O wliifl|><irinj( wiud, Above the tangled giaMea drop, Where those who loved me loug ago Forgot the world and fell asleep. No towering shaft or sculptured urn, Or mausoleum's empty prido, Tells to tho curious posscr-by Their virtues, or the time thoj died. I count tho old lamiliar names, O'orgrown with moss and lichen gray, Where tangled brier and creeping vine Acrosa the crumbling tablets stray. The summer sky is aoltly blue; "Hie birds still sing tho sweet, old strain} But something Irom the summer-timo Is gone, that will not come again. So many voices havo been husbod— So many songs have teased lor aye— So many hands I used to touch Are folded over hearts ol clay. The mossy world recedes from mo— I cease to hear its praise or blame; "Hie mossy marbles echo back No hollow sound or empty tamo. I only know that, calm ami still, They sleep beyond life's woo and wail, Beyond tho fleet of sailing clomls, Hoyotid the sha low of tho vale; I only feel that, tired and worn, I halt upon the highway hare. And gaze with yearning eyes beyond To fields that shine supremely lair. The Wooden Wedding, "Btike, do you know that :t week from to-morrow will ho tho timber an niversary of that dear connubial day, when Cupid, hovering over tho altar tied tho hymenial knot which made us twain?" Hon delivered the above lino bit of oratory, not in tho offer' vo, off-hand manner which proves the impromptu, I but with a halting precision which be trayed the effort it had cost to furniu- , late and remember it; nor was it the i first line speech I have heard delivered | with an effort. "I supjwi.se you mean our wooden ' wedding," I replied. "\es, but doesn't timber mean wood, I'd like to know? Now I'll toll you what I've been thinking. I want to celebrate it. A celebration of that sort would be a new thing in this nook of woods, you see, and I think it would take big. It wouldn't cost much, and there is no telling the useful things j which our friends might bring us The milk, eggs, butter, meat, fruit and flour we have in plenty now, and. Ac- Cording to my figuring, ten dollars for 1 sweets and other jim-cracks would furnish a sumptuous supper for fifty or more persons. 1 read the other day about an old fellow of eightv, married , to his fourth wife, who celebrated his wooden wedding, and his friends who attended the supper brought them just j oodles of things, among the rest a set of parlor furniture and a nice top buggy. I lielieve it pays to celebrate one's wooden wedding, to say nothing of the pleasant occasion of meeting one's friends. I'll fix up the back porch for them to pile the heavy fur niture on, and if any one brings a new reaper or a top buggy it can just l>e left in the door-yard. Those who bring 'precious g-wwls in small pack- j ages' can put them : the parlor table. I have written out the invitation card, which I will re.wl to you; 'We, the undersigned, have concluded to surprise our friends, and give them an j opportunity of showing their appre ciation of us, by celebrating our wood- i en wedding on date the . All who receive a duplicate of this card are cordially requested to come and bring a good appetite and whatever other valuable piece of furniture his or her generosity may suggest. benjamin and .Sukey.' There, if you will allow me, I think that'sstraight tothe point, and (latter myself it is somewhat orig inal." "For mercy's sake lien, stop and : take breath and let me speak. It is very easy to talk alwiut entertaining and furnishing supper for fifty or more guests, but it is not so easy to make the needed arrangements. How do you suppose I am going to get through such an affair, and no help to be had this side of Africa, that I know of? Here is a bit of wisdom I w ant you to stow away for future reference too. The good appetites brought to celebra tions of the kind you desire to make, | generally far outnumber all other \al uable pieces of furniture produced for the occasion." "Now suke. don't go and spoil all ' my nice plans with a big wet blanket. My heart is so set on this celebration. You know a fellow cannot have but one wooden wedding, unless—unless he -marries again, and somehow I just feel it in my bones that we will have a jolly time, and our friends will do a nice thing by us, In the way of pres ents, you know. I'll help cook." The next two days Ben spent writ ing out the invitations, then the cook ing began in earnest, and Ben beat tho eggs ami I stirred batter and kneaded dough till my head grew dizzy. At last the evening of the Important day arrived, and leaving the culinary department for an hour or two in care of Melinda Jones, Ben and 1 arrayed in our best bib arid tucker, stood at the hall door to receive our guests, Ben holding a tablet on which he kept tally of each arrival. "Sixty-live guests and thirty-one parcels,"sighed Ben, as the clock tolled off the stroke of eight. "Suke, what do you 'spose is in all those queer looking littTe wads which they have been piling up on the parlor table?" "Precious goods in small parcels," whispered I, "but I haven't heard any deposits on the bark porch." "No," answered Ben, "they have all coure straight in from the front gate to the hall door, and tho presents, what ever they are, are in that eonglomera. tion on the table. I most begin to wish that we had not celebrated it." Just then Melinda poked her head in at the opposite door, and gave me a significant w rik, and I hurried into the kitchen to find that her youngest hopeful hpd managed to push tho cover off the ice-cream, and had filled the vessel containing it to overflow ing by thrusting into it young Fletcher Big bee's new ulster, which the meddle some cherub had managed to pull down from the clothes rack in the hall. Of course Meluula was almost in hysteries, and I had to smother inv own regrets to comfort her, while <ieorge Washington washed out the coat and hung it behind the stove to dry. Then I had to extract Ben from the sitting-room and explain the mis. I hap to him. which was a sore disap pointment, for he had prided himself 1 no little on the preparation of that ice- I cream. The next mishap was the breaking down of the parlor sofa, then young Primrose Fleiuming eaughl his feet in Miss Tulip >pringer's train, anil fell forward into the dressing-ease glass and shivered it to atoms. I Miring supper J heard Mrs. Bigbee remark to Col. Fleniming that she thought it looked real little not to have ice-cream. At last the supper was over, and the cakes and goodies which were not eaten were stowed in baskets by lov ing mothers who had promised their waiting darlings that if they would !*• gixol they would bring them some. Melinda took a basket full, and Sally lirub and several others took a basket full, and even Mrs. Bigbee took a slice of jelly i ake for lor little Ti-ddy. Mipper is gone the guests are gone Ib-n and I stand face to face for a moment; 1 know that I look tired, for 1 feel so. Ben looks gltiiu, arid silently j we turn and fall to exan ningour pres- j ents. Suminan cheap walking-sticks; seven wooden tobacco-pi pes; three , bootjacks; one carved cigar IMIX, var- j nished; four rolling-pins; fixe potato mashers; one bunch tooth-picks, and j the balance In butter-paddle*, or ladles i if you prefer the name. "■suke," in a hollow mournful tone, "I am tired, aw ful tired." "So am I." "I am almost sick, too." "So am I." "And I am- disappointed," "So am not I." I was just opening my lips to say "I tohl you so," but he looked -o doleful I . resolutely <l..scd them again, and si lently we laid us down to upend the small hours lietween us and day in fit- ; ful slumlier If Ben and I should liv e to see our diamond wedding we w ill never celebrate another St. /eon'* Mwjiiziw. Jlore Sew 1 ses for Cotton, It is said it has been demonstrated ' that fire and water-proof houses can lie built out of cotton and straw. The cotton uses I is the refuse of the planta tions and factories, and when grounded up in almutan equal amount of straw and asliestors, is converted into a paste, and sulmequently into large slali* or bricks, which liecoine as hard as stone. The article thus made is pronounced the best of architectural material and will le much used. A Boston rope-maker of long experience, like the father l>efore him. says that i cotton rope can lie made for fifty per cent less than hemp, and is preferable for all shipping uses, cables, bolt, rojie halliards, tow ropes, hawsers, tackle I and falls, hoisting, etc. He also says • hat cotton is superior to hemp for ealking. and believe* that, it ran lie used for roofing and as a sutsditute for leather and hose in leather and lielt ing, and for tubing to inclose tele graph and telephone wires, lioth over head and under ground. He states that one hundred and fifty tons of hemp rope is made in the I'nlted States dally, the material for which is mostly Imported. Congress has au thorized the secretary of the navy to introduce cotton cordage Into the naval service of the I'nlted States, to such an extent as will fully test Its value and efficiency as nanpared with the kinds now In use. I K I'LIRHUS U!l|!l, t Hot* lit* Korth of ih> Inlim niatM 4 Mine to he rhmm I'he motto which figure* upon the seal of the I nited states, "K J'iuribti* I nuiii" "from many, one," has lieen ' universally admired. Nothing could ■ he happier. It is not known who suggested it. nor is it quite certain who originally coin|M>sed it. In July, 177G, soon after the Declaration of liidcpcudnce, <'mi gress appointed Dr. Franklin, Thomas Jefferson anil John Adams, a commit tee to devise a seal for the infant re public. Kaeh member offered a sug gestlon. Dr. Franklin proposed: "Moses lift ing up his wand and dividing tlie Itisl sea, with I'harioli in his chariot ovi-r -wiielmed by the waters," and the motto "Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to tbsi." Mr. Jefferson offered: "Tho Children of Israel, I**l by tin; pillar and the cloud," and on the other side, "figures of the Savon chiefs, ilengist and llor sa." Mr. Ad. mis proposed: "Hercules resting on ins club, with Virtue urging him to climb a rugged mountain, and sloth alluring him into ttie tlowery paths of self-indulgcrice." After considering the matter for si* weeks, the committee reported a design more elaborate than either of those suggested, containing -wimething uiii bleuiatic of each of the nations by which America had been peopled. For Kngland, a rose; for Ireland, a harp: for Scotland, a thistle; for France, a lletir-de-lis; for t ierm.itiy. a bla' k eagle for the Netherlands, a lion. There were many other devices, most of which Congress rejected. <n<* thing only of the committee's rej<ort was ac cepted and retuined unaltered in the linal seal, namely, the exquisitely ap propriate motto, "K I'luribus I'nurn." Which member of tcommittee thought of it. has not la-en discovered; but we can give a pretty good Yankee guess of how it came to be thought of- Probably every metnle-r of the commit* tee w ;ls in the habit of reading the chief |>eriodical of that day. "The lien tleman's Magazine," f>r which Dr. Johnson wrote the reports of the de bates in Parliament. Now. that famed |<criodieal had u|*on its title page, for forty-live years, the device of a hand grasping a bom h of (lowers, with the motto, "K I'luribus I num." The difficult question remains: How did the founder of "The (ienlleman's I Magazine" get the phrase ' Did he j eollljlose it himself ' I lot he find It in some Latin |"-t ' We <av |H*t. for a reason which sehoollioys will rei agnize at once. as the two words form a dac tyl and a sjvondee, the two poetic feet which end he*ainetern. such as \ irgi' us-4. If we turn to a complete edition of j the works of Virgil, we find among his shorter, miscellaneous poem*. one en titleil "Morelum." which is the name of a kiml of salad made of manv herbs and vegetables cotnbinssl with cheese a dish in great request among the Ital ian farmers in Virgil's time The poet describes the composition of tin- dainty dish, and he pictures* the peasant at day-dawn, swiftl* stirring the many-hued ingr**lierits. until a 1 last lor if the compound la-comes "from many one." 'l D'A- o> ill |i mm !* t%' in tirtgti .A * ir* |M|w>rfurtt r.'or # |*itiribu ona Here we have the very phrase. ex* cet t tiiat uniitu is of necessity unus. to agree with color. And this is all we know at present alemt "K I'luribus I 'niim " (Mil tost owes in fores- The primitive sacks loth, it would appear, is still the mourning raiment of thet'oreans. During a visit paid by tlie squadron under tne command of Admiral Willes, in Neptemlwr last, to |erts on the cast coast of t'orea, the officials were wearing "grayish hempen garments," which in that country de note mourning, and the admiral was informed that the whole nation had gone into mourning a year for the queen, who hail died in consequence of the shock to her feeling* caused by the proceeding* of the rioters at Seoul In the matter of dress generally the Coreans are favorably spoken of. near ly every one lieing decently dressed; and a real well-dressed Corean, in his broad bat and white roliea, is said to have an eminently respectable and well to-do appearance. Their towns, how-- ; ever, offer a distinct contrast, sanitary silence lieing little understood, and architecture not having got beyond a rudimentary stage; but in one respect they seein to lie ahead of the west. The smoke from the fires in the kitchen f made to pass in (lues underneath the rest of the house, and although the chimney is projected In an incongru ous way into the streets, the whole building is comfortably warmed by a limited expenditure of fuel.— Celmt-'ul Kmpirt, Shanghai. SCIENTIFIC MCBAPM. I ■ 1 Tho average elevation of North Car. olina Is G-K) feet above the sea level. 11 M. Vignler believes that animals are i indebted for tho powers of direction I which tliey sometimes manifest so strikingly to the possession of a mag netic sense relating to the forces that govern both the direction and the in clination of tlie needle, the scat of which lie locates in the semicircular t canals of tlie internal ear. Among the Russian geologists the belief appeurs to lie settled that granitic rocks, once thought to be of igneous and eruptive origin, are really of aqueous formation. The granites of the rapids of the Dnieper, when closely examined, show stratification, and under tiie microscope they are seen to contain dr >ps of brown water. Drs. Nitherwood and I lan lan have expressed the ln-li*-l that excessive mental work produce, .* rapid decay of the teeth. As an explanation of the alleged fact, another writer suggest* that the over worked brain steals all the phosphates and leaves none for the teeth, or else that too much study causes tlie general health to. teriorate. It seems that some luminous animals ' iwe their peculiar light-giving function l< a kind of a fat which they secrete \\ hen tliesc little creatures are at rest they do not shine at all, hut if they are •\cited a lightning-like Mash is sent forth. I'rof. I'adziszcw sky manageii b separate some of this fat and exam ined it. It is a thick, pale, neutral liquid. An alkali easily sajioiiilies it. When it wax shaken with a little aiistir pitash it gave a (lash of ligiit much the same as that which come* from the animals. ( incinnati's Nickname. The nil knauie of I'orkopolis is of Lngiish origin, and was the brilliant inspiration of a Hjvinsor wlio never saw Cincinnati. In tin- \ear 1-2". tlu-re floiin-dicd in the (Jlit-cri city a gentleman named .bin*-, lb- was the president of the I nited Mates bram h bunk, and w as locally known a> "Rank lone, ." The |ork trade had already taken such pro|x>rtions as to rouse ilie financial enthusiasm of • Rank Jones," and in a succession of letters he lilat**d upon the pr ■sjx-ritv of tlie |>rk prosjiei ts of ttie (jueen < its. The l-t -tcrs Were addresMs] to tlie I,ivT|H>ol correspond<-nt of the ( in. innati bank, and that gentleman's imagtnation at length Ihhiii e fired b\ Rank Jones' enthusiasm. In a moment of wild generosity he hied him to the studio of some Liverpudlian Tlmrw ahlsen, and •rderi-d the construction of what is s-t down in the annal* a* "a unique pair of mode! hog*." 'l'D* ,• nohle effi gies were made of papier mache. and were sent out to Cincinnati as a pres ent, *c, nupanieti by the insciption ItWe<| n part at least to Iwcome fa mous— * To Mr (sirge W. Jon*-* as the worthy representative of I'orkopo* lis." The hogs have still a local habi tat ion and a name. They add to the hurden of life in the office of one *d the largest "slaughterers" of t iri-uin.it i has mg passed bv mlieritanee from Rank Jones down, from hand to hand, anmng the p.r* aonari ha of I'orkopo lis. for riigh iije>n ii.ilf a century, '/.iryer'i M<IJ < ."UE. Hand*. Hand* are divid.si int. three difli. rent kinds : those with round jmint**! fingers, those with square tips and those that are spade *hap*<*l. witti pods of flesh at each side of the nail. The first type with round-pointed fingers —belong to characters with jercep tions extra sensitive, to very pious people, to contemplative minds, to the impulsive, and to all (met* and artists who have ideally as a prominent trait. The square-shaped teflong to scientific people, sensible, self-contained charac ters. and to the class of profiwsional men who are neither visionary nor al together sordid. Tlie spade-shaped tyjie, with pods of flesh at the side of the nail, indicate people whose inter ests and instinct* are mostly material. Koch finger, no matter what kind of a hand it is joined to, has a joint repre. srnting each ef those tv|w*. The dlvl- ! sion of the finger that is neared the i palm stands for the Is sly, the middle division represents mind, ami tlie high, est joint spirit or soul. If the top joint is longer than the others it de notes a character weakened with a too abundant imagination, great kieality and a leaning toward the theoretical rather than the practical. When the middle joint of the linger ia long, it promises a logical mind, and when the lowest joint is longest, it indicates a nature that clings more to the luxur ies than to the refinements of life. If they are nearly alike, it indicates a well-balanced wind, especially if the I length of tlie fingers equals the length I of the paltn. New fork Tenement fD>o*es. The sanitary Inspection of the over* ' crowded tenement houses, says a New Vork letter, is disclosing a condition of things that may well make even a New 1 ! Yorker, familiar as lie may Is- with ' j those human hives, stand aghast, and I ask, Are we not after all hut half civil. " | iz.ed? For instance, one house in I Mulberry street is reported as contain ing 171 occupants, thirty-nix of whom are children; in many of the rooms persons were found stretched out on ■ the floor, without bed or le-dding. ■ ! These were for the most part Italians. > Another Mulberry street rookery eon. tains 11J apartments, occupied by 122 persons; a third, fifty-eight apartments, occupied by 112 jH-rsons; a fourth has thirty-eight rooms, occupied by 1• P 1 ; persons; a fifth, thirty-eight rooms, oe* | copied by eighty persons, and in the j rear, hedged in from light and air, is a rear building occupied by forty seven persons. Down in Cherry and Water streets there are some tenement h under the roof of which may be found rep resent at iv*-s of almost all the nation alities of Christendom, and some out sideof Christendom Chinese, Italians, j Spaniards, French, Portuguese, N an | dinaviaris, Irish, Hermans, and here and then* an African. In Raxtcr street there are places where more than GOO of the jx-ople are huddled to getliiT, in utter defiance of tlie laws of health. The Insjiectors appear to think it a miracle that a pestilence has J not broken out in these dens long D fore this, and as for trying to improve their condition, the tiling, we are told, would seem to la- out of tie- question. 'l'he ofilv remedy is to stop building bouses of this description, and this can | only la- accomplished by stringent ! legislation, to wiii.li, of ■ iiirm-, the 1 owners of all riicli projs-rty are reso. lately opjxined. The public health ill sueli eases. liowever, should Ik.- sii|-rior tu all ■ iiisiib-ratioii s..f pr- -nil or pr: v ate interest An Elephant's Revenge. tine of those jw-sts of society, a "practical joker." visited a caravan in an Knglish fair, and tried liis stupid trick upon an elephant there. ID-first doled out to it. one bv one, some gin gi-rbre.vl nuts; and. when the gr.t*-ful animal was thrown off its guard, he suddenly proffered it a large parcel wrapped in brown paja-r. The unsus picious creature accept**] arid swallow i*l the lump, but iinin<*liately le-gan to i exhibit sign* of intense suffering and snatching up a bucket han<b*l it to the ki-cjM-r for water. This having l-e*-n given to it. it eagerly swallowed quan tities of the fluid. "Ha"'irn*l the delight**! joker, "I guess those nut* were a trifle hot, old j fellow." "You had l>ettor is- off," exclaimed tlie ke'per. "unl*-*s vou wish tlie buck et at your head." The fool took the hint only just in | time, for tlie enraged animal, having finished the sixfh bucketful, hurled the bucket after if* tormentor with such I force that, had he lingered a moment more, his life might have l* n forfeit ed. The affair was not. however, yet concluded. The following year the show revisited the same town, and tlie foolish joker, like men of his genus unable to profit by ••xjx-rience, thought to repeat hi* stupid trick njH>n the ele phant. ID- took two lot* of nut* into the show with him sweet nuts in one pocket and hot one* in the other. Th elephant had not forgotten the jest played upon him, and therefore a<-cept the cake* very cautiously. At last the joker proffer**l a hot one; but no soon" I T bail the injured creature discovered its pungency than it seized hold of it* persecutor by the coat tail*, hoisted him up by them, and held him until they gave way, when he fell to the ground. The elephant now inspected the severed coat tails, which, after lit hail discovered and eaten all the sweet nuts, he tore into rags and flung after : tlipir discomfited owner. Comparative Digestibility of Meats. Dr. Learned places meats in three classes—l. Those easy of digi-stion. 2. Those moderately easy of digestion. .3. Those difficult of digestion. In the i first class, or those easy of digestion, we find mutton, venison, sweetbread. ! chicken, rabbit, partridge, pheasant, grouse, white, smelt, turbot and sole. In the second class, or those moderate, ly easy of digestion, beef, lamb, hare, pigeon, turkey, guinea ami pea fowl, duck, wild water fowl, blackcock, woodcock, snipe, cod. haddock, flound er, pike, trout and raw oysters. In the third class, or those difficult of di gestion. pork, veal, goose, the liver, heart, kldneyjthe brains of animals, salt meats, sausage, mackerel, eel, sal mon, herring, sprat, skate, sturgeon, salted fish in general, lobster, crab, prawns, shrimps, crayfish, mussvda, j cockles, scollops and cooked oyster*. f'Hlf.DßK*** COLI'MK. A Hnra i.lfi In the/ear 17M1. while Clinton and Washington were watching each Mher'a movement* near New York, general Kchiiyler, having resigned hi* command on account of unjuitt charge* math- against him, wa* iitayirig at hi* house, whieh then xt/s/d alone ustxide j the ntockade or w all of Albany. The Ilritish commander, therefore, seeing his opportunity, writ out John Walter .Meyer, with a party of Tories and In dians, to capture Gen. Schuyler. When they arrived at the out*kirx , of the city they P-.irned frmu a Dutch lul/orrr tliat the general's house wait guarded hy six soldiers. The Dutch man, the minute the band was out of sight, took to his legs and warned the general of their approach. Soon after a servant announced that 'here was a strange man at the back door who wished to see the general. S'huyler, understanding the trap, gathered his family in one of the upper rooms, and giving orders that the door* and windows be barred, fired a pistol from one of the tojestory windows to alarm the neighliorhood. The guards, who ha/1 U-<n lounging in the shade ot a tree, started to their feet at the sound of the pistol; hut alas, too l.it-! for they found themselves surrounded by a < rowd of dusky fig* lire-, vv ho bound them hand and foot before they had time to re-i-t. Arid now you can imagine the little group collected in tliat dark room up stair"; tie- sturdy general standing re solutely at the door, with his gun in his hand, and his black sl.tvi-s gather-l Hrouiid him, each with v/nie weapon; and at the other end of the room, the women huddled together, sonic weep ing, some pray :ng. Suddenly a crash is heard which ciiills the very hi-id and brings \ividly to each one's min i the tales of Indian massacres v> corn, rnon at that day. The band had broken in at one of tie- window*. At that moment .Mrs. >chuyier t springing to her ff-t, rushed toward tlie dK<r for she remembered that tiie baby, only ; few months old. hav.rig been forgotten iri the hurry of the flight, w;ts asleep in its ' radle on the tirst rt'sir. Ilut the gen< r d.< at- hing iier in Ins .inns, told her that h r life was of more value than the child's, and that, if any one um-t go, he would. Wh.!e, however, this generous struggle was g ng on. tie ir third daughter, gliding pa-4 them, was v.,*, a' tin -i'b* of the cradle. All vv a- black as night in the hall, except for a small patch ~f light ust at the foot of the stairs. This came from the dining-room, where the In dians could b<- s/s-n pillaging the shelves, pulling down the china, and •juarrelling with one another over tlieir ill-g"tten booty. How to get past this sjwit was the question. but the girl did not hesitate, .•she rrachedthc cradle unobserved. and was just darting back with her pre. (ious burden when, by ill luck, one of the savages happened to see her- Whir ! went Ids -harp tomahawk with in a few inrlms of the halo's head, and cleaving an edge of the brave girl's dress, stuck deep into the stair-rail Just then one of the Tories, seeing her Hit by, and supposing iter to lie a servant, called after her. "Wench, wench; where is your master >h, stopping for a moment, called bark. " Gone to alarm the town'" and. hur rying on. was safe again with iter father upstairs. And now. v ery nearly all the plun der liaving le-cn secured, the band was alsiiit to jiroc/s-d with the real object of the expedition, when the general, raising one of the upper windows, called out in lusty tones, as if com manding a large body of men: "Come on. my brave fellows 1 Surround •he house! Secure the v illains who are plundering !*' The cowards knew* that voire, and they each and every one of them took to the wood* a* fast as their legs could carry ! them, leaving the general in possession of the field. The old Schuyler house looks now as it looked then, except that the back w ing for the slaves has been torn dow n, and some few alterations have been made around the place; but when yoa are shown the house, you ran still s<w the dent In the stair-rail made by that Indian's hatchet more than a hundrixf years ago.— St. Nicholas. Kadi head of clover contains about sixty distinct flower tubes, each of which contains a portion of sugar not exceeding the flve-hundredth part of a grain. The probocU of the bee there fore must lie inserted into 500 clover tubes before one grain of sugar ran lw j obtained. There are 7,<KX) grains in a ; pound, and as honey contains three* j fourths of ife weight of dry sugar, each j pound of honey represents 2,500,000 1 clover '.ubes sucked bv bee* I