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Show A lly llaalilfa. 1 It stems a little odd to think of domiciling bees In a great city, yet I the New York Times baa dlacovered a man who successfully attempted this. I Ills lam Is Joutel, and he la an ardent I naturalist It waa Mr. Jontel'a lots for Insect which led him to experiment In keeping an apiary on the roof of his home at East One Hundred and Seventeenth Seven-teenth street He procured a hive, stocked It, and awaited results In a short time they had combs In process of construction, and were filling them with honey Aa to whero they got this material Mr. Joutel's explanation la of considerable Interest Soon after he started his hive, he eald, ho waa In Mount Morris park some distance from his house Here he found some of hla beea hard at work on the few flowers In sight Ho made a trip to Morning-side Morning-side pirk. on the west sldo of the city, and onsen ed a few of the honey maker mak-er there Ho was turo they were from bis hire, as they wero of a peculiar variety and easily recognized Mr. Joutel believes that they also made trips to Central park, aa well as patronizing pat-ronizing all the Are-escape conservatories conserva-tories In tho neighborhood At any rate they collected a large amount ot honey, and some ot the combs bars been exhibited In the American Museum Mus-eum ot Natural History, Judas was probably a good female Impersonator. future president was a shrewd business man he accumulated there what waa considered a large fortune In those days He sent young James to Dickinson Dick-inson college, In Carlisle from which he graduated In 1815 The bouse In which Uuchannn waa born la now rebuilt re-built on Fayette street Mercersburg Uefor It wss torn down all tbe logs wers carefully numbered and when It was again erected It waa mads a facsimile fac-simile rt Its former self The houso Is a stofj and a halt high, containing two room, u I, constructed ot large roufhly bewKlogs and la twenty feat wldt on Fayetlte alreet and twenty-one feet deep aloils an alley There Is a single wlndoJv and a door In front and ont window on the alley sldt, wltb i door at tht Vear |