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Show WAS AN INVENTIVE GENIUS Man Devised Contrivance for Riveting Knob on Strings of Honey Bees Why It Failed. "That man once Invented a great 1 labor-saving device that he expected to ! make blm rich, but his hopes all came , to nothing." "What was it?" "It was a contrivance for riveting little knobs upon th- stingers of honey bees, thus rendering them harmless. 1 He got his idea from seeing a cow with knobs on her horns to prevent her from goring." "Why was It that his Invention didn't pan out?" That was the strange part of It You see, bees are queer things. As soon as be would get his little knob fastened upon the stingr of a bee the blamed thing would Just sit around, tapping on the floor of the hive with it Iit-fore he had completed his invention no bee had ever been able to make a noise of that kind. Well, sir, ,UI the bees that had ktmbs on their stingers Just deemed to give up their ambition h honey gatherers, and there they would lt. proudly drumming on the ! floor of the hive, hour after hour, while the bees that didn't wear knobs would hung around listening. Instead of going about their buMocaa. So be had to give It up; but I understand that he's working on a new thing which he expects to turn out much better " "What Is It?" "It s a machine for tautening fish, scales together o they can be used In stove doors in the place of Isinglass." |