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Show SELECTED. HOW TO GET STUNG HOW HOT. How often we hear such exclamations exclama-tions as the following: "I would like very much to keep bees, if it was not for their stinging me so;"or,"if I could go around the bees and handle them as you do, I would keep bees; but they would sting vie to death!" etc. Now, friend, allow me to ak you, how many times you have been stung to death? Who preached the funeral sermon? "Where were you buried? etc. For we like to know all the par-: ticulars. Is it not a fact that bees will not sting you any sooner than they will me, providing you conduct yourseli , properly when around them? Allow me to give you some instructions instruc-tions about this matter. If you want to get stung when around the bees, commence quick, energetic and active motions, and as soon as you have succeeded suc-ceeded in attracting their altention sufficiently suf-ficiently to suit, then commenue parrying parry-ing rapidly with your hands, .and in the meantime throw your face up and backward, and if you do not succeed in getting stung "to your heart's content, con-tent, thca my name is not Gallup. On tho other hand, if you do not wish to get stung let your motions be rattier slow aod steady, and if a stray bee comes buzzing about, keep still, or walk away slowly, and in the meantime mean-time keep the head inclined lbrward, with the face down, and allow no parrying par-rying and thrusting or striking with the bands; and they certainly will not sting you any sooner than they will ma. " ,: Providing you do get stung by a stray bee, wash off the poisonous scent immediately, as nothing irritates them equal to the scent of their poison. ; Place a little of this poisonous scent 1 on the end of a stick, and hold the I stick to the entrance of any hive, and see them show fight immediately. I could give more on- this subject, but perhaps have said enough at present. pres-ent. E. Gallup, in National Bee Journal. BRIDGING THE HUDSON. The Board of Directors of the Hudson Hud-son Highland Suspension Bridge Company, Com-pany, after long deliberation, Lave decided the plans for a colossal and elegant structure, which will be built without unnecessary delay. It is expected tbatcontracts for the."eriul and work will be given out biMore the end of this month, and work v;iil be commenced early in June. The'ioard of Engineers, consisting of Hon. Horatio Allen, Major Generals R W. tjerrell, George B. ' McClellan and other gentlemen selected the location, which is 1'rom Fort-Clinton the western side of thf JoUu jxivc, nve nil? jioiT.iv-nf West Point, acfi?5s" to ! ol. Anthony's Nose on the easterii.sido, four miles above Peokskill and forty-'. forty-'. three miles- from New York. There : will be but one clear span extending across the river. its length will be 1,600 feet. The length of the bndge between the towers will be 1,666 feet, and the total length, including approaches, ap-proaches, will be 2,449- feeL Its elevation eleva-tion above high watermark is to hi 155 feet. Its sale bearing capacity f": mi'- TaTt trains is to Ije""2,400 CunsHV highways, 2,880 tons, and it will require re-quire 25,171 tons to break it. There will be twenty cables in four systems, i each cable to be of fourteen inches in j diameter. These cables will contain 371,195,750 feet, or about 70,302 miles of steel wire. The total weight of iron and steel will be 17,000 tons, and the suspended weight 9,651 tons. The height of the tower above the water level will be 280 feet. There will be 58,084 cubic yards of masonry in the abutments and towers. Four towers two on each side of immense strength will hold the upper and main cables. A vast saving will be made in the mason ma-son work on account of the solid rock in the mountain ranges on either side, in which the large cables will bo firmly rooted. There will be two stories to this bridge, tbe-upper one to bo used for trains and the lower one for highway high-way use. The width will be forty feet. A train of sixty heavy locomotives and 35,000 persons can safely pass over. This location is at the narrowest point of tho Hudson river, between New ' York city and Albany, and makes a direot connection between the metropolis metrop-olis and every railroad in the United States. Omaha Republican. WHY THE MARQUIS OF BUTE HAS NEVER BEEN PRESENTED TO QUEEN VICTORIA. The CathoHo hero of "Lothair," the young Marquis of Bute, although admitted ad-mitted to be the greatest "catch," matrimonially speaking, in Great Britain, Brit-ain, and one of the largest land-owners in the realm, has never made his respects re-spects to the Queen at court. This singular circumstance is now accounted for by the Court Journal, which states that the young Marquis promised his mother on her death-bed never to permit per-mit himself to be presented to Queen Victoria. The reason of this eitraor- dinary promise, which the Marquis has religiously kept, is to be found in the implacable hostility of the Marcboincss to the Queen. The late Marchomess of Bute was the sister of Lady Flora Hastings, the young and beautiful maid of honor, whom Queen Viotoria, then a girl of eighteen, suffered soon after her accession to tho throne to be driven from her presence, and bunted to death by slanders long since disproved. dis-proved. The cold and cruel conduot of the young sovereign at that time the family of the victim have never forgotten for-gotten or forgiven. When the Queen some years ago visited Rothesay Bay in her yacht, and lay for several days in sight of the superb residence of the Marchoiness of Bute, Mount Stuart House, tho Marchioness not only refrained re-frained from attempting to pay her court to the Queen, but actually ordered or-dered all the blinds of the windows in Mount Stuart House to be kept closed so long as the royal yacht lay within sight of them. Time has not softened in the son the bitter sense of injustice which hardened the mother's heart It is even said that horror at the notion no-tion of being obliged to consider Queen Victoria the bead of his church plays no small part in inducing the Marquis of Bute to abandon that church for the communion of Rome. Ex. |