| Show fact about bees air C U of canton mass to alic journal of education boroo highly facts about tho bac obtained by ions and patient observation following anro extracts from his letter bees largo and small never alight on the top of tho iris but always in abo same place between one of tho winged styles and one of tho celab I 1 havo watched hundreds of them I 1 havo never seen an exception soon after alighting they forca bodies down as far as ihly possibly can into the very narrow space where tho petal and stylo aro very close together breaking tho pollen from tho anthers above them and in this place flioy extract tho honey I 1 have seen them do this on abo iris of tho garden and on alio iris and tho ins of tho meadows and tho process is tho sime a aco alighting on ono of alie irises in my hand sir thinks that thu office performed by tho aco in making productive is to brush alio pollen from iho anthers and convoy it on its body directly into the ovary which it pierces lie thus upsets a well known popular fancy tharo is popular delusion about bees and eliat is that a beeline bee line is a straight one let tho following observation bo considered tho hundreds of bees in tho meadows seeking honey of the iris ind going away laden with it go in a saries of delicately curved lines and not in straight in tho woods and fields their course is just the same silting or reclining on a favorite knoll bees arc continually conti nully allying about I 1 have seen them day alter day at tho rate of six or eight every minute make a number of circles largo and small about my head and then lly off groat rapidity not in lines for any considerably sider ably distance and aliis too where thero was plenty of room for them to lly II 11 great distance in straight lines with obstructions from sido to sido in a kind of zigzag motion of curved lines agibin passing along alio street there is a great buzzing in alic trees near by it is a swarm of bac s they aro directly and I 1 stop and watch lliam millions in it they too alj a long distance within sight not in straight stia ight lines but in curves majestic curves many of them lly swiftly from ono side of the swarm to the oilier but always in curves perhaps hey arc alic mounted may explain their liko motion bill it does not explain why alic chulo swarm moves alius buco boroi near iho last day of abo aerni a acu bics into the schoolroom school room daring its flight across alic room perhaps twenty live or thirty feet it changes its comiso four or five times alights on a windowpane window pane several ineffectual attempts to climb ua surface a rose on a neighboring desk is on it in nn instant in stint curves again is unceremoniously thrust to iho bloor by alio young lidy owning the rose and then in another instant makes a beeline bee line eliat is such a line curves here too as a bee makes for tho open window and is off from these observations a bac lino is not a mathematically straight one any more than court or some of the older streets of boston as they originally existed were straight any more than cow paths aro straight or iho path of a squirrel climbing a tree to avoid alio itono stono the small boy is pretty apt to lenow at him there was a hog car in the middle of a passenger tram in acoria lately alie father instructed the youngsters liow to rush quickly for alic car as soon as the gate was open and each ono of them avo turn over alic back of a scat so as to secure four sails on alie shady side this they did and when iho whole baily of ten including nuro and baby got in they spread themselves ocr the whole six scabs scats on thai side of the car except tho end benches no one else could get a scat on that side without an ugly dispute both parents and children thu father and mother had four scabs scats two of them being for their traps and their wraps and for their duct two had four scabs scats for themselves and their bird cages and bolcs i grownup son and a young aidy daughter had four scabs scats the burso and baby had four und so it went through alio family A chicago man says 1 I ran for once ahoi I 1 ans young and foolish 1 got anil am glad of it id rather be a yellow hound and bay n moon made of green chreso than submit myself again to alio moral crucifixion button holing lying sneaking double dealing back biting whispering conniving rotgut rot gut swilling hand shak ing foul jakc friendship and barefaced bare faced tant mint brasill every man that runs for an fil filicky icly nid to be in aliu gift of tho people in any great cily in the gift of aliu devil would bit nearer the mark hope b the last thing that dies in i man aud though it bo ay iy deceitful yd it is ol 01 tins good aisil to ii that whilo we aro traveling through life it conducts us in an aind more pleasant way to our journeys cud |
