Show DADS LETTER from london by JAMES 11 II WALUS WALLIS director or of publicity european missions roses rosas are still booming blooming in erent parts or of england here is the latest legend of the bees sting eting it yon tori la ha a v vent e n I 1 t headd it before A bee be having baving stored up a good supply ot of honey in its comb flew ra X away to blount olympus with a part of it as an offering to the gods jupiter was all W delighted with R the tha gift and ahe ae J promised to do for the bee what james H Wallis Walli Sever 01 she might ask 0 a mighty jupiter said the bee give me a sting so that when 8 anyone approaches to take my honey I 1 can defend it and kill him on oil the spot such a brutal request angered jupiter who said sternly your prayer shall be granted but not in the way you expect you shall have a sting and when anyone comes to take your honey boney you shall attack him and the still sting as you wish prove fatal but it shall not be the person stung who shall die it shall be yourself from that time to this when a a bee stings anyone the victim quickly brushes off the bee before she can extract her sting and so this gets left in the flesh when it is torn away it takes part of 0 the bees organs with it so go that she dies an old proverb says that ho hi who praxes tor for hurt upon his neighbor Is begging a curse upon himself considerable commotion is being caused among smokers as the result of the evidence being given at the inquest given or a young woman in london the deceased had been heard to declare she would take her life rather than have children and she thought the she was going to have a child so she selected nicotine the extract ex tract of tobacco and took a nine percent solution it killed her almost instantly A physician who had made a post mortem examination of the body declared there was enough of the poison in the stomach to kill several persons he testified it Is an extremely powerful pasion and one to three drops of 0 it was sufficient to kill anyone in two or three minutes I 1 rut put a very small drop into the mouth of a mouse ind and the mouth of a rat and they were both killed in a second or two I 1 find on inquiry that you can buy this material it Is very cheap it is used for smoking roses to prevent fly and it may be used as ordinary weed killer near oxford where lectures and sermons still flourish unabated there is a church whose minister la Is noted for long speaking one of the communicants has devised a method to effect a reform in this respect ile he has equipped himself with a stopwatch and goes with a shilling 25 cents ind and a sixpence six pence 12 cents to church when the sermon is over it if it has not eseed ed fifteen minutes he puts his shilling in the collection box bos it IE it lasts longer his offering is the sixpence A number of others who have heard of the tari innovation are now doing the same thing and the sermons are being timed to come under fifteen minutes |