. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 142 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. May Wouldn't Trust the Angel Gabriel. Mrs. Sarah T. Korcr of ciiJinary fame declfires that she ?svill touch the meat of no fowl that she has not seen prepared and cleaned herself ''Why, when I had typhoid fever some years ago," she says, "and the doctor ordered me to take chick- en broth, I replied, Very well, doctor, but 1 shan't take it if any one other than myself cleans the chicken.' Seeing that I was firm, he at length said that the cleaning might be done right by my bed- side. And so it was, and I lived
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 142 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. May Wouldn't Trust the Angel Gabriel. Mrs. Sarah T. Korcr of ciiJinary fame declfires that she ?svill touch the meat of no fowl that she has not seen prepared and cleaned herself ''Why, when I had typhoid fever some years ago," she says, "and the doctor ordered me to take chick- en broth, I replied, Very well, doctor, but 1 shan't take it if any one other than myself cleans the chicken.' Seeing that I was firm, he at length said that the cleaning might be done right by my bed- side. And so it was, and I lived on chicken broth for seven weeks. For 49 mornings was the fowl brought to my bedside and carefully cleaue;! by my maid under my direct and personal supervision. There's not one person in a thousand who knows how to clean a chicken anyway, and for my part I would not trust the angel Ga- briel in such particular work. "—Philadel- phia Times. A Story of Mendelssolm. It is related of Mendelssohn at a public dinner, at which ladies were present, and where he was surrounded by a chorus of aggressive women clamoring for his auto- graph, that he allowed himself to be vic- timized with good nature until finally a fleshy matron of mature years handed him her card. Whether with malice prepense or not, it is not stated, but the composer wrote upon the card the music and words from Haydn's "; "And God created great ; This brought the autograph hunting to an end, and Men- ileJssohn was allowed co go on with his iliuner.—San Francisco Argonaut. In the Wrong Office. Caller—We are very rich, and we wish to marry our daughter to a count, a mar- quis or a duke. Clerk (with dignity)—You are in the wrong office. This is a matrimonial agency You will find the International Purchasing agency two doors to the left. —New York Weekly. According to Pliny, the Roman wheat had wi<'' 1' 0 trains each. Cochifuato. Mass., was named from Ar. Indian w
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