. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Dr. U. Kramer are the most tasteful looking houses in the world. Their factories look like large homes, and I would not assure that I did not see lace curtains in some of their windows. Another pleasant thing is the furni- ture, even in low-priced hotels. There is no " ginger-bread " about it, but it is of European walnut, and the panels nearly always correspond with each other. That comes from the method at the lumber mill of piling the boards in exactly the same order as the wood was in the tree before it was sawed. You can notice it at ev
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Dr. U. Kramer are the most tasteful looking houses in the world. Their factories look like large homes, and I would not assure that I did not see lace curtains in some of their windows. Another pleasant thing is the furni- ture, even in low-priced hotels. There is no " ginger-bread " about it, but it is of European walnut, and the panels nearly always correspond with each other. That comes from the method at the lumber mill of piling the boards in exactly the same order as the wood was in the tree before it was sawed. You can notice it at every saw-mill. So you may readily buy two boards that match exactly, because they have grown side by side and the veins are the same, and they have been kept to- gether. That would be too much trou- ble, in America, and two boards that have been parted by the saw may never get near each other again, unless some fastidious person insists on regularity and good taste and has the money to pay the extra cost. The floors are laid in lozanges, of two or three kinds of wood, even in ordinary country homes. They use stoves of earthenware, enameled in blue or green, which look like big clos- ets, with brass doors. They are very slow to heat, but preserve their heat a long time, when once warm. We went up the Rigi, as all tourists do. The weather looked dubious in the morning, but when we got half way up, the clouds disappeared and we had a magnificent view of the snow peaks, the Lakes of Lucerne, of the Four- Cantons and of Zug. Had dinner up there and good sunshine. Back by Arth-Goldau, we had an hour to visit that town which was destroyed by the landslide of the Rossberg in 1800, which buried four villages and killed 4o7 persons. The town is rebuilt on the scattered rocks, some of which are 50 feet or more in height. Human beings are like the ants and the bees, who re- pair their nest as soon as it has been. Gathering a Swarm in Zurich torn down. The danger which lurks above their head
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