Popular science monthly . In His Merry Dogmobile. How aCripple Gets Along in the World ALTHOUGH he is a cripple, R. of Los Angeles, has traveled,^^ nearly five thousand miles^Uliil in a single year with the aid^\SK1 ^f ^ P-l dog Trix. The dog^ Hf, is harnessed to a speci- all> built t r i cy cleeciuipped with handle-bars, headlight, tail-light and a scat sim-ilar to that used onwheel-chairs. He sells newspapersand chewing he wishes to stophe presses a leather padto a specially con- to the wheel, and thetricycle-whed chair dog stops immediatelj. 698 Popular Science Monthly
Popular science monthly . In His Merry Dogmobile. How aCripple Gets Along in the World ALTHOUGH he is a cripple, R. of Los Angeles, has traveled,^^ nearly five thousand miles^Uliil in a single year with the aid^\SK1 ^f ^ P-l dog Trix. The dog^ Hf, is harnessed to a speci- all> built t r i cy cleeciuipped with handle-bars, headlight, tail-light and a scat sim-ilar to that used onwheel-chairs. He sells newspapersand chewing he wishes to stophe presses a leather padto a specially con- to the wheel, and thetricycle-whed chair dog stops immediatelj. 698 Popular Science Monthly. The bees stinging apparatus as shown up by the microscope. It consists of a sheatliwithin which move two barbed lancets. These form a hollow tube for the poison The Honeybees Infernal Machine I\ proportion to its size, the sting ofthe honeybee is probably the mosteffective infernal machine in exist-ence. The stinging apparatus is smallerthan that of a rattlesnake, yet a singlesting has been known to kill a we realize that it is almost in-visible, and consider what it can do, wecannot fail to be astounded. It seemsthe very quintessence of devilishness. The honeybees sting is complicated—so complicated that many words andmuch ink have been in discussingits construction and use. It is generallyconceded that the sting consists of ashaft of three parts, the principal onebeing a sheath within which move twobarbed lancets. Like the barbs of a fish-hook, the lancets are not easily extractedfrom the flesh into which they havebeen driven. The sheath and the lancetscombined form
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