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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1292, 7 March 1883, Page 2

It was mentioned the other day in the i Dunedin Police Court, as an exceptional ! circumstance, that a constable was on hand I when he was wanted. i “If you would be truly happy, my i dear,” eaid one New York lady to another “you will have neither eyes nor ears when your husband eomes home late from the club.” “Yes. I know, answered the other, wearily, “ but what am I to do with my nose ?” All bee-keepers have adopted the traditional habit of drumming on tin pans and.kettles when bees are swarming, but from some experiments which Sir John Lubbock has been making, and which were communicated some time ago to the Linmean Society, it is very doubtful if these sagacious insects hear any but the high overtones which are outside our own range of hearing. He trained some bees to come to honey placed on a musical box on his lawn, close to the window of his house, and the box was kept playing several hours a day for a fortnight. It was then, together with the honey, brought into the house and placed out of sight, but at the open window- and only about 7 yards from where it had stood before. The bees, however, failed to find thp honey, though when they had beefl taken to it they came again readily enough. From this Sir John thinks the sounds of the musical box were not beard by the bees, for it failed to guide them to whore the honey had been removed.