Young Folks

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 25, 16 September 1893, Page 10

Young Folks

HOW A USEFUL INVENTION originated. Many inventions have originated in a hint accidentally given to some man with brains enough to carry out the suggestion. The following is an illustration of this fact. Major Von Hruschka, a German bee-keeper living in Italy, was one day in his apiary with his son. The boy carried a tin pail which had a string tied to it. The major put a piece of honeycomb into the tin pail and gave it to the boy, who began to swing the pail with the honey in it round and round in a circle, holding it by a string. A moment after he had ceased this amusement the major happened to look again at the piece of honeycomb. What was his surprise to find that the honey was all drained out neatly and perfectly from that side of the comb which had been on the outside of the circle as the boy swung the pail around by the string. The major thoughtfully turned the comb over and bade the boy swing again. This time the other side of the comb was all drained out, and that night Major Von Hruschka went to bed thinking. He thought and thought and experimented till he gave bee-keepers the honey-extractor which whirls the honey but of the comb by centrifugal force, leaving the comb to be filled again by the bees, and the liquid honey, clean, pure, and beautiful, to be eaten by the people