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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3071, 18 December 1878, Page 4

EECtrNDITT OP THE QUEEN Beß.— Baron Berlepsch, in several different experiments to find out how many eggs are daily deposited. by the queen bee, .discovered that she "laid 1,^04 eggp in 24 hours, as the result of the first. In the second, she deposited on an average 1,913 daily for the space of 20 days.: In the third pDe, an ayerage-off 2,400 daily was foundfor the same length of time. , In the fourth, she deposited 3,021 in 24 hours. She was seen by him to< deposit six eggi in one minute. . A writer in the National Live Btock Journal states that a gentleman told him, at the Illinois State Pairi' tbat he had known a queen to deposit an average of 3,800 ■ eggs daily for several days. As to his own experience, he'had known 1,500 epgs to be deposited within the short space of fo«ar hours; : " Habit, 1' is hard to overcome: If youtalce off the first letter, it docs not change "."i bit." If you take off another, you still have a bit left. If you take off stfll another, the whole of "it" remains. If you take off another, it is'not "t" totally used up. . All of'which goes to show that if you wish to get rid of a. " habit," youniust throw it off altogether. , '^ A Stopper—"ls this the place,'* she? asked, as she wandered down on the; barren sands, "where a' youngf lady-7-.a beautiful young lady—fell into the water last season, and was rescued by a gallant. young man, whom she alterwards married ?'' He looked at her carefully, estimated her at a square forty-seven,, with false teeth, and said, ," Yes, ma'am, but I don't know how to swim." . .;