An Insect Curiosity Shop

Properly cousidered, a beehive is a wonderful shop, and each individual insect is a ctiriosity. The inhabitants of a hive are classed as drones, workers and queen. The queen is the motber of every insect in the hive, nnless she has been installed instead of a queen who has died and left the hive without a mistress. This queen bee is the wonder of the whole insect tribe, as far as egg laying is concerned, often depositing 4,000 egg3 a dayfor days in suceession duriug the most productive season. The chief wonder connected with the worker bee is the admiiable manner in which his body is shaped and fltted with instruments for honey gathering. These natural instruments consist of cups, combs, brushes, knives, funDels, scrapers, etc, each of which is worthy of a week of careful and painstaking study