Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1893 — HONEY IN A CHIMNEY. [ARTICLE]

HONEY IN A CHIMNEY.

It Beat* tbe Old Stories of Treasures In Bee Trees. A few days ago when Trainmaster Courtright, of the Michigan division ot the Big Four road, built a fire in his residence in Wabash, he was astonished to discover a thick stream of a strange, sticky liquid run down the stove pipe and over the floor. He cleaned it up, but it continued to flow over the floor and the railroad official made an investigation which revealed that a swarm of bees had lodged in the chimney during the hot weather, and made a large quantity ol honey, which, when the natural gas fin was lighted ran down the flue. The chimney was cleaned of its saccharin< contents and Mr. Coutright has had nc further trouble. The prestige of Chicago in one direction at least, has been lowered. At Chattanooga Judge Moon passed on seventy - nlne applications for divorce. Twenty were granted, twenty-three were dismissed, thirty-four wero continued, an< decision reserved in two.