As there is considerable rivalry among inventors about patent hives, and divers contrivances are recommended to bee-keepers as the _ne plus ultra_ of perfection, I will state that some years ago I invented a side-opening leaf hive, with a sliding bottom board. Either front or rear side is a door, through which the bottom board slides. At the opposite end of the hive from the door, in the side of the hive, is a frame or yoke, fastened to the sides of the bottom-board and reaching half way up the side of the hive. On top of said yoke are clasps fastened loosely to the yoke with wire rivets. These clasps hold the frames by means of wire hooks driven into the frames and hooking over a shoulder on top of the clasps. The clasps move sideways, and allow the frames to be moved sideways, like the leaves of a book, and also to be taken off. The part of the hive with a hook in, has a piece of wire driven in at the bottom, to serve as a pivot, and works in a gimlet hole in the bottom board. In operating with the bees in, the door is opened and the fastenings made by the bees are to be cut loose; then the bottom board with the frames is drawn out of the hive. It is perhaps as good a side-opening hive as any, with the additional good quality that there is no patent on it. Any one is at liberty to use the invention. For myself, I prefer top opening hives, as more convenient.--S. LUETHI. * * * * * [For the American Bee Journal.] Death of James T. Langstroth. MR. EDITOR:--I desire to offer, through the medium of the American Bee Journal, a slight tribute of respect to the memory of JAMES T. LANGSTROTH, the only son of Rev. L. L. Langstroth, whose death was announced in the July number of the Journal.