I never knu a bee hunter but what waz a good whissler, and i dont kno ov enny bizzness on the breast ov the earth that will make a man so lazy and useless, without acktually killing him, az hunting bees in the wilderness. Hunting bees and writing seckond rate verses are evidences ov sum genius, but either of them will unfit a man for doing a good square day’s work. HOTELS. Hotels are houses ov refuge, homes for the vagrants, the married man’s retreat, and the bachelor’s fireside. They are kept in all sorts ov ways, sum on the European plan, and menny ov them on no plan at all. A good landlord iz like a good stepmother, he knows hiz bizzness and means to do hiz duty. He knows how to rub hiz hands with joy when the traveler draws nigh, he knows how to smile, he knew yure wife’s father when he waz living, and yure wife’s fust husband, but he don’t speak about him. He kan tell whether it will rain to-morrow or not, he hears yure komplaints with a tear in hiz eye, he blows up the servants at yure suggestion, and stands around reddy, with a shirt collar az stiff az broken china. A man may be a good supream court judge and at the same time be a miserable landlord. Most evrybody thinks they kan keep a hotel (and they kan), but this ackounts for the grate number ov hotels that are kept on the same principle that a justiss ov the peace offiss iz kept in the country during a six-days’ jury trial for killing sumboddy’s yello dorg. A hotel wont keep itself and keep the landlord too, and ever kure a traveler from the habit ov profane swareing. I hav had this experiment tried on me several times, and it alwus makes the swares, wuss. It iz too often the kase that landlords go into the bizzness ov hash az ministers go into the professhun, with the very best ov motives, but the poorest kind ov prospecks. I dont know ov enny bizzness more flattersum than the tavern bizzness, there dont seem to be ennything to do but to stand in front ov the register with a pen behind the ear and see that the guests enter themselfs az soon az they enter the house, then yank a bell-rope six or seven times, and then tell John to sho the gentleman to 976, and then take four dollars and fifty cents next morning from the poor devil ov a traveler and let him went. This seems to be the whole thing (and it iz the whole thing) in most cases. * * * * * Yu will diskover the following deskripshun a mild one, ov about 9 hotels out ov 10 between the Atlantik and Pacifick Oshuns akrost the United States in a straight line: Yure room iz 13 foot 6 inches, by 9 foot 7 inches, parallelogramly. It being court week (az usual), all the good rooms are employed bi the lawyers and judges. Yure room iz on the uttermost floor. The carpet iz ingrain--ingrained with the dust, kerosene ile, and ink-spots ov four generashuns. Thare iz two pegs in the room tew hitch coats onto, one ov them broke oph, and the other pulled out, and missing.