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Show HOLMES' COUNTRY LIFt. PltUlleld, Ilia Cqiiiitry r;4tste, W the Ileqait of An'ft"r. "I was curious to kitow nbout Dr. Holmes experience of Jountry llfo, ho knows nil nature's projessos soucll," writes Edwnnl Everett Halo In Mc-Clure's Mc-Clure's Magazine. "So ho told mo how It happened thnt ho went lo I'ittalleld. It hccuis thnt a century nnd n hnlf ago his nncestor, Jacob Wendell, had a royal grant for tho whole township there, with some small exceptions, perhaps. per-haps. Tho place wns nt first called Fontoosoc, then Wchdclltown, nnd only nttcrwanlgotthc namo of Pllts-flold Pllts-flold from Wllllnm Fltt. Ono pnrt of tho Wendell property. Uasccnueil to iir. Holmes' mother. When ho hnd once seen it ho was strii- s .ui Its beauty and fitness for n country home, nnd asked her that ho might havo it for his own. It was there that ho built n house In which ho lived for eight or nluo years. He said thnt the Housi-tonlo Housi-tonlo winds backwards nud forwards through It, so that to go from ono end of his oslnto to the otlior in n straight lino roqulred tho crossing It seven times. Hero his children grow up, and ho and they were cnllvriednncwovery yenr by long summer dnys there. "Ho wns most Intarcsllng nnd animated ani-mated as ho spoke of thi vigor of llfo NEW AHQJPL0ILAW3. St. Louis Is now gottlnp flvo dollars n yenr for every telegraph pole that stands In her streets. J To foiicc tho timid bachelors of Canada Can-ada lfho matrimony, thcro Is serious talk of Imposing ft tax 011 thorn. A liEOWTi.r enacted lnw In Australia declares that a marriage,, may bo annulled an-nulled when proof Is furnished thnt tho bride willfully concealed her ago. Ilnvnv Oeoroi-. has been rejected as n juror In tho latest wlfo polsonlug caso In New York because ho Informed the court thnt ho would Intcrprot the lnw for himself and would decline to allow the court to do It for him. Mr.. Scninnt, of Hoboken, wns recently re-cently tried nnd convicted of being a common scold. The onclent ponalty for this offense, at laastlnXew Jersey, .vn.n.ltn In tho dueklni! stool: but Mrs. Schultz was simply reprimanded (.everely nnd flnr-d by the judge. Tub far and "frontier" west docs not nppcar to bo peopled exclusively by tough citizens. At Wlunomuccn, Nov., n jury wns formed lsst week of men whoio average ngo wns twenty-sevon, who wcro all total abstainers from drink, uono smokod cigarettes and none had ovor chewed tobacco. Ik tho circus Is to bo takon seriously, what nn era of dullness will follow. In n ecrtnln southern stato a bill has been introduced Into tho leglslatnro by the provisions of which circus companies com-panies nro to bo forbidden, in that tnto, to exhibit pictures of feats which they do not perform. iVtoruDLT tho imprest thlof ovn caught la Louis Ilourgard, of Fans, who recently, while riding In n cab, ripped open tho cushions, Hod tho horsehair into parcel, and with tho roonivy procured pro-cured from boiling hU "plunder" paid the cabman his fare. |