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Show A STOKV that Oliver Wendell Holmes tells on himself was revived in connection with his last birthday celebration. "I was, Invited Dfty years ago or so," said the doctor, "to read a poena before tho Phi Beta Kappa Society of Brown University. Uni-versity. I prepared it with great care. When the day came I read it in the oil First Baptist meeting house at Providence. I was going along famously, aud thought I was making an excellent impression, when right In the midst of a fine passage, to my mind, a drum and fife struck up iu the street. To a man the audience turned their heads and looked out of the open doors aud w indows. It lowered my self-s'stcvm iu is moment, 'I rau't be much of a fellow anyway,' thought I, 'if these people care more about a drum and fife in the street than the) do about my poem;' and I finished," said Dr. Holmes, "in a more humble frame of mind." One of the most interesting country places in Maine is that of Mark Gray, of West Freeman, who has been so successful in raising bees that he lias made $327.50 from tbeni this year. A correrfondent gives a description of hi apiary, which has been arranged with remarkable re-markable aiu-taking and is a veritable verit-able curiosity. All the hives arc painted ani striped in different comUnntious, no two alike. Mr. Gray makes his hives himself, having hav-ing built a small shop aud a minis-luresaw minis-luresaw mill fur this purpose. He thinks thu bees like to have their homes attractive as well as liunin lelngs, and that they work better and are mure contented for having everything tidy around them. They re U Ire tut very little attention, but nuythlu; out of place they notice as quickly as a ucat housewife. |