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Grey River Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 5366, 10 December 1885, Page 2

When Mr John Holmes, a brother of Oliver Wendell Holme 3, was living in the Appian Way, in Cambridge, a friend called upon him, and during their talk said, " John, you ought not to be living in this poor way. You ought to have better quarters; you should have a wife." "Yes, I suppose so ; for if I took a better half I should be sure of better quarters," was the quick reply. A Scotch nobleman of no bright parts, chatting with the late Duchess of Devonshire, she asked how it happened that the Scots in general made a much -better figure from home than in Scotland. "Oh," says he, "nothing is so easily accounted for. For the honor of the nation, persons are stationed at every egress to see tha f none leave the country but men of abilities." "Then," returned she, "I suspect 'your lordship was smuggled." A cheque for the current dividend in the Cambria mine was drawn on Nov. 13, and 1 amounted to the respectable sum of £14,175, the same amount that was distributed in a dividend a few weeks I since. .. ' (Remainder of news see Sappletnent.) ''■'"