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MISCELLANEOUS. 

 During the piolonged cold of the pasC 

 winter there was occasion to note tho 

 extraordinary jjersistence in Europe of tha 

 wolf. In France much stock was de- 

 stroyed; in Italy wolves from the moun- 

 ts ins came down as far as Mt Soractej 

 within sight of Rome. It is not surpris- 

 iiig therefore, that they should now be 

 rpn'orted ai?ain in Maine, where for some 

 ylars no trace of them had been seen. 

 According to reports received by the state 

 commission of inland fisheries and game, 

 they have been doing considerable dam- 

 age in Piscataqua county, and specially 

 in township 7, range 10. /The wolf w 

 more difficult than most wild beasts to 

 exterminate, because it is both bold ana 

 slv. not very formidable except in a pacK, 

 and able to survive when most carnivora 

 would perish. Wherever there is wild 

 country in which a few are left they ara 

 likely to multiply when given an oppoi-- 

 tunitv, and there are not a few places iH 

 the United States where they are not en- 

 tirely extinct. }(s OM. 

 I There is verv soundi rensorf frir 



WAKEFIELD MAN KILLS 



A FIVE-FOOT RATTLER 



Antonio Nuccl of Hart street, Wake- 

 fleld. killed a flve-foot rattlesnake yes- 

 terday afternoon in the woods oft Na- 

 hant street, Wakefield, after a desperate 

 battle. The snake was colled and ready 

 to spring when Nuccl saw It. He Jumped 

 to one side and got hold of a stout limb, 

 barely dodging the spring of the snake. 

 The snake returned to the attack, and 

 tor several minutes Nuccl had an excit- 

 ing battle, finally breaking the snake's 

 back and ending the fight. 



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