Litchfield enquirer., 1829-04-30

means of rake or garden hoe, and after wards rinsed in clear water. Then press them dry with the hand, and put them up- on the floor of an empty and we'll lighted room, and now and then Do whipped and stirred up and when thoroughly dry, put up again into ticks. They are better than new feathers, deprived of the oil, which abounds in the latter. CoUsIN TAB1THA.
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 JnUcnilc Pk;Iosopky. y.-Walking the other day in the streets, we saw a little fellow fall on his face on the pavement, on which he roared out most ustily.-Running to pick him up, we wisely applied ourselves to cheer him with the comfortable consid- eration that he would be well to morrow. "Poh, poh, my little man, don't cry, you'll not mind it pin tomorrow" Upon which the young sufferer, surely uncon- scious of the sense and wit of his reply, said with the tear in his eye, and the cry of pain hardly for moment repressed- < Then won't cry tomorrow" A dis course of an hour long, could not better eIucidate the subject. LiUeypOOI Ado.
 A soldier of General Marion's Brigade, named. Livingston. an Irishman by birth, meeting with an armed pany on night profouhdly daFk, suddenly found u llorse- mans pistol applied to his breast, and heard the iinperions command -ss Declare instantaneously, to what party you belong, or you are dead man. " The situation be- ing such as to render it highly probable that it might be an, enemy's party, he very calmly replied, {" think, Sir, it would be little more in tho way of civility if you were to drop hint, just to let me know which side of the question y0w are pleased to favour."-" No jesting," replied the speaker, "declare your principles, or die" !" :" Then, by ---'' rejoined Livingston, ssI will not die with lie in my mouth. Amer ican, to extremity, you spalpeen, so do your worst and be damned to you '' You are an honest fellow" said the inquirer, {" we are friends, and I rejoice to meet a man faithful as you are to the cause of our country"
 The twO Cats be0t.--It has been con- fidently asserted that the black snake of North America has the property of expan- ding itself to such a degree, that he has been known to swallow a bulk twice as big as his own. Our informant states that two of these reptiles having come in contact, and both feeling demands of ap- petite. the first assailant began at the tail of the other with such vigor, that he soon made his antagonist look about, who, be- lieving in the doctrine of retaliation, be- gan 10 pay him in his own coin, and thus they began mutually to swallow each other nntiltnotsa vestige was to, be seen.
 Port Gibson Correspondent.
 RosOland Stephenson. .--The London Sunday Times says. 4 @@sssg # R
 ".Mrs. Knyvette had deposited with Stephenson, at five per cent interest, the whole of the money she had carefully saved previously to her marriage. The poor woman who keeps the gate at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, had, by extreme parsimony, and as nest egg for the com- forts of old age, scraped together nearly 2oOl. which by accident came to the knowl- edge of Stephenson, when he prevailed upon her to deposit the same in his hands for security. The old woman is now re- duced to comparative beggary." s.s
 A person in Norfolk, Va. who was troubled with weak eyes, fitted himself, after some difficulty, with apair ofspec- tacles, for which he paid adollar. Be- fore he left the store, he discovered that the frames had no glasses in them, and although they suited his weak eyes ad- mirably, he svas foolish enough to return them and take hts money again.--P Patriot.