Litchfield enquirer., 1833-09-05

tne horse ana ms address. " he next Na& thehighwaymsnb brought the Quaker's horse and told the hostler he had sold his own horse, and purchased another-wheu. to his great surprise, the hostIer informed him of his horse being brought home, and what passed at the time. The highWayman went to the Quaker's house, who accosted I-him with, " Well, friend, hast thou brought the money lent thee ?'' The hiphway- man said he had, and falling on his knees; lmpIored mercy and secresy. "I lent thee the money" said the Quaker, !" because my principles allow me not to swear even to robbers; will conceal thy name, in hopes ofthy amendment beware how thom spendest thy money in future, and thon' wilt have the less occasion to borrow.''
 The Virgin Wig.--0ne of the Jnd4es on the Western Circuit at Taunton. hav- ing finished his labors, had cast off his fo- rehsic wig at his lodgings. and retired into the next room to wait for his brother Judge. whom he was about to accompany to some of the local aristocracy to dinner. The fe- male servant of the house had entered the bed chamber by a side door, and not know ing the, Judge was in the next room. in trolic arrayed herself in the Judges wig Just at this moment, when she was admir- ing herself in the looking glass, the Judge unexpectedly entered the apartment, and the fair Mopsey catching sight of his stern countenance, looking just over her sl,oul- der in the glass. was so much alarmed that she tainted, and would have fallen on the floor, if the judge, impelled by humanity. had not caught her in his arms. At this critical moment, his brother Judge arrived. and opening his dressing-room door with view to see if he was ready, discovered his learned brother with the fainting nlaid in his arms. Not wishing so interrupt what he thought to be an amour, he quickly att tempted to withdraw, when his brother Judge vocnerated, For Gods sake, L-, stop and hear this matter explained.'- r Never mind,' said L., the matter, explains itself Z and he left him to recover the fainting maid as he could.
 London Age. 1 Cream.--G. Carter, Esq. of Engtand, has published a new method of obtaining cream from milk, by which more cream is obtained than in the common way. It is as follows: four sided vessel twelve inch- esiong, eight wide and six deen is fesnnad of zinc, having false bottom at half the deptni and a perforated zinc plate made to fit the vessel and lie upon the false bot tom. Pour the new milk into the upper part of the vessel, and let it stand twelve hours; then through an aperture or lip" lett for the purpose pour as much boiling water into the lower part, and let it stand twelve hours longer. The cream will now be SO thick that it might be lifted of with the thunib and finger; but the better way is to lift up the perforated plate by the rings at the, ends, and ,he cream is completely separated without being at aH mixed with mit From numerous experiments .It it apl pears that in this way, four gallons of milk will yield 4 l-2 pints of 1" "clotted cream" and 40 ounces of butter, being ah increase ofal2 1-2 per cent of cream and II per cent of butter, over the common method. > f
 Dazzlmg Argument. You teach,' said I the Emperor Trajan to Rabbi Joshua; that your God is every where, and boast that lie resides amongst your nations. I should like to see him. Gods presence is sndeed every where,' replied Joshua, but
 he cannot be seen no mortal eye can be- fhold his glory.' The emperor insisted. sWell,' said Joshua, suppose we try to look first at his ambassadors 2 The em- peror consented. The emperor took him into the open air at noon day and bade him look at the sun in his meridian splen- dor. II cannot,' said Trajan; 'the lighs dazzles me- Thou art unable,' said Joshua, 'to endure the light of one of his creatures, and canst thou expect to behold the glory of ibe Creator? Would not such sight annihilate thee3'
 Sour Grapes.-There is an old trodi-: lion, that when Noah had snugly secured himself in his Ark, and the rain had com menced pouring down in bright earnest, a reprobate who had long had his own sport with the aforesaid ungainly building, now finding the joke rather against him and the water above his knees, walked up and de- sired to treat for chance in it.. Noah in formed him. with the poiteDess ofa diplo-. matist. but the decision of a general. that lis proposition or his person was utterly inadmissible. A second trial was attended with ahe same success. At last our grace- less wight, finding the water washing his 1 shoulders, and that there was DO further time for mincing matters. waded again up l tn tha Ark V and htinShlv anfreafed an ad.