Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1859-10-13

UNMARRIED FEMALES IN ENGLAND The census of
country reveals strange and instructive facts. Al
lew me 70 call your attention to the following:
There Is, England, all excess vi 800 Coz, lem Il,
over males. This disparity is caused by the wus
and the standing armies, by the drain vi men fer
the mercantile and naval marine and by the great
or number Of males who emiyrate to the I o.unics
and to the United States
In London alone there are 100 600 Young men in
shops and warehouses; who cannot marry by reason
Of the smallness OF their salaries If the other cities
are included, and those in tho mechanical trades
whose wages will not justify them in taking wife,
the result must be that there nearly ii quite
two millions of females in England who cannot get
married This IL an unnatural state Of things, and
will 60 great way to account for the amount of
prostitution among females and of RIGHTEOUSNESS
among men.
The extravagant views entertained among us of
the style in which young married persons must live
In order to maintain c;.ste, is doing much to prevent
marriage and to increase vice.-LndrpenceM
BuslNEss-LlKE.-A vacant Presbyterian congrega-
ton in the West recently advertised for a pastor.
holding out salary Of $780, good society and other
convenelces, inducene to attract some talent
Ell man. In short time the Il 'ck hal thirty appli
cints Tor the pastorate. They preached trial SER
MONS. or perhaps still ut it, ami hal the honor
OF paying their travelling expenses. Whatever may
ne the p'ety OF said destitute flock, they certainly
Snow nigh degree of financial shrewdness.
CrRIors.-The Dubuque UrraM saws at O. Ed
nhder House, has canary which is very fine sing
er. Some time since the servant GIRL WHO was sit
ting one night in the Kitchen was much astonishc
at an imitation of the canary notes. which procec-
ed from the cupboard. Investigation revealed the
the Cause The cupboard was lett open and u watch
war placed, and soon after mouse came out, got
up on his launches, curlc its tail squirrel fashion
over Its back and commenced werbling exactly like
Tie canasy, in sweet but low tone. This has been
tepeAted night after night and has been witnessed
ny hosts Of people. This is very singular phenom-
enon, and leads one to believe that are mice are ca.
pable Of better things than to nbble cheese or afford
dinners to prowling cats"
EDITING. How truthful the remark of a cont. m.
temporary, that Edward Everitt is not newspaper
writer, and can never be a popular one He IL elias
SIC and elegant in his STYLE but he cannot writ. a
newspaper article. He could not make a daily pa.
per live six months, unless the paper was sustained
ny means outside of its legitimate income The
same remark will apply to Washington Irving.
Longfeilow, and all other wcLknown literary q. y.
tiemen in this country. The least readable daily
paper issued in this country is the one published at
burlington, by Sake, the wittiest poet in America
oane rs W.T.. scholar, and man of genius and he
couiu no more make Il restiablc newsp .per than he
could overturn the pyramids.-Er
DEATH FROM EXTRACTING A Toorn.-In Hudson
city. New York, last week, a young man named
Hoffman had one of his front teeth extracted which
produced a continual flow of blood, and resulted in
death. 1t Is said that several ply 81 ians were in
attendance, but were unable to render any assist
anc
A LcoK OPENED BY INTERNAL Cock WoRK-The
impossibility of rendering slrcng box altogether
safe against theft by means Of skeleton keys has led
i"cksmith In Frankfort-on the Maine TO hit upon
the ingenious idea of constructing strong box with
out any keyhole at all, and which even the owner
himself cannot open. Why. what's the use Of such
box, you will ask But observe, in.id. is clock
work. the hand of which the owner places at the
nour and minute when he again wants to have &C
cess to the box. The cluckwork begins to move AZ
soon as the lid is shut, and opens the lock from the
inside at the moment which the hand indicates.
Time dependent upon the owner, il the key to the
lock- Key which can neither be stolen from n,
iinitated.-London GIobe.