Litchfield enquirer., 1867-07-25
Miscellaneous Items

cannot afford that luxury.
 The ladies, many of them drive their own equipages in New York Rumor says they go at very fast rate.
 Our prayer and Gods mercy are like buckets ia a well, while one ascends, the other descends.
 A stump orator of New York State want ed the wings of bird to fly to every town and county, to every village and hamlet in the broad land; but he wilted when naugh- ty boy in the crowd sang out, "Dry up, you old fool; you'd get shot for goose be- fore you flew mile."
 The persons elected from the senior class of Trinity College to the old and honored society. of Phi Beta Kappa, where Henry Ferguson of Stamford Frank Louis Nor ton of Norwich; Howard Cooke Vibbert of Fair Haven, and Frank Potts of Hi nois.
 The Courant says: The probable time of adjournment for the Legisture is now stat ed by the knowing ones to be week from next Saturday, with chance of staying over another week or two.
 4 riddle above par is going about on the ritualistic question. Why was Eve the first Ritualistic convert? Because she be- gan by being evangelical, and ended by taking to vestments.
 Seventeen millions out of twenty-three millions of the Italian population, can nei- ther read nor write.
 4 Dutchman thus defines the game of "Keno:" "Dat is leedle game ven all de fellars sits round init der tables, and puts puttans on pasteboard cards, nit fig gers on 'em, and don't say some dings al ready, and den by-and-by one fellar he says, "Genoo," and den all of dem udder felIars say, "Oh hellv'
 "How long will your people listen to a sermon with interest?" said strange preacher to pastor.
 "I have never tried them, and would ad- wise you not to-
 WHAT IT WAS ABoUT.-Dr. Barnes being inclined to sleep during dull, prosy ser mon, friend who was with him joked him on his having nodded now and then. Barnes insisted on his having been awake all the time. ''Well then," said his friend, "can you tell me what the sermon was about?' Yes can," he answered, cit was dEom an hour too long!"
 A Newmarket marchioness waltzed with the jockey who won the race with her horse She will elope with him next.
 It has come to light within the last few days that our government IS now negotiat- ing for the purchase of the Sandwich Is lands. The people of the Pacific states are very anxious for the acquisition of the Is 1c l,x- mt m thies of the inhabitants of the Islands are said to be in our favor.
 4 disturbed preacher remarked, "If that cross-cyed lady in the side aisle, with red hair and a blue bonnet, don't stop talking, I must point her out to the con- gregation-"
 A large German Republican club has been organized in Richmond.
 4 dissatisfied couple in Cleveland, Ohio, quarrelled the other day, when the hus- band converted his property into cash, in tending to separate altogether and leave the city next day. He deposited $4, 50( between the cloth and lining of his vest where his wife found it ill the night. She
 The New York Nation says of the eigh UOUE 1d@S DdSSCu UN bI1C LII SCN eral states: "These laws simply prohibit men from working more than eight hours unless they wish or agree to do so, and are therefore, of about as much value as an ac permitting the working-man to have roast turkey and pumpkin pie for his dinner when he thinks he can afford it."
 The following occurred in Batavia, N. r year or so ago. One of Batavia's bellies entered the telegraph office and presented .o the gentlemanly operator a communica. tion, and requested to have it sent. The smart electric aglitator" requested to ap- pend her signature, when she politely in- sisted that it would not be required as he knew her handwriting,
 Elias Howe Jr.. the inventor of the sew ing machine, has applied to Congress for &n extension of his patent for seven years from September 1867. His memorial was presented by MT. Banks on Saturday. The patent was originally granted in 1846, and has been once extended. Mr. Howe ad- mits the profits of the patent to have been nearly S1 ,2G0, 900, but claims that he has not yet been sufficiently remunerated. The memorial was referred to the committee on patents
 traveller stopped at public house in Vermont, for the purpose of getting din ner, knocked at the door, but received no answer. Going in he found little white headed man in the embrace of his wife, who had his head under her arm, while with the other hand she was giving her lit tie lord pounding. Wishing to put an end to the fight our traveller knocked on the table and cried out in a loud voice '.HallO, therel" who keeps this house. The husband, though much out of breath, an- swered: Stranger, that's what we are try ing to decidei'
 It will be seen by our Hartford cores POndence that the committee appointed to inquire into the accounts of the State Treasurer have unanimously reported ocrats as well as Republcans-that the Hon Gabriel W Coite, late State Treasur- CT Is entirely free from blame in the com phcation of the accounts in his department. This was not unexpected by Mr. Coite's numerous friends, and we hope that the partlZan journals which recklessly assumed his guilt will make all the amends in