Litchfield enquirer., 1867-07-25
WHOLE NO. 225l.
Misc ellaneous Items

When is tombstone like rush-lights When 1t IS set up for late husband What most resembles pretty girl Oath ing? A diving bell(e).
 When is shower like piece of fleatherr When it is driving rain People who travel into cannibal coun- tries are apt to be turned into Indian meal.
 Babies resemble wheat in many respects Flrstly-nelther are good for much till they arrive at maturity; secondly-both are pred ln the house, and also the flower of the family; thirdly both have to be era died; fourthIy-both are generally well thrashed before they are done with. | substituted an old almanac, and they next day took different trains, he going to Tole- do In bl1ssful ignorance of his loss, and she to her friends In Indiana with the money.
 It would seem that Richmond has not vet recovered from the effects of it's secession 1ony. Three of the principal hotels in the clty-the PoWhatan, Pollard and Spotts,7 "ood-are about being closed up or sol out for want of ability to pay expenses, and even the Exchange, which receives the llon share of the patronage of the South, was unable to meet its paper few days ago: A paralysis. is seizing all kinds of ouslness. Two stores closed on Tuesday, ana the average number for rent or sale, averages three or four every block.
 If you love others they will love you. If ou speak kindly to them, they will speak kindly to you. Love is repaid with love, and hatred with hatred Would you hear sweet ana pleasing echo, speak sweetly and pleas antly yourself
 'ls your brother-in-law really such la- zy man?" asked one gentleman of another Lazy! was the reply, 'why, he's so lazy that he has an artist employed by the month to draw his breath with crayon." , ANOTHER ToM THUMB.-A remarkable be- ing has just died in Page county, Virginia Though upwards of thirty years old, he was mere babe in size, never left his cra dle except when he was assisted, received his food with spoon, and was unable to articulate
 A man dying in Toledo, left his wife half hls estate during her widowhood, the other half to go to her when she married again, He was 8 good husband.
 A teacher said to little girl at school; ''1fa naughty girl should hurt you like good girl, you would forgive her, wouldn't you| ''Yes, ma'am, she replied, eff I couldn't catch her"
 What is that which every one wishes for and yet wants to get rid of as soon as ob- tained? A good appetite.
 Some say the quickest way to destroy l weeds" IS to marry widow It is no doubt most delightful species of husban dry
 Servant looks into the breakfast room Please, madame, there's a beggar in the kitchen wants something to eat. Mistress ''Glve her the water in which the eggs were boiled, Bridget; it is quite nutrious."
 Ex-Governor Johnson of Georgia. has written letter advising the people of that state not to accept the terms of the militia ry reconstruction acts, but he advises every may who can do so to vote, with view of defeating what he terms the scheme for our degradation and overthrow of the republi- can government.
 'Your handwriting is very bad indeed" said gentleman to Q young college friend; who was more addicted to boating and crlcketing than to hard study you really" ought to learn to write better. ''Ay, ay," returned the young man, tits all very we'll for you to tell me that; but if I were to write better, people would be finding out how spell''
 ''Sure, said Pratrick, rubbing his hands with delight at the prospect of present from his employer, "I always mane to do my duty"
 'T believe you," replied his employer, ''and therefore l shall make you 8 present of all you have stolen from me during the year."
 ''I thank your honor," replied Pat; 'sand may all your friends and acquaintances trate you as well"
 President Anderson of Rochester Uni versity, gave as one reason for declining the rendered presidency of Brown Univer- sity:-'1 felt that those who had invested in me when was comparatively worthless, had right to the benefit of any rise in the stock"
 A wolf hunt came off in Grundy Co.,, H. last week. Some seventeen horsemen and 8 large number of dogs were engaged in The hunt is said to have been very exci- | sport
 An epitaph for the many:
 Reader, I've left your world in which l had world to do,
 Sweating and fretting to get rich
 Just such fool as you. l A barrel of new beer, in cellar at Lock- port burst few days since, hoisting the keeper, an Irish woman to the ceiling, de. molishing everything in range. The lady picked herself up and mildly remarked: ''Och, ,bedad-bad luck to the man that put the torpedy in the barrel"
 Dr. Holmes says that easy crying widows take new hu< bands soonest; there is noth- ing ike wet weather for transplanting.
 Horace Greedy is writing an autobiogra- phy for Bonners paper. ! Mississippi papers say that terrible dis ease, similar to the cholera, has broken out among the freedmen on the plantations along the Yazoo river. The disease has every appearance of the cholera, though it has confined itself to the freedmen On