Litchfield enquirer., 1867-06-13
sfe Miscellaneous Items.

capital as Emperor and Empress, with de- gree of pomp and circumstance never be- fore In modern times witnessed in Mexico. Ik Marvel says country house without aporch is like man without an eyebrow. A German writer complains of the diff culties eff the English language, and the word Boz which he says is pronounced Dickens
 A new Cotholic cathedral the largest in New England is to be built at New Haven. Charles Deming and J. M. Ives of Dan- bury, caught 255 trout in that town, one day last week.
 John Bright's coat of arms oddly enough is "a dragons head gules vomiting flames of fire"
 The disclosures concerning legislative bri- bery in the late senatorial election ln Neva- da indicate state of political corruption even exceeding anything known iii the East.
 It is easier to learn who McCracken is not than who he is. The whole McCrack- en family are stirred up, and several have already publicly announced that they are not that McCracken, but ali other McCrack- en.
 A fence in Bridgeport is adorned with the following eXortation: 'Use Hoohand's German Bitters,-and Buy your grave stones of CogswelI."
 The lecture by Pollard, which was inter- 11&a 1,ff ,,Io ,ii /l +, Lo Jol, erel, was a perfect failure, owing to the absence of an audience. The people show ed very good sense.
 The reservoir of the Bridgeport water company which has just been completed, covers an area of 75 acres at a depth of from five to thirteen feet and holds seven hundred millions gallons, a supply suffi- cient for city of 100, ,000 inhabitants.
 Father Cooke, the venerable editor of the Waterbury American has regained his speech and the use of his paralyzed limbs to some extent.
 The Florida correspondent of the Cincin- nati Commercial says that Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe has three hundred acres of land near Jacksonville, which she planted
 
 ed twice it's cost. The orange crop is said to be the most profitable of any in the Gulf States.
 The gold production of Australia is said to be falling off. The decrease of produc- tion-which was 2,9S5, ,99l ounces ill 1556- has been gradual and continuous until 1865 when it was but 1, ,490, ,597 ounces.
 Among the recent English inventions is alarming machine.
 There is chime of forty-two bells in the Paris Exposition, which is played like piano forte with perfect ease, to any tune. Four years were spent in the construction of the instrument.
 Howell Cobb, of Georgia, looks twenty years older than he did seven years ago, has grown corpulent and heavy, wears shabby clothes and shabby slouched hat with the brim turned up. He says the great error of his life was in stumping Georgia for secession in 1860, and having made such fatal blunder, considers he has no right to advise the people in politi- cal matters, therefore keeps out of politics. THE MAN FOR HARD I1ME.-A young man in Troy, N. Y., Nose Johnson, deeply en- amored of damsel named Anna Bread, recently got off the following:
 ''While beles their lovely graces spread,
 And fops around them futter,
 I'll be content with Anna Bread,
 And won't have any but her."
 AS some young ladies were playing oro- quet in Detroit, day or two since, one of them was accidentally struck severe and nearly fatal blow on the temple by a mallet ln the hands of another.
 A man in St Louis was placed under 8 bond of $l5O, the other day to keep the peace toward dog, which he had threat ened to kill
 Why is conscience like the check-string in @ carriage? Because it is an inward pull on the outward man.
 May Doth, Queen Victoria laid the corner stone of the new Hall of Arts and Science in London, attended by great array of official rank and fashion. It is intended for national and international congresses on subjects connected with art and science, for grand organ performances, choral con certs, etc. In the orchestra. 1000 perform CTS can be seated. The hall will accommo- date 5000, and the freehold of 2OOO seats has been sold, those on the first tier bring ing 91OOO.
 Dr. s. G. Howe, of Boston, has arrived at Athens and forwarded to the Cretaus several hundred breech loaders. Eia pus- sant-Motley the historian, evidently don t like the Doctor. Some one mentioned Howe. "What Howe?" said M. "Why the philanthropist." Philhellenist," said Motley contemptuously.
 ANOTHER BACHELOR an example of female ideas of magnitude, We will relate 6 circumstance. A lady few days ago, re- quested us to order set of croquet for her at Camps chair factory. ''And let the balls be very large" said she-:'l let them be about 12 inches in diameter "-- Wiasted Herald
 We observe indications of decline in interest upon the part of the public in the game of baseball This is doubtless ow- ing to the unwise enthusiasm of the too ardent admirers of the pastime. Com plaints are general that to such degree do young men give their time to the sport that duties of importance to themselves or their employers are seriously neglected, and bu-