Litchfield enquirer., 1868-01-23
Miscellaneous Items.

turns out that he used to be collector for newspaper.
 A friend asked of pretty little child six years old: (Which do you love best your cat or your doll?" The little girl thought some time before answering, and then whis- pered in the ear of the questioner: ssI love my cat best but please don't tell my doll"
 malignant English punster has perpe- trated highly offensive joke at the ex- pense of the Abysinian monarch. He says that this king Is in reality an Irishman and a Fenian, that his true name is ''The ODorus, and that he belongs to the same clan, as ''The ODonoghue.
 The Republicans are delighted over. the defeat of Gov. Bwann of Maryland for Uni ted States Senator. Anybody but treach- erous man will be welcomed into the Sen ate from that State. @
 Why does water boil sooner in an old saucc- pan than new one? Punch takes it upon himself to answer this abstruse query, by saying, ''It's because the old pan is used to it."
 MR Richard O. Morris of New London, who was seriously injured by the late rail- road accident at Angola, has brought a suit for S10, 900 against the railroad com pany. ... ...r
 O. s. Fowler, the phrenologist, is lectur- ing in Bridgeport
 A man in Eatons photograph rooms, Bridgeport, had his pockets picked of over $50.
 THE woolen mills at North Bridgeport closed work on Saturday last, and will not resume for six weeks or more. The mills have been running for some time at Q seri- ous loss, and the proprietors intend put ting in new water-wheel to run the ma- chinery, so as to lessen the expenses. A large number of hands are thus thrown out of work. stt -A
 BILLY WATERBURY, a brakeman of the New York and New Haven railroad, was knocked off the platform last Thursday bya pugilistically inclined person, while the cars were in motion, and they went three miles before he was missed. The train then backed up for the brakeman. and found him belaboring his assailant so vigorously as to require immediate inter- ference to save the latter's life
 'Canst thou not minister to mind diseased,
 And. with some sweet oblivious antidOte,
 Cleanse the foul bosom of the perilous stuff
 That weighs upon the heart?" ss t
 Certainly; Plantation Bitters will do it when nothing else will Melancholy, De- pression. .Hypochondria, Insanity, all spring more or less, from diseased stomach, and this, Plantation Bitters is sure cure for. There is no mistake about it; Dyspepsia, Headache, Dullness Ague, and Low Spir- its must yield to the health giving and ge- nial influence of the Plantation Bitters. II you are in doubt make the trial and be con vinced.s Thus say those who know.
 Magnolia Water-A delightful toilet ar ticle-superior to Cologne, and at half th' price. -. tr .....,s-
 'sThe way to Fame is like the, way tt Hcaven-through much tribulation." AT indispensable requisite to the attainmen of the first, is good health; keep it, by us ing American Life Drops, which are ths most wonderful Pain-Kille ever iknowr for external or intersal use -- 's" as
 "Their Name is Legion" may be applied to the innumerable diseases to which tn skin IS subject It would be we'll tor thos. who are afflicted with apparently incurablt ulcers. old sores erysipelas and eruptions to use Grace's Celebrated Salve, whicl cures in very short time, cuts, burns scalds, flesh wounds, &c.
 THREE MEDICINES IN ONE.-The old prac tice in Bowel Complaints was to give-frs a cathartic, then an alternative, and then tonic, In Railways Regulating Pills thes three medicinal principles are combined "a They, purge without prostration; chang the condition of the system without yit lence, and tone the stomach, bowels an liver. These three processes go on simu taneously under their operation, Price cents per box, coated with sweet gum, fire k from taste. Sold by Druggistssa ; x.