Litchfield enquirer., 1870-12-29
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 MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
 Judge Hoar has settled down to his pro- fession In Boston with larger practice than before he went into the cabinet.
 It is estimated that there are fifty thousand white people in Tennessee who can neither write their names nor read their Bibles. z-s 1-a-
 An inquisitiye individual wants to know if freckled- face girls come under the head of the 'speckled beauties" which we hear so much about.
 General Edward Harland, of Norwich, has invented and.published most ingeni- Ous calendar, good for three hundred years and printed on paper the size of visiting card. It will be 8 handy thing, and will last man his lifetime.
 The idea has been suggested, and will probably be carried out, of erecting 8 mon- ument to the memory of Elliot, the mis- sionary to the Indians, upon tue spot in Newton where once stood the first Indian church in America.
 In Switzerland milkmaid who is good singer gets more salary than others be- cause under the influence of music COWS are said to give more milk. farmer in Albialowa Is trying to hire Parepa- Rosa and Kellogg to sing round his pump.
 The Rev. Mir. Mackonochie, leading London ritualist, has been sentenced to three months suspension for disobeying the monition of the privy council not to elevate the consecrated elements, or kneel before them.
 The celebrated physician Doumoulin was surrounded in his last moments by several distinguished doctors of Paris. "Gentle- men," said he, ''do not regret mel leave behind me three great physicians. On their pressing him to name them he briefly added: 'sWater, Exercise and Diet" to the no small discontinue of his disappointed brethereH.
 Lillie Peckham. the Milwakie woman s rights speaker, said on the wages question at the Cleveland convention:-
 '.Now candidly, don't you think wo- man receiving ten dollars a day for six hours work as a public officer, could care for her children much better than if she was compelled to work hard all day long as @ washer woman or sewing woman"
 A correspondent who visited the South. ern hospital (Paris) writes that he found the following notice posted on the en- trance door:-Whoever shall bring cat, a dog. or three rats, shall be at liberty to stay at lunch and dinner N. B.-It is ab- solutely necessary that the animals should be brought alive. The skins may be taken away. such notice, it is said, is common on the doors of the hospitals of Paris.
 Irreverent saints and provoking Gen. tiles are poking thrusts at Brigham Young through new comic paper at Salt Lake City. The first number of Diogenes opens with terrible dig at Brigham's claim to instability in letter from Brigham I, to Dear Brother Plus, inviting his holi- ness to Utah, with the tempting offer of a portion of Brigham's wives as the situation of the gentleman at Rome had not inclu. ded the iuxuries of Utah. As Brigham s ton, the holy father is kindly urged to bring his along.
 Henry Ward Beecher's church has a to. tai membership of 1882, of which number l,21O are women. The Sabbath school has an enrolled membership of 1, l07, and the Bethel school 96O. For music the church pays $6, 900 divided as follows: Director $2,OOO tenor $1,000; soprano 800; alto $500; organlst $500. The pew rents amount to $56, 900, and collections have been taken up the past year for all purpo ses to the amount of $11, ,O99. IA.
 Missouri Republicans who belong to the Gratz Brown wing of tue party are grati fled to learn that the President has modi fed his views respecting the politica troubles in that State. In conversation ol late he has expressed his desire to aid ir promoting harmony, and in healing tho feud which threatens to throw the State into the hands of the democracy. It is be lieyed there will be no more prescriptions and removals of republicans from office or account of their having differed from Sen ator Drake in the late campaign in Nilsson ri, and that the republican party will sooI be reunited.
 One of the Jenkins family, who has stood the abuse of his knsman until hi. patience was utterly worn out, lately sen the following indignant outburst to the New York Tribune :-'I have been a read CT of the Tribune for eighteen years. frequently see tue name of Jenkins in your paper, and in almost all cases connec ted with acts of cowardice or toadyism Now, don't know of any family named Jenkins who could fill such contsmptible place-none who take of their hats or bow the knee through fear or favor. If you know of such continue the insult; if you know of none, drop tho name in future and oblige yours respectfully. John T. Jenkins"
 Mention is made in New York of an ali ance near at hand between four story brown stone house with carriage and ser. wants, and fortune on top of it of $25O, 900 on the one hand iencumbered by 20( pounds of flesh and blood, with the bloafed countenance of rakish widower,,, and on the other, a chignon or trousseau, smat tering of French and love of the world the hesh and the devil, all done up in the painted form of a fashionable young lady So says a newspaper correspondent, and the announcement is in perfect accord with the curtoms of modern civilized socie Bridgeport Farmer.
 The Registers correspondent in Chicago has come across several Connecticut meI and he discources about them as follows:- "Boys who need encouragement would dc we'll to remember the case of young Everett St. John. of Kent, Connecticut. Six year! ago he was mere stripling, just big enougt