Litchfield enquirer., 1870-09-15
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Adeer ceuntry-A stag-nation. Popular diet in Utah-spare rib. A green grocer-One who trusts.

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 A green grocer-One who trusts.
 Pre-hysteric times.-Before tight lacing.
 The police in southern city report that the rascals on their beat are to lazy to steal
 A fine strong rope is is manufactured in California from the milkweed- -asclcpias.
 Immense quantities of American cured meats are shipped from Liverpool to France.
 An Iowa paper has correspondent wri- ting against capital punishment, and sign ing his name ''One who has been there."
 Pity or despise the youth who parts his hair in the middle if you will, but do not expect great performances at his hands. Americus, Ga., claims to have Q New foundly dog that goes out with hook and line and catches trout.
 A Minnesota school board has ordered lightning rods off the school-houses, "they draw thunder so.'
 Long Branch estimates its visitors, this summer, at 200, 900; Atlantic City and Cape May at l50, 900. and Saratoga and Newport at loo, ,0OO.
 Secretary Cox has forbidden the circula- tion through the interior department of papers for voluntary subscriptions to aid the republican cause in Pennsylvania.
 On the return of a Deputy from exile to Madrid, lately, he was met and welcomed by 5000 Republicans, who accompanied him to his residence.
 ''Aunt, why do you sit out the long ser. mons of that minister ?" said niece. 'My dear, " replied aunt, "they accustom me to eternity" ~
 A young man recently married in Beloit, to sew together rags enough to make sixty yards of carpet. ..t.-.
 It is reported that the New York Tribune is having Greeley's old editorial manu- scripts engraved as maps of the seat of war.
 The peanut crop of Virginia this year will be 400, 900 bushels, while Tennessee raises 100000 bushels, and Georgia and the Carolinas from 150,0 ,000 to 175, ,OOO.
 A second military company of colored men has been organized at Hartford, most of the members of which served in the 29th regiment during the war. ...s
 William Day, of Springfield, 8 brakeman on the Hartford and New Haven road, had his arms crushed while coupling cars at Hartford, Wednesday, so sthat amputation was necessary. .'.. '--
 A Chicago paper announces that Horace Greeley's s What know about Farming" is being dramatized by Mrs. Stowe for Lydia Thompson blondes. r ....,
 A California paper finds it necessary to explain that the peculiar taste of the water in an Alameda we'll was caused by the pres- ence of six dead cats It's medicinal vir- tues had previously been highly praised.
 Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote to the doO- tors of Berkshire that, eff the pendulum of belief does not swing through pretty wide arc, the hands of progress will hard ly be kept going"
 The wealth of Boston, if evenly divided, would give 5000 to every man, woman and child in the city. There are objections on the part of many to having the wealth so divided. -lsra
 A young man charged with being lazy, was asked if he took it from his father. 'T think not was the reply; |" Fathers got all the laziness he ever had"
 The Earl of Shaftesbury, in speaking re- gently of the evils arising from the celibaCy of the Roman Catholic clergy, said:I " If His Holiness the Pope had wife, she would not allow him for an hour to remain in the belief that he was infallible.'"
 The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Boston, Hartford. and Erie railroad, will be held in Boston, this month. Be- sides $1, 5000 not yet used, of the form- CT aid, the treasury of the commonwealth holds half 8 million of dollars of sink ing fund, which will pay the Burdell bonds at maturity. CowGst. s%st@
 Judge K, of North Carolinia, is . great stickler for forms. One day soldier, who had been battered considerably in the war, was brought in as a witness. The Judge told him to hold up his right hand. Cant do it. sir," said the man. I" Why not ?" "Got a shot in that arm, sir" s'Then hold up your left The man said that he had got shot in that arm too. "Then, said the Judge sternly, you must hold up your leg. No man ever. can be aworn sir in this courk bv law unlAaa he