Litchfield enquirer., 1871-10-19
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
 The Russian army has l, 110 generals.
 Venison is eight cents pound in Wis consin.
 The champion hog of the West weighs ], 1885 pounds.
 A cat thirty-three years old is the pride of Selma, Alabama.
 Why is wife like bad bill? Because she is difficult to get changed.
 A mortgage for g, ,50o,OO was recently recorded at Omaha.
 The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky is in the market. Price $5OO,000.
 The best person-indeed, the only per son-to fill 8 vacuum, is a dentist.
 ''Saffron-hu Angel of death'' is what Mlssissippians cali the yellow fever.
 Only sixteen persons are thus far an- nounced to lecture on the Yosemite this season.
 ,e The value of petroleum exported from the United States in 1870 amounted to $36, ,0O0, ,0OO
 Iowa is troubled with superabundance of grapes. They bring only three cents bushel.
 Supposing @ man to be in serious frame of mind, is it necessary that he should be picture of despair?
 Asmall.pox flag, hoisted at the gateway of his orchard. saved Rhode Island farm, CTS fruit from thieves. - Wilkie Collins, the novelist, and Tyndall, the scientist, are to lecture from American platforms this winter.
 friend of ours says that he possesses in the person of his valet the greatest Tyre in the world-and still he is not harpy!
 The average salary of teachers in the primary schools of Prussia is less than $2OO; and they do the best teaching in the world.
 New York has been obliged to borrow six million dollars to meet it's indebtedness, and the department of public works is near ly bankrupt
 It has been computed that, on an aver age, in London ten, ill Paris thirty five, in St. Petersburg fifty.four, and in Vienna fifty five persons live in one house.
 An eccentric clergyman lately said, in one of his sermons, that about the com. monest proof we have that man is made of clay is the brick so often found in his hat"
 Charles Reade, as seen by Justin McCar- thy, IS "blg, 'burly, rugged, gray-hared, uncouth in feature and manner, eccentric in dress, bearing and theory-a huge baby in all the ways of the world."
 The Washington Chronicle, in brief no: tice of Brick Pomeroy's last literary ven- ture, says: If this is Gold Dust, it's read. ers-if by chance it have any-will steer clear of all mining operations forever af- ter"
 Joaquin Miller is pronounced not ''Jokin," but Warkin, the ''J'' being Mex ican, and having the same sound as in Juarez, and Juanita. Will all stupid, in- veterate punsters please take notice, and cease to af1ict the public?
 There are 4,OOO magazines and newspa- pers taken by regular subscribers from the Bridgeport post office.
 Robert Lewis, of Naugatuck, a pedlar, was recently robbed of $500 in Putnam county, N. r., by two highwaymen, with whom he had a severe fight before he gaveup.
 Two men named Maynard and Case were buried in Putnam, Monday, by the caving in of well, but were dug out without iniu. ", in about four hours, the curbiDg having protected them. They were sixteen feet below the surface, and the well was sixty feet deep. T
 Scene in D. A. Lewis bookstore this morning. Enter foreign gentleman :- Franks, what you pay for dot hat in dis countree2" 'sSeven dollars" ''Seven dol lars Mine Gott got dot bat in mine countree for alfpass tDo.-Bridgeport Standard
 Three Housatonic railroad brakemen mutinied at Canaan. Thursdpy night, refus. ing to accompany an extra train into Bridgeport. They were pomptly dis charged. aHu xsa ssltse1si There are now at the. State Reform school in Meriden the largest number of boys ever received within it's walls. Five in all have lately eseeped. but two have been retaken.
 Ansz6hsngs has an acquaintance who redaafks tbat he has often heard the prov erb, ''A friend in need IS friend indeed, but he says he can't see where the laugh comes in.- He has friend in need who is always borrowing money of him.