Litchfield enquirer., 1872-01-25
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Yokohama has a lager-beer brewery now.
 There are 5000 vacant dwellings in \ Paris. -
 Moose meat sells at Halifax for five cents pound.
 St Louis street boys snowballed the A Grand Duke. .s--.T
 The orphans fair at Boston netted s13,- 371.31.
 Measles killed thirty-nine St. Louis vic- tims, last year.
 The value of school property in Ohio is nearly $15, ,0O0 0O00.
 Pennsylvania wants higher price for coal and pig-iron.
 Old Rye is one of the healthiest old towns in New Hampshire. Wine made of Iowa wild grapes is high ly spoken of. ' Seven thousand persons were vaccinated in New York last week.
 A bale of silk coceons, weinging one hundreds pounds. is worth $1 900. Levy, the cornet player, loses $1O,OOO salary by the death of Fisk. The present winter has been very severe in France, England and Italy. Milwaukee's new German paper SUD- ports the present administration. The "clip" of California wool last year amounted to 9, ,1S7, 1s8 pounds. Richmond, Va, shipped ninety thou sand barrels of flour to Brazil last year. There are seyenty-eight railroads an dermany, owning IS, 145 miles of road.
 Independence Hall, in Philadelphia, was visited by 450, 900 persons last year. Atlanta, Georgia, is composed. mainly O,OOO people and 150, 900 dogs.
 The great plains of Texas contain one hundred and fifty-two million acres. Monkeys in Buenos Ayres suffered more by the recent yellow fever than men. It is apprehended that Helea Josie Mansfield will now enter the lecture field Pins were first used fin 1543. Before that time ladies used to skewer their dresses.
 London newspaper dealers let their copies of the Times by the hour to people too poor to buy.
 Betting in New York is 60 to 40 in favor of the Stokes jury disagreeing, or acquit- ting him.
 Fifty thousand emigrants left Germany last year, nearly all going to the United States.
 During the twelve years from 1859 to 1871, no fewer than 2,267, 300 Germans emigrated to this country. The champion temperance man lives in Danbury. He has signed the pledge eighty-three times.
 An Illinois minister, reading in the Pa ducah Kentuckian that news was scarce, sent the editor Bible.
 President Grants father, MT. Jesse R, Grant, has resigned his position of post master at Coyington, Kentucky.
 Louisiana bonds are reported to have gone up ten per cent. on the going down of popular feeling in New Orleans.
 This is said to be the most fatal season for oldest inhabitants that ever was known. They are now nearly all dead.
 A half dozen coasters are being built at Belfast, Maine, this year, and the ship ping interests are said to be improving. Messrs. Emanuel, of Bond street, Lon- don, have purchased the jewels of the Empress Eugenie for 980,OOO-or $400,- 900.
 George Elliott says: GA woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission after l ward"
 A single acre of land in Florida, which l has been planted with Scuppernong grapes, yielded last year 1000 gallons of wine. At Jacksonville, Fla, beef of good quality retails for ten and fifteen cents per pound; potatoes, $1.5O per bushel; and sweet potatoes 75c. A Caution. n.-Laura-"Oh, Amy you ought never to wear ring on your third finger unless you are really engaged. Mamma says it often prevents good of fer"
 Professor Marsh on his trip to Kansas discovered the greater part of the skele- ton of fossil bird five feet high, and very different from any known birds of former or present time. Two Illinoisans who did not procure | tickets beforehand and consequently were elected from the cars of the Illinois Gen. tral railroad, have just received $250 and $3OO respectively as damages.
 The Rev. W. H. H. Murray being in hurry to go from Rockland, Maine, to Boston, and finding that the regular train l would make him half hour late, charter ed an engine for $50 and gave the engi- neer on arrival fee of five dollars be- l sides.
 A youth of Omaha is endeavoring to procure the arrest of photographer for forgery. The artist had touched up" the photograph of girl, upon which the youth had based an offer of marriage, ''sight unseen, and now considers him. l self swindled.
 Here is a political axiom: "A man who will resort to fraud to procure nomina- tion is almost sure to be dishonest officer, and when exposure comes, the party must bear the odium resulting from his mis- conduct"
 The first party in the field with it's pres- | idential ticket will be the nation al temperance party, which. meets in con- vention at Columbus, Ohio, on the 22d day of February. About the same time the national labor reformers meet in the same plac, and they may put up presi- dential ticket. By August next we shall probably have four or five presidential tickets before the people.
 What will he ''ingenious Yankee" de wise next? One of these individuals was before the Postmaster General the other day with postage stamp that had on its adhesive side the taste of choice candy. The two-cent stamps, according to this plan, might have a chocolate taste, the three-cents orange, the ten-cents lem on and the twelve-cents vanilla, and so through the list of popular sweet-meats. Cundurango would be found servicable for the highest-priced stamps.