Litchfield enquirer., 1873-07-24
CLIPPINGS.


 En-su9se rmti0:-Rhyme and reason.
 Who is the oldest lunatic on record ?- Tine ont Of mind.
 When is charity like bee ?-When it begins to hum.
 A deaf and dumb burglar is the princi- pal attraction of Sparta, Wis.
 The Odd Fellows have 1O6 lodges in khe vasf wilderness of Kansas.
 A picturesque assemblage-The Photo grmphers' Convention at Buffalo. A photographer requests that his sign taken from life" should be his epitaph. Why is a provident man like monkey? Because he's fOrehanded (four-handed.) ) Iowa is proud of citizen who has com mitted bigamy at the age of seventy-ive. Dogs are taxed S25 head in Washing ton Territory, and sausages are unattain- able luxuries.
 Coleridge said that toleration was im- possible till indifference made it worth less.
 'Tove," says an amorous writer, 'sis an internal transport" The same might be said of a canal boat.
 It is said that the world owes every man living, but a great many men are too lazy to collect it.
 Why is a henpecked husband like an opera hat? Because he's very big when he is out, but immediately shuts when he gets home.
 A school girl was recently asked at an lost by his fall, and when pressed, replied: 'T suppose it was his hat"
 A Bangor clergyman fell afoul of the spring bonnets, which, with great felicity of expression, he calls '.incomprehensible huddles of finery and frivolity."
 Altoona, Pa, claims that clever little boy only eight years old, living there, has repeatedly succeeded in demonstrating the intoxicating properties of lager-beer.
 It is now stated that Colfax is waiting for Drew to die so that he may bring for ward man who saw Drew when Drew saw Ames draw the money on the $1 200 cheek.
 Judge Hoar once said of lawyer: sHe has reached the superlative life: at the first he sought to get on, and then sought to get honor, and now he is trying to get honest"
 There was true sense of the delight of intimacy in the girl who declared that she never loved her lover so we'll as when she told him how many pair of stockings she had got
 "James, said young wife to her hus- band few days after marriage, ''you were honest enough to tell me that the chimney smoked, but why didn't you tell me that you smoked yourself ?'
 The ladies of the harem of the King of Siam have put of the Siamese harem cos tune, and donned the European harem- scarem costume, consisting of chignons, hlgh-heeled gaiters and back files of news papers.
 An agricultural Second Adventist in OuIngtOn, Me, is so firmly convinced of the approaching end of the world next month, that he has mOrtgaged his farm for $5.OO0, which he is spending as fast as possible. thinking he has a particularly '1sOft thing" on the mOrtgagee.
 Wen, SnifHes," |" said an employer to a ~-ASS yO0 BOoOCA bAAC AOuHCL Yeth, thir, !" isped Snifies; five pOthted the ledger; but Tor thir, it wath too bug for the letter-boxth, and had to take 1t inthide the pothtofice
 physiciRn's horse, if valued at less than S1O0, Is exempt from taxation in CO1necticut, but the doctors justly re- mark that they can't get shay d'euvre n the WAY of hnxxnHnah fnr that Drice and have been vainly beseeching the Leg 1aaakure to extend the limit toy$2OO.
 A lady in LAnsingburg hailed a passing car with her little son the other morning to see him safely on the hOrse-car for a tnP to Troy. He stepped on board and scrambled for the front of the car. As he u&s going his mother said, 'why, arn't yOU going to kiss your mother before you gOg The little fellow was so delighted at the prospect of fide and in such a hurry that he hastily rejoined, looking back excitededly, ''Mr. Conductor, won't you kiss mother for me 2"