Litchfield enquirer., 1873-02-06
CLIPPINGS.

CLIPPINGS.
 An sEticle you can always borrow TrOahae.
 A trying" situatiOn-A seat on the bench.
 One can always find sheet of water in the bed of the ocean.
 Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
 If seven days make one week, how ma- ny will make one strong?
 If three miles make league, how many wm make a conference
 '-Order slate" is the iniudicious advice suspended before certain coal offices.
 It seems as if them as aren't wanted here are tn only folks as aren't wanted f th' other world
 Pillows, though not belonging to the rsEiOnAl beings.
 '-Sanbo. did you ever see the Catslin mountains 2" ssNo sah; but I've seen lem EH mice"
 Why does widow fell her bereavement less when she wears corsets9 Because then she's solaced.
 Some one wrote in hotel visitors book his initials, GA g." 4 wag wrote under meath. ''Two-thirds of the truth"
 When \. F. Willis was asked to make e speech he replied, I am by profession writer, and you cannot expect a pump to give water from the handle as we'll as from the mouth.
 Swift said the reason a certain universi- ty was a learned place was, that most per sons took some learning there, and few brought any away with them; so it accu- mul4ted
 A b0okbinder said to his wife at their wedding: "It seems that now we are bound together, two volumes in one, with Saz<pS Yes" observed one of the guests, one side highly Ornamented in turkey morocco, and the other plain calf.
 From the Danbury News:
 Litehield county doctors met in con- ventlon on the 18th, to count up their dead
 ARiver Street boy staggered his moth- CT Sunday by asking eff bats were mice angels"
 The editor of the Congressional Globe complains bitterly of cOtemporaries who take his squibs without credit.
 Litehfeld county propose ten men for the position of Lieut-governor, but it is not likely it will be able to work in more than half of them.
 TvC New Preston chOirs are engaged in a singing match, and the neighbors are tearing up their unbleached undergar- nents for ear wads.
 The proprietor of one of our livery sta eles has several hundred loads of fertili- ger for sale, which he offers at S1 load, each purchaser receiving a handsome chro- mo worth $5.
 Rev. MT. UpsOn. of New Preston, is endowed with the salary of S400. $34 of which he is always sure of, as he pays it himself for pew rent.
 medical authority recommends that salt be eaten with walnuts to aid. in the digestion. If salt IS not handy, or if the party objects to the flavor, a mustard paste on the stomach will answer the pur- pose, we presume.
 George c. Hitchcock, prominent citi- Fen of New Preston, entertained one hun dred and fifty friends, the other evening, without charge. The occasion was the union of two church societies, and danc- ing was kept up till a late hour.
 At recent Connecticut wedding, in re- peat1ng the words. ''if you know of any Iaxtez1se. etc, the minister looked at a nervous young man directly in front of him- The fellow sprang mp with much haste and trepidatiOn, and blurted out, '-0h. no, bless me not the slightest ob- lectlon. sir"
 It appears by q careful computation that there are moro people engaged in hquor selling in New Haven than there are employed on the new postoffice build ing m New York The government has been notified, and will immediately put more men on the Postofice.