Litchfield enquirer., 1873-08-14
CLIPPINGS.

ark? Because he had bark of his own.
 A young mans friends object to his be- ing loose, but somehow they have an equal objection to his being tight.
 ''I feel myself at home in this city, " said his Majesty the Shah. ''Here, at least, we all worship the Profit
 Ornamental penmanship is fast coming into favor here. Indeed it would not be too much to say that it fourishes exten- sively.
 A Danbury agriculturist made scare crow so frightful that it not only kept away the crows, but caused winter-kill- ed pear tree to leave
 A pianoforte maker says that, of all manufactured things, pianos bear the no- blest characters, since they are classified as grand, upright, and square.
 A little beggar girl in New York has got hold of the wrong paper, which certi- nes that the bearer IS widow with five children, III destitute circumstances.
 An agriculturist who came in to pay for auction bills, Saturday, said che see by the papers that that little Persian cuss had gone home ID. ~.
 Controversy and chemistry. Why is absolute dogma, your reverences, like ab- solute alcohol! So please you, because it IS utterly above proof.-Punch.
 Rector (going his rounds). ''An un- commonly fine pig. MT. Dibbles, I de- clarei'
 Conteiaplative TIUager. ''Ah, yes Sir, if we was only, all of us, as Fit to Die as him, Sir!''
 A gentleman in Indiana, when asked why he didn't marry and settle down, feel lngly replied that he thought more seri- ously of being divorced and settling up
 Never hypothecate anything; for the hypothecary, if he have a chance will be sure to go back on you.-N y. Graphic.
 Kalulu, the playful little moke brought from Ujiji by Stanley, is blacking boots in Milwaukee, in the same barber's shop he used to work in before Stanley picked him up.
 It is remarkable fact that the moment woman writes letter she is frantic to put 1t in the post-ofice although she may AA"'o OO0A pI1V14ASS Ou Gu5 WI1GluS LOT SIX months.
 A Boston minister concludes his ser mon as follows: ''But I hear the rustling silks in the pews as if some of the ladies were impatient to leave; I will therefore say, God bless you.'
 Foravard and Loquacious Youth. ''By Jove, you know, upon my Word, now-if l were to See Ghost, you know, I should be Chattering Idiot for the Rest of my Life!'
 Ingenious Maiden (dreamily). Have you Seen Ghost?"
 In recent article on fair in his local ity, the editor of a western paper says brother editor took @ valuable premium, but an unkind policeman made him put 1t right back where he took 1t from.
 If there is room for one more in that balloon of the Graphic's there is young man in Danbury who can fill it. He lives opposite us and plays an accordeon. He might object to running the risk, but he could be stunned by blow on the head, and got into the balloon before he recov- ered.-D. ".
 A householder whose establishment is not quite so free from vermin as it might be was so fascinated with the Ethiopian lately exhibited in the Central Park collection that he has written to an Ethiopian ''sport" requesting him to send on by return of mail a bugbear, if such a creature is to be had.
 An Oregon paper states that the rage for the "ie" termination has come to disastrous conclusion in one family in Portland. A farmer named Axe christen- ed his eldest girl Belle. She had some cards printed in the "ie " fashion, and we'll, after looking at the result, she con- cluded Belle was pretty enough for her, and burned them
 A middle-aged lady met bridish-look- ing lady in the post-office, yesterday, and the following conversation followed.
 ''Mary, is it true that your mother is dead?" asked the former
 ''It is,' said Mary.
 'sAnd were you married before she died?"
 "No." said Mary; ''not until three days after
 The .middle-aged woman stared at the bride for moment, and then slowly and bewilderingly said:
 "Do you mean to say that your poor mother died without-without seeing what you were married in?'-D. ~.
 A stampede of buffaloes, at the brink of a cliff seventv-fve feet high, beside the Pacific Ocean, supplies for the Denver, (Col.) News ''beautiful little story, D which concludes as follows: ''For thirty seconds it rained buffaloes, and the white sand at the foot of that bluff was incarna- dine with the life blood of wild meat, and not until the tails of fifty or seventy-fve of that herd had waved adieu to this wick ed world did the movement cease"
 The prospects of the republican party in Virginia are represented as very favor able; and all of the leaders from that State state that they expect to elect their ticket and majority of the legislature in November. The disaffection within the party will not materially affect the repub- Iican vote, and, while Senator Lewis and his personal followers will not actively support the ticket, 1t is more than likely that Wise, Lyons, and their friends will. The canvass will be one of the most dili- gent and vigorous ever conducted in the State.
 I admit that England is at this moment rich and strong. admit that her aris- tocracy were never more powerful. But, making these admissions, believe that there runs beneath the fabric of England a stealthy unseen current which is rotting away the foundations of everything. The church in England has gone. The suffrage has been enlarged. After little the house of lords will tumble. Then the gradual rise of the lower orders. Then disastrous foreign war. Then the and the revolution Cores. Courier Journal
 Mrs. Swisshelm claims that the educated Indians who return to their tribes become ''Hole-in-the-Day permitted his son and heir to be taught in a mission school in St. Paul, where he became a good English scholar and dandy. Gov ernment built him six room frame cot tage, which his tribe finally burned, but in which he lived many years of elegant leisure with his six wixes, who used to
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