Litchfield enquirer., 1873-03-27

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no
 permanently wise man, but men capable
 or wisdom, who, being put into certain
 company, or other favorable conditions,
 become wise for a short time, as glasses
 rubbed acquire electric power for while.
 We are inclined to believe that women
 are going for the polls in dead earnest from the fact that, of nine married men
 talking politics in a Danbury grocery, Saturday evening. seven were entirely bald.-D. N
 A bill has beeniintroduced in the Indi- ana Legislature giving ministers fees of from five to ten dollars for preaching fu- neral sermons, and more if the estate ex- ceeds $lO0. .000 the same to be a lien on the estate of the deceased.
 A Thomaston reader complains to us of his pastor who persists in praying with one eye open. It may. be matter of taste in which we ought not interfere, but it cer- talnly doesn't tlook well for one eye to be en- gagged Tn reverent devotion, and the other to be prowling around over the congrega- tlon m search of business. It ain't right; | m ain't conscientious.-D. ".
 A boy of tender years and heart has drowned IT kittens, tied tin pans to the tails of all the neighbors' dogs, ornament ed his chamber by pinning flies to the ! wall, cut brlckbats with his uncle's razor,
 blown up a pet canary with fire-cracker, pulled the tail feathers out of two roost- CTS, been thrown into the top of an apple l tree by . COW that he was teasing, brush cd hIs fathers hat against the grain, told his sisters lover about her false teeth, and still his fond mother intends him for the pulpit.
 A German settler ill Ohio, found guilty of selling liquor contrary to law, and sen tenced to be imprisoned i'll the county jail for thirty days, protested as follows: 'fChail Go to chsil 1fe go to chail But can't so Dere's my piziness-my bakery. Who pAkes my bread when I been gone ?". Then casting his eyes about the court appsalingly.. they fell upon the good-natsrsd face of jolly Chris who had no 'piziness, and forthwith a brilliant idea struck him. Turning to the judge, he said, in sober earnest ''Dere's Chris Ellwaner He's got nod ings to do. Send him p
 A Philadelphia editor, having received from his M. c. copy of the latest Patent Office Report, thus expresses his grati- tude We already have sixteen hundred of these interesting volumes in our little library, but they have been read and re- read so many times that we know every page of them by heart. This new volume came opportunely and gratefully on Christmas morning, and that night we gathered our little family around the fire and read 1t through to them. The affect ing tale entitled Improvement in Monk ey Wrenches," seemed to touch every heart, and when We came to the climax of the little story about Reversible Pie boards" there was not dry eye between the front door and the stable During the reading of the pious narrative entitled
 ''Gum Washers for Carriage Axles," the whole family gave expression to boiste- rous emotion, and the hired girl was so l much excited that she lost her presence of mind and went round to her mothers inadvertently with six pounds of sugar and butter kettle full of flour, but came home at midnight intoxicated. We can never sufficiently thank Judge Kelly for the innocent enjoyment thus furnished uS.