Litchfield enquirer., 1874-10-15
CLIPPINGS.

4u0 mhu WHO WOTkS Wltu u Will no probate judge.
 A signboard can't tell everything, It takes an advertisement to do that.
 "Mr. Smith, the hogs are getting into your corn-feld." ''Never mind, Billy, I'm sleepy. Corn won't hurt 'em''
 Major Arthur B. Leach, captain of the Irish team, has challenged American ride- men to a match in Dublin in June next.
 The world is sure to find an honest man, but it will find him out great deal quick CT if he advertises.
 What is the difference between an over- coat and baby? One is what you were and the other is what you was.
 The preliminaries of the marriage of ? Colonel Fred. D. Grant to Miss Ida Ho- nore, of Chicago, to take place December 2, have been arranged.
 While Chicago family were on sum- mer tour, burglars entered the house. sold out all the effects at auction, pockeedt the cash, and finally sold the house itself.
 Brooklyn is pious place. Even the saloon keepers quote Scripture. One of them has for sign, ''Why halt ye be- tween two opinions.
 A New Orleans man is so incensed at Kellogg that he says his wife shan't go to hear him sing in the Bohemian Girl, 7" next winter.
 A youthful Pennsylvania granger about to be chastised by his father, the other day, called for his grandfather to protect him from the middleman.
 If you want to hear the pure, silvery. Italian language in all it's fuency and beauty, drop a red-hot nickel into the ex- tended palm of organ grinder.
 This is the season when boys in the country retire at o'clock so as to get @ nap before going out at midnight to gath CT apples and pears from neighbor's or chards.
 A western dentist who was fined $500 Tor kissing lady patient, is preparing a statement" He says he is standing on the ragged edge of a blackmailing opera tion.
 The Rhode Island authorities forbade the passage of Boston girls trunk across It's territory, objecting to the shadow the same would be likely to cast over the State.
 ''There was an old family fuel between them, was what witness in a Chicago murder case said to the jury. The judge asked her if she didn't mean "feud" and she asked him who was telling the story.
 England needs missionaries. The fol- lowing advertisement appears in Japa- nese newspaper: "For sale. 8 very fine idol with six arms. It is fifteen feet high, and was cut in bronze at Sheffield, Eng land"
 A lad who borrowed a dictionary to read. returned it after he got through, with the remark: "It was very nice read ing. but it somehow changed the subject very often."
 In Japan the law requires that when a person cuts down tree he shall plant one Tn its place. In this way the supply of wood is kept up. George Washington owes his country tree.
 The Cheyennes have forced Gen Miles to retreat to the neighborhood of Antelope Hill. and, encouraged by their success. have started out war parties. one of which had met General Davidson somewhere m the Washita. Lively times are looked for.
 Phebe Strickland died at New London. last week, aged 100 years and months. Ontli short time since she was able to walk around the house, and after her one aandreth year could go up and down stairs without help. She died of old age.
 A California historian relates how that san Juan miner, who has been prospect. Ing m southwestern Colorado. has found whole forest of petriGed trees, with pet uf1ed birds sitting on the limbs. singing Petrifed songs. The stunning statement as hard to believe
 A fellow rushed into an office. one morning, with the interrogation: ssWhat's the difference between the mice that have l1st been eating my greenbacks and the Epistles of PaulY' All present subsided. and he gasped: ''They're both scripchew- CTS, and then rapidly proceeded to the door.
 Speaking of illustrated papers General sherman says:-'T have ridden General Washingtons horse twenty times in pic tufes, and so have Grant, Sheridan and sne rest. They keep General Washing sons horse on hand and stick head of any of us on it when convenient"
 The gallant secretary of life insurance company, being in command of a platoon during the late unpleasantness in Arkan- sas, struck up the gun of one of his men ao0ut to fire on O staff officer. with the exciamation:-"D-n it, don't shoot at hlm; we've got policy on him."
 It was pleasant scene on the Hoboken. ferry boat, Chancellor Livingstone. re- gently, when a stout man named Kolbs took advantage of the crowd on board to go crazy, and rushed about stabbing whomsoever he could get near. No one was mortally injured, but there was little enjoyment on the boat. mn A ~ TJnrmrv I A hoo, .L.x :u x -,