Litchfield enquirer., 1874-04-09
CLIPPINGS.

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 The rumseller's prayer: "Die, O Lew 1 isl!
 To cure dull times-apply an advertise ment to the afflicted part
 It is astonishing the amount of noise a red-haired boy will get out of a whistle. A Danbury man has brought new yer mifuge with the significant name of ''The Early Bird."
 '"Too muchee girl' was what the timid i Chlnaman said as he dined the other day at Mt. Holyoke Seminary. | A Slawson funeral was postponed one day to enable the friends and relatives to attend the Black Crook matinee. | A vast number of crows came in sight of Danbury, Friday, despite the way Mir Hanscom has painted his Franklin street | house:
 A lady fainting at the Danbury Opera House, Thursday evening, begged her husband with her failing breath not to forget to put the mackerel to soak. A Danbury lady of lately acquired wealth who visited Dr. Myers, Friday, to 1 be vaccinated, she said she wanted the highest priced scab-an Alderny, she be- | lieved.
 Alluding to the death of a citizen Is- gently. the Danbury News remarks With single exception, twenty-three years ago. when he took few lessons on @ violin, his life has been blame less.''
 Stealing money or horses is a serious business out here, writes Q correspond ent from Colorado; 'but you can kill a man, and all that public sentiment de- mands is that you shall not leave the corpse in the way" We have mad an opportunity to hear scientific oratorio singing in the past week, and we like 1t. A proficient orato- rio singer is as much superior to the sim pie balladlst as steam whistle is to fute.-D. ~.
 One might write column obituary mo- tice on an office-holder and then not equal the brief announcement in an Iowa paper: Harvey Jackson, county treasurer, is dead. He was lenierit with the widowed, and his books always balanced"
 Judge Smith, being asked was tho long est Circuit Court he had ever held, re- piled, ''The longest as to distance was when used to court girl; to reach her house l had to make circuit of eleven ! miles; but the time was a mere nothing.
 The following is told of young society gentleman, who graduated from Harvard: On the examination of physics he was asked: ''Mr-,what planets were known to the ancients ?'' "Well, sir" he re- sponded, there were Venus and Jupiter, an l'-after pause, 'T think the Earth, but I am not quite certain"
 "The theater at Sydney appears to be in 8 very fourishing state," said a gentle man to John Kemble, speaking of the Botany Bay theatricals. "Yes," replied the tragediSn, "the per formers ought to be all good, for they have been selected and sent to that situa- tion by very excellent judges" A quaint old gentleman of an active. stirring disposition had man at work in his garden who was quite the re- verse.
 ''Jones, said he, ''did you ever see a snail ?"
 Certainly" said Jones. s'Then," said the old man, ''you must have met him, for you could never have overtaken him" It may be interesting to our readers to be remined of the statistics of the Congre- gationalists of the United States, now that their distinctive principles are brought into such conspicuous notice. There were. by the last report, PAST churches, SIS, ,916 churches members. 377. no in Sunday-schools. The denomina- ton IS said to be increasing in Great Brit am, and at late meeting of the Con0re- gational Union of England and Wales in London, an increase of more than 300 churches was reported in alliance with. the Union.