Litchfield enquirer., 1874-01-08
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 Leavenworth, Kan. has the metropoli tan epidemic. He is s67, 900 short.
 The inhabitants of Eaporte, Ind, ;drinl eight and half million glasses of lager beer per anrum.
 4 Georgia editor was bitten by a dog ''being evidently mistaken for a bone.
 The coming tailor will incorporate :s square of sand paper in smokers pants
 A conspicuous object in a neighbor. hood is peacock whose voice is chang. ing. sy
 The young man who boasted he could marry any girl he pleased, found that he couldn't please any. ~H-
 Hartford is good to the poor. One man drew on his hen-pen for 12O turkeys and the benefciaries certified to their fat ness.
 The liberty of the Southern press has been outraged by the conviction of Mis- sOuri editor on a paltry charge of man. slaughter.
 The Omaha Bee, with undisturbed equine-imity, remarks that s'now that Christmas is over several Omahosses are taking a sober second thought.
 A smart Danbury woman does the work for family of nine, milks two COWS. and keeps track of thirteen continued stories.
 POliteness says: A street car conduc- tor, who recently said "Yes madam" to 8 lady, has been presented with new over- coat. and they talk of a stamps to'him.
 A New York reader asks our opinion of the Universal Jaw Drill Chuck as Christ mas gift to his wife's mother. 1t is too late now for our opinion of the natter DdJi. Neirs.
 A Danbury man having giving up all hopes of a war with Spain, has consented 10 accept a position on a Slawson meat cart. Some people naturally incline to gore.
 A Vermont newspaper announces that its minimum charge for a first-class mar riage notice will be fifteen pounds of dried apples. Notices with spoetry" will cost more.
 At school examination one of the vis- itors made brief address to the pupils on the necessity to obeying their teachers and growing up loyal and useful citizens. To give emphasis to his remarks, he pointed to large national flag on one side of the room, and inquired, Boys, what is that flag for?" A little urchin who understood the condition of the house better than the speaker. promptly answered, ''To cover up the dirt, sr.'
 The Danbury News man has written to an Iowa university student named Bailey. who claimed relationship, that some one has got up a corner on his relatives of the name of Bailey, so that at the present time he does not to his knowledge pos seSs one. and concludes:
 Whether my ancestors came over in the Nayflover depends in a large measure up. Oa what was the passage money. If any thing at all | am inclined to believe that they went around" When asked if ] am relation of yours you should kindly bat firmly deny it. It IS going to be too hard a winter to take on relations.
 Thomas Mast deliver his first caricature lecture in Brooklyn, Tuesday night, at the Plymouth church. NIT. Beecher intro. duced him tO a very large audience and Mr. Mast caricatured the pastor and him. self and other persons. The entertain ment was very much liked and Mfr Mast wlll lecture again there. Hundreds of persons were turned away from the door because of lack of room
 Gen Sherman says that the outlay for Notifications in unimportant places is i'm mense and wasteful, and that $1 ,OOO, 900 IadieiOUsly expended on the approaches tO the great cities would be of more value than the $i, ,OO0, 900 now annually scatter sd over the land He has great faith in volunteers for soldiers andpiles of dirt for defeases- So have we. and we have mora faith still tn peace.
 1t Is pity Col Higginson did not bet ter know his subject before writing m the IanREEy Scribner of Mr. Charles D. War Der. He had apparently only read his hooks The reading of the Hartford Cou- rant for the last half dozen years would have shown him that his hero has more heroic qualities than he gives him credit for. and can write independent, bold, ag- greSsive editorials, as we'll as he can fire side fancies or foreign saunterings. A Connecticut political campaign is no fool of fight Higginson himself would be proud tO add to his laurels those which justly belong SO Warner for his share Tn several of them.