Litchfield enquirer., 1874-03-12
MISCELLANEOUS.


 The "Old Bay Rum State" is what the Chicago Times calls 1t.
 Indiana has an average of sixteen gran. ges to each county.
 The democrats of Illinois are working for the repeal of the registry act of that Stnfe.
 Sir Samuel Baker believes the influence of one steamer in the center of Africa is equal 10 that of hundred missiona- ries.
 ssA soldier shall not fall by my hand now, says the valiant Butler. How many ever did fall by your hand, general? -B0st0a Herald
 The new constitution has done for the Rennsyivania legislature just what the general railroad law did for New Jersey abolished the lobby.
 The Ch1rchman thinks that the pray ing women engaged in the auti-liquor crusade n the west have ''a wholly unau- thor1Dsd and mistaken conception of prayer"
 The Ohio legislature, beIng democratic. vas expected to repeal the Adair liquor law. but public opinion has been so ex- cited by the woman's movement that 1t wln hardly presume to do so.
 Gloomy and dissipated youth (who has dHsc3vsred thAi life IS not worth having) -'1 hope shan be alive after thirty p UnSyn2athvtic elderly party-''is there any particular nec -ssity that you should be alive till thirty :'
 There are nearly D women practicing medicine in New York and Brooklyn, mos ot them homeOpsthica ly, and many hav- ing incomes of between g 900 and S3, 900, wkiie several reach 5000, and one or two over Sl0.001. There are three medi- cal colleges there, and fourth is now building.
 ''Scuptaral education and unlimited drink, 'fThe Bible aud Beer, the nation al religion and national beverage" were favorite party cries for the tories in the re- cent British elections. Beer beat MT. Glad stone. His own colleague, a youthful and stupid brewer, actually received more votes than he did.
 The chamber of deputies of the Grand Duchy of Hesse voted, some time ago, a series of resolutions relative to the exclu- sion of priests belonging to religious or ders frOn the functions of teacher or professor. These dispositions have just been adopted by the upper chamber, by fifteen votes to twelve.
 The argument has been deliberately made on the floor of this senate that pre- ciouS metals can never more be g stand ard Of value, because they are not equal to the products of industry. As well might tt be said that the yardstick could never more be the standard of measure because 1t was not as long as q roll of cloth.- Ss7aafoF .SchUT-
 The popularity of this ballad in Ono at the present time can only be appreciated by a Man who has ''gone dry" for month:
 Rouse thee o Respondent brother,
 Cheer with hope these days of pain;
 When this whiSkey war is over,
 GOE bet we'll all get drunk again.
 The delivers among old documents in the London offices have discovered some more things of interest concerning Chau- ceE. On the 3d of September, 1890 near ly 50 years ago, he was robbed of E2O of the kings money. Richard II. forgave CA1ucer the repayment. Chaucer super Intenaed the batting up of the scaffolds from which Richard H. and his queen sAw the loa<ts at Smithfield. He paid 9S fur the work His own wages were two SAIllEngs day-nOt much for a court fa- voE1te- The master carpenter had one shilling dsy.
 1he cAnse of tine recent assault on Rev. Lather Baecher, at Nyack, N Y., is said to have been an act of imprudence on his
 
 her wln, while calling at her house. The lady and her husband were highly indig- m&Rt. and the gentleman determined that his pauishmeat should be open and con- spSczoaS Beecher IS teacher in a school @ftenied by yOang ladies of the first fam lseS>
 PahlSe schools have been established la Italy, where there Is to be compulsory edGc2s1oa hereafter, as in Germany In sh@ Italian parliament + was stated that the a1a5ex of pupils Tn the kingdom un- der tee instruction of lay teachers is aSo1t seventy per cent. of the whole, the rest re21lnlng under the control of the cAerseAl schools The greatest increase in the pgo0oxt1o0 of pupils in public schools ta those m church schools has been in the larger cities
 The Hartford COurant in recent issue Stsses thai the editor of this journal %.Saaght~ the nomination for secretary of sSz*e- It Is perhaps the shortest way to af<pose of this falsehoOd say he didn't. No man can trzshfulIy Say that by word et EG7Eh CT word Of pen we sought to gum hIs i1a1ence or vote to carry the nozI12rIoa referred to-so the assertion ey OCT old friends Is not easy to hear, be- e@zse istls aS untEnthful as it was unex- pe-tsd and discOurteOus.-W WiRdhaDl C0wstg ZrrRscript.
 Colonel HIgginson says that when he was boy st cambridge there was not a boat owned HArEsTd. student in the class trO years before him owned the first bSat and was ''haaIed up'' by the faculty therefor He pleaded that he was not aware of any oOIection to it-there was nothing against 1t in he college laws of far as he knew The college officer, how ever. showed him a rule that. ''No stud sat shall be permitted to keep a domestic animal without consent of the facu4ty," and he then argued that boat came nn- der that he'd.
 The Massachusetts total abstinence so- ciety, st a meeting Tn Boston, last week, adopted the following resolutions:
 ResOECed, That inasmuch as women and children are the chief sufferers of the untold evils of intemperance, it is emi- nently appropriate that the female sex should take a most active part in the ef- forts of the day for the suppression of this most universally acknowledged inn morality. and we look with deep interest Oa the wOmen's movement in regard to the temperance reform, and with the hope that divine Providence will direct and Orexrale it for permanent good.
 ResOsued. That, in the opinion of this bo ard no great success in the temperance reform can be expected til the Christian