Litchfield enquirer., 1874-04-02
CLIPPINGS.

CLIPPINGS.
 A lone man-The pawnbroker.
 The sting of 8 reproach is the truth of
 A bad habit to get into--A coat that is not paid for.
 Indianapolis printers look upon their r0cent strike as typographical error.
 Last week the nation wept over it's it. lustrious dead. Now it is horse-radish.
 New York gets is garden sass from New Jersey. We get ours from the owner of the hens next door.-D. N
 Two Boys-'My father is in the Gus tom House" "Mine's in the station hOuse." ''My father can keep on stealing and yours can't"
 Two little boys were comparing pro- gress Tn the catechism: "I have got to the original sin" said one; "how far have you got?" 'tHe? Oh, I'm way be- yond redemption, " said the other.
 At late conference session a clergy man gave a reason why the Baptist church is like a beavers hut: ''There is only one entrance to it and that is under wa ter.'
 After recent election, defeated can- tidate was approached and asked how he felt. He replied: "I. fell pretty much as Lazarus did; he was licked by dogs and so was l.
 They tell about man in Maine who refused to get up and build fire, and his wife said she shouldn't, and so they remained in bed thirty hours before the matter was settled
 Never burn kindly written letters. the mute utterances of those afar vet dear whose faces you may never look upon again. Remember how many little mo- ticn m tin-ware they will procure.-D. N
 Before the stout English Princess Mary became the Princes of Tieck, her friends tried to get mp match between her and Victor Emmanuel He came over to sec her, and after the interview exclaimed: Why that woman would sit on the seven hills of Rome at once"
 Not far from this city" writes Cleve- land correspondent, Hives a gentleman who IS the father of seven grown-up daughters. They are rather lively girls. The father is an admirer of Hawthorne.
 
 Seven Gabblers.'
 How IS this for Boston? A young lady on Fremont street was, the other evening, heard to say in answer to the question, Well, Jennie, how did you like Charles kingsleyis lecture?" 60, very much in deei. but think like his novels best. especially the Terrible Temptation.
 An Aberdeen minister. catechizino his young parishioners before the congrega- ton, put the usual question to a stout gIrI, whose father kept a public-house i: What IS your name?'' "Nane O your fun. Mir. Minister; ye ken my name we'll enough. Dye no say when ye come to our house, Bet, bring me some ale.'"
 rather conceited young man shook hands with Colonel Blanchard in the post office, on Sunday evening, and told the Colonel he had been away. "Why I didn't know if, said the Colonel, who, as our readers remember, is a trife deaf. When did you go?" ''Two weeks ago." said the pOmpous young gentleman. 1T must be getting pretty deaf" said the Colonel, 'fOr didn't hear you leave."- n. "
 Queen Victoria IS credited with an amusing and amiable witticism. Some "ne at the court had spoken disparaging- iy COf cOursel of the hostile criticisms pronunced by Sir Charles Dilke on the civ1 list ''It is strange" the queen is said to have replied, ssfor I remember having hlm as boy on my knee and stroking his hair" 'I suppose" added her majesty, after a moments pause. 1T must have strOked it the wrong way"
 The Danbury News closes its notice of Thomas Orchestra as follows:
 There IS one man, to be sure. who wears green blind on his ught eye, but as his head is frequently buried in tho bowels of a partly inverted brass kettle whose contents he vigorously prods with a pad ded stlck he should hardly be mentioned 1afsvOrably; and even his infirmity is en- tErely lost m the wonderful array and EzztchlesS performance of the violin bows. So peTfect was their action, so sweet and aspiring were the tones brought from the sO2g tAln cords over which they swept in Eag1c czrcAeS, that we do not believe we shall ever again meet cat without rais- lng cur hat m reverential welcome.
 The Hon Henry R. Pease. the newly eAcc4ed United States senator from Missis- @=&x~w@@ NA<-cNG4ASz0 tue EDuol0 SCOCk, Aas father Syfvanus having been born in Sc1eES The genealogical history of the E<z1ly. known as the ''Pease Kecord'' lssAd hy L. H. Tease. M. D., of Thomp- soZS1EAe- Conn }. says of the new senator: Ike entered the service, musket in hand. zz2 ~@S Ea active service through the sSege O1 RcE4 H1dson- He afterward rose ss pgslEsc@s oT honor and trust. and he @zS Sled the cfkces of assistant provost z3zz<A1l =a3 assistant judge advocate gen. sz4A Ia November, fS55, he held the of ase Of general superintendent of educa EsSz fCr Ee12gees and freedmen in the z@Eas d LsOalSaxna with the rank of cap- s<zz Has O2scs WAS one of large respon- sSsE&Eys Gs Ae kad nearly twenty thousand cAsA2rez wAo were UaciTing instruction in srAzsass 0f Azs eSzsblSShlng" It also says ES gEx23EzzAzr, Emery Pease. sswas one ~E tAe Ers& tO rally at the cali of his coun- sEw ss 3sSe@3 StS liberties He marched sS B1z@S1 9a the first alarm in the Reyo- er<nsG- Ss the head of seventy volunteers Eum kS< t1El ESOners), and was more or AesS EuEHEe1 zs a c2psaIn of a militia