Litchfield enquirer., 1874-06-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

Several ladies will enter the next class at Bates college.
 The Delaware peach crop is estimated at 6O5, 900 baskets.
 Ethan Allen, the famous trotting stall ion. was sold recently in Kansas for $3,- POO.
 If charity can cover a multitude of sins, 1t may possibly be so stretched as to cover n multitude of opinions.
 The prince of Wales IS in debt $500, ,OOO and wants Victoria to pay it. But H. R. M., does not relish the idea and there are family jars in consequence,
 At New Bedford l, ,65O barrels of sperm oil have just been sold to go to Europe. The entire stock in first hands now in the country is only s,2OO barrels.
 A man in Texas is prouder of his dogs ancestry than of his own. He can trace the dogs pedigree back IA years, and his own only 100.
 A blackbird with three legs has been caught in New Jersey and sent to the Smithsonian; blackleg with three birds has been caught and sent to jail.
 There is vast internal fire raging in- side mountain at lone, Nebraska. Peo- pie who undertake to dig into it only get hot and hotter, until they give It up.
 In Germany, when the vote of the iury stands six against six, the prisoner is ac- quilted. Seven against five leaves the decision to tho court, and by a vote of eight against four, convicts the prisoner.
 A granite statue costing S, 900 was un- yelled at Baskerville, N. H., June IT, to commemorate the wonderful escape of Mrs. Hannah Duston from the Indians in l19I. Some 1000 persons, including Gov ernor Weston, were present.
 An exchange says that crusty old gentleman, not liking the way his landla- dys daughter had of making free with hIs hair oil, filled tho bottle with liuuid glue the day before a ball to which she had been invited, and she stayed at home.
 Crops in southern and western Ken lucky are suffering from the long contin. ned drouth. Only very slight rains have occurred for two months, and the advices indicate that not more than third of the usual crop of tobacco will be gathered.
 National safety paper is the name given to an ingenious and apparently effective paper designed to secure certain protec- ton against fraudulent alterations. The original feature of this invention is that the surface only of the sheet is tinted. the body of the paper being white. This tint IS composed of diluted writing inks hence it follows that any attempt to re move from it ordinary ink lines, such a, signatures, figures, etc., results in the re mOval of the tint also, leaving the surfact that had been tempered with white, ant therefore readily distinguishable. By al ingenious application of the tint, the sur face appears to be composed of closel, ruled lines, and thus its restoration il rendered next to impossible.
 4 JOKE ON Coop TEAfpLARs.-A few days ago tho Good Templars of Savannah Ga-. had a picnic on the beach in the vi cinHty of that city, the ground being reached by somewhat extended trip on steamer. Among the provisions" were Tour casks of iced water upon which the sxcnrsionists relied for the quenchine oi tnarst. tho only beverages allowed being as mntter of course, aqua a,urn. and S1e soothing, but unexhifaratin0 lenaon. ade. At length a suspicious ot1or -,v.s nosaeed to emanate from the cups gobiat. and other articles from which the @h;.s.. Iemplarz qnatfed and eyentuallv if ws, oeclded that tho beverages they were in dulging in had whnt is vulgarly calie,
 'a stick" in them. In fact, some sly on