Litchfield enquirer., 1874-10-01
CLIPPINGS.

If you see a policeman aim at a@dog. try tO get near the dog.
 People of good sense are those whose opinion agrees with ours.
 The Hart Manufacturing Company, of Connecticut, dosent engage to repair bro- ken ones.
 When you go a-fishing, be sure and take bite" before you start. for you may not get one after.
 It Is a mistake to send Dr. Aver to Con- gress from the seventh district. It is the sixth that needs purging. .-Boston Herald. ."Of course, We couldn't have him roam ing around here and putting on Congress- Ional airs, says Nevada paper i'll ex- Plaining how horse-thief came to his end
 The editor of a religious paper is mad bee ause he undertook to state that Mir. Sturgeon, in the Sword and Trowel, sad so and so, and the printer called it Shirt and Towel.
 A beggar in Paris had on card asking for subscriptions to enable him to pay his taxes. Perhaps joke, but it took; the people laughed and paid.
 The governor of Alabama has been re- quested by a constituent to find a miss ing wife, who is comprehensively describ- ed Gas mediums sized woman in a calico dress"
 The Western grasshoppers are very reg ular in their habits, eating only one meal a day. This they begin at four o'clock in the morning and continue 1t until the cor responding hour on the following day.
 A Western man set fire to the prairie for fun, but after he had run seven miles and climbed a tree, with his pants about all burned of, he concluded the sport was little too violent exercise to be 1n- dulged in oftener than once in a lifetime.
 Dear George" said an Indianapolis young woman, ''I am willing to marry you if we have to live on bread and wa ter"
 Well" said the enthusiastic George, you furnish the bread and I'll skirmish around and find the water.
 During hurricane ill Kansas, a county treasurer becames exceedinglylsterrified and acknowledged defalcation of $1, 800. Unfortunately tho gale didn't last long enough, and when it quieted down he de- nied the theft.
 An English clergyman exclaimed in a company of his fellow preachers, "Ah well, there is only ono thing in our minis tratiOns more trying to mo than preach Ing. Indeed, they said, "and what may that be?" Hearing any one else preach, he replied.
 When young Greenman wore q tail-coat for the first time, he gave himself awful airs, and wanting to pretend he had an- other party to go to, he approached his hostess, thanked her for the pleasant evening, and was going on with his story when she broke ill with-"Oh, I'm so sor- " you have been sent for so soonv'
 A school girl of one of the rurul dist ricts of Ohio, was nheard trying to con- vince a school boy that she liked him bet ter than she did some other urchin of whom he seemed jealous s'Of course I like you better than I do Bill," said she. ''for don't miss words ill my spelling lesson on purpose, so as to be down to tho foot of the class where you arc.
 The New Orleans Picayune has the fol- lowing notice: '"The young man who came into this office yesterday, sat down on box. and immediately afterwards jumped mp with an unearthiy yell, and fled from the office, is requested to bring back four brass headed tacks that were standing on the box when he took his seat. No questions will be asked.'
 ''Oh, no, dear Charles," said a Balti- more widow to her cousin, on their re- turn from tho obsequies of the lamented 'nothink-no, nothink can e'er assuage Txy R1.AE Rsrk fD. Fas4 l. must live on; and if you could order hall dozen of those nice softshell crabs anG porterhouse beefsterk (rare) from around the corner, will try to be unselfsh fol loves sake.
 An Irish glazier was putting a pane O glass into window, when a groom who was standing by began joking him, tell ing him Co mind and put in plenty of put ty. The Irishman bore the banter fol some time, but at last he silenced his tor mentor with, "Arrah, now, be off wid ye or else I'll put pain in yer head widou any putty.
 The New York court of appeals has de cided that a man has no right to the frui growing upon the. branches overhangin hIs land, where the trunk of the tre stands wholly upon tie land of his neigh Dor. But the law regards the overhang ing branches as 8 nuisance, and they ma he removed as such, or the owner of tn land shaded may remove them, if he careful not to commit any wanton or un necessary distraction in so doing.