Litchfield enquirer., 1874-11-05
CLIP PINGS.

Long division-Divorce.
 Hub bub-A Boston boy. ..f.-...
 Brokers generally hold loan hand.s
 Who can speak all languages?-Echo.
 A bob tailed dog is curtailed, isn't he?
 Can you spell consent in three letters Yes.
 An era unknown to yoman-The mid dle ages.
 When pockets are lowest new bonnets are highest. Miss Vein has been turned into Water by marrying him. '-.
 Who is the oldest lunatic on record?- Time out of mind.
 You must not make game of those birds on ladies hats.
 Speaking out of the nations Wards Ar temus was one of them.
 Children born with auburn locks are genererally redheaditary. aa
 AWiconsin man has invented q new par by which person can sit facing the bow while rowing. ...r
 It's a curious and significant fact that to-day old Babylon and Nineveh are light ed with American petroleum.
 A Boston man lost $1 900 and offered $9O0 reward if the finder would restore if, but the finder wouldn't do it.
 Young gentlemen attending school Ill Texas are allowed two hours a day to per feet themselves in pistol practice. la.1
 The most unpopular man in the ceun- try at this season is said to be the man who saws his wood too long for his neigh- bors stove.
 In Montana, when an editor is crowded for room, he announces, "A number of deaths are unavoidably postponed"
 Parson Brownlow used to frank about 5000 worth of mail matter iE q year, and now he doesn't use over two postage stamps per week. --'''
 If you want to efectua1ly shut up an advocate of the eight hour movement, ask him if he proposes to allow his wife the same hours. -. -,.s.. .4..-
 Miss Florence, eldest daughter of The odore Hilton, has begun, under appoint ment, to teach in a Brooklyn public school, She is to make her home with her father. ...L
 A Missouri doctor couldn't tell arsenic from chalk until one of his patients died, and now he doesn't doctor any more. The crowd left him in placid pond.
 The son of an editor in Pennsylvania has been recently convicted of arson, be- ing prompted to commit the crime by a desire to make interesting local news for hia fathers paper. -. ... ..d, sls-
 A Michigan marksman simultaneously slew seven bobcats by the single dis charge of his breech loader. The people of the Reighborhood imagined for several days afterwards that they were living in Cincinnati. a-. ... a.9eues vlIs.4
 Out in Wisconsin horse kicked and killed book agent, whereupon the citi- zens made donation party for the horse, and now he have oats enough to last hima full horse life time. u,s.f t..5.
 70 Lord, prayed Methodist minister. keep me humble and poorP 70 Lord, If Thou wilt keep him humble, said the deacon who next prayed, "we shall see to it that he is kept poorl' s-, ,, .ggybs a.,
 A little girl in Boston, only five years old, said to her mother the other day. when she proposed reading to her the last number of the Nursery: .No, mamma; don't read me that chilish stuff; read me about the Beeeher case."i f4i sp bHs 75-
 ''Sad thing to lose your wife, z said a friend to Vermonter who stood at the grave of his wife. ''Well, toIerably sad" replied the mourner, 'but then her clothes es just fit my oldest girl. 7 c.si s.I sa- as.