Litchfield enquirer., 1874-10-29
Danbury Abroad.
We clip the following from arecent let ter from MT. Bailey to the Danbury News

We clip the following from arecent let. ter from MT. Bailey to the Danbury News. MEALTIMEs.
 The rural people have their meal times at our hours. The supper comes in, as already stated, 9 o'clock, or at the hour the company gets in, if it is at midnight 1t IS always hearty, and consists, quite frequently, of cold meat, fish, bread and butter (precious little butter the English use), salads, hot pickles, tarts and other things calculated to make bilious party go raVing mad in the night. And the whole is topped off with grog and tobacco
 After man has got one of these SUD- pers concentrated in the pit of his stom- ach, he is in a condition to commit almost any atrocity, and goes to sleep very much in doubt if he will awake agaln, and some- what incEning to hope that he will not. If he is not chased by twelve bow legged Holsters with Roman noses, before a. m., he should secure careful examination of himself by competent physician. He is in danger. Speaking to an English friend, l after one of these meals, on the scarcity of butter and fresh bread at the English table, he explained that fresh bread and too much butter disagreed with the stom- ach. l didn't say anything, but looked from the ruins before us up to the clock which marked II p. m.
 The English are very careful of their stomachs. t-.. EYEGLASSES.
 We excel the English in building cars, but they completely distance us in wear ing an eye-glass. It Is not double glass, understand h11& oiI IorvIa T or gold rim, and secured by a cord about the neck, from which it dangles when not in use. It is worn only by the English exquisite, and he generally dons it as he asks question, or on entering a room where there IS anything to see him. Some times It IS suddenly put mp without any apparent provocation. imagine that 1t IS worms. The wearer has baggy cos tune, parts his hair in the middle, and has Ill his face an expression of mild idiocy, which IS much strengthened by the glass.
 He wears 1t in the depression just be- tween the bridge of the nose and the brow of the eye. He places it there without any effort, and holds it by slight de pression of the brow He could carry it more easily under his arm, but he prefers wearing it as l describe; where it rides as | calmly and peacefully as a babe on it's mothers breast, or wet dog on clean ollcloth. Initiative Americans vainly strive to capture the fashion. There was one young man from Marlborough, Mass achusetts, stopping in London last sum mer who devoted three whole months, but Tn vain, to make an eye-glass stay in his eye. l could always tell when he failed, by hearing him howl and swear and kick the furniture. At the end of the three months he went home, as both his time and money were exahusted. When his room was cleaned two full quarts of dam- aged eyeglasses were gathered up. BIOLOGICAL. .4 M. Among the numerous things to which we are accustomed at home, but do not see here, ale surprise parties, clam -bakes eucher, negroes. seven-up, and skunks. have seen less than half-dozen Africans in England and Scotland, and none of the other. inadvertently mentioned skunks at palty one evening, and was obliged to give an elaborate description of the shrub, very much to my embarrassment. find that the ladies here easily tire of the topic, and crave something else do not press 1t upon them.
 I thought. everybody had skunks.