Litchfield enquirer., 1875-02-11
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 He who leaves early gets the best hat.
 Living on excitement is very expensive living.
 The oldest western settler-The evening sun.
 Home stretch-The stretch across the maternal knee.
 A noisy piece of crockeyy-the cup tiiat cheers Rb skatS 5El H
 Where to go when short of money-go towork.
 The learned pig didn't learn it's letters in day: 5. .a-. r .@.
 There seems to be tidal wave of chick en stealing just now.
 Would that collecting bills were as easy as making them out! }fts 8t
 Preferred creditors-Those who don't press theIr bills just now.
 Pride sleeps in a gilded crown; content ment in a cotton nightcap.
 Alfonso may govern Spain, but who will govern Alfonso?
 The poorest income on which married couple can live is -patibility.
 Amau's virtues are not to be measured by the length of his funeral procession.
 It is better to be alone in the world than to bring mp boy to play on the accorde- on.
 Some mourn more the shame which sin brings, than the sin which brings the shame.
 A good name will wear out; bad one may be turned; nickname lasts forever.
 A book has been published called "Half Hours with insects" The author was not a regular boarder.
 Men who travel barefooted around newly carpeted bed room often find them selves on the wrong tack.
 Epitaph on the death of a very dirty man, Another land mark gone"
 With little energy and 8 few patent office reports every town could have public library.
 The Santa Cruz Sentinel compares that town to ''th9 dimple on beauty's cheek" More cheek than dimple, probably.
 Doctrines are of use only as they are practiced. Men may go to perdition with their heads full of truth
 "You are too pert entirely, Miss" said ateacher to pupil. "Your whole de- meanor is a continuous misdemeanor"
 ''What station do you call this?" said a man, as he crawled out of the debris of railroad smash-up. Devastation, repli- ed the conductor. Congress has a cemetery of it's own, and, having far more criminals than corpses, it IS strange it doesn't have penitentiary of it's own, also.
 Mir. Bergh denies the report that he is about to cause the arrest of several large firms for bottlIng cats-up.
 "How many people" says Jeremy Tay- Tor. "are busy in this world gathering to- gether handful of thorns to sit upon !"
 They say that Winnie Ream warbIes like canary. She ought to sing well-there are twenty choirs in Ream. "Ah, parson, I wish could take nv gold with me, said dying man to his | pastor. 'It might melt,' was the consol- l ing answer. There are five young women in the | Maine Agricultural College. Husbandry is very proper study for young women. No human being can cut a pie into six pieces and convince six children that one of their number hasn't got piece just trifie the largest.
 The obituary notice of much respected lady concludes with-"1n her life she was pattern worthy to be followed; and her death-oh, how consoling to her friends" There's where man has the advantage. He can undress in cold room and have his bed warm before a woman has got her hair-pins out and shoes united.
 Why are sheep the least moral of ani- mals Because they gambol in their youth spend much of their time on the turf. many of them are blacklegs, and they all get heeced at last.
 A Cleveland youth of rather fast pro- clivities fell in love with a parsons dauob. ter, and as q clincher to his claims. said to the reverend gentleman, "I go my bot tom dollar on piousness.''
 The world has been compared to look ing-glass which gives back every man tbe reflection of his own face. Brown at it. and 1t will turn and look sourlv at you laugh at 1t and with it, and it is jolly. kind companion.
 When Jemima went to school she was asked why the noun bachelor was sineu- lar. Because" she replied, fit is so ye. " singular that they don't get married" man who was sentenced to be hung dear, would you like the children to see you executed?" "No, replied he. "That's just like you, said she; "for vou never wanted the children to have any eniov- ment." A lady who went West in search of be- 1 husband writes home that she has attep d. ed many executions and witnessed "sav- efal unfortn nit souls hung but no ne of them was her John" VI Anna Dlckinson's debut as an actress i, the spring is set down as fixed. The Gloha theater, Boston, and Joan of Arc are named as place and character. When George III, was once exnrass;n,. hls admiration of General Wolfe so,,,e one observed that the General WAS mad Oh, he IS mad, is he ?" said hha k;ns. with great quickness. "Then wish E. would bite some of my other. generals" he" marriage law of Germany l whiie It necessitates a civil ceremony fo pc legal, does not debar the privilege of s }. church service. In Berlin, since tRe lar has gone into operation, less than ar fourth of the Protestant men and vo, , @ married have had a religious cere, nonn .nen performed nony | A Jealous vegetarian expoanding his tbe. ory said: "A man who eats DOT: hao..s- a.s sne little swinish, does he not? aD ;fha oomes auaes mutton he is inclined to be sbaan;sh eS's Ferhaps SC" replied the late Dr. sI Wait- CT, as quoted. "bnt have not;cad tna1 men who live on vegetables are ant to 'Ial ha rather--small-pot ~P' 'o oe