Litchfield enquirer., 1875-05-20
CLIPPINGS.

There is no luck like pluck.
 Staying business making barrels. Battle of Lexicon-A spelling match. A poor relation-telling an ancdotee badly.
 When a man over-estimates himself, he does it thoroughly.
 In giving people piece of your mind, don't break the peace. ...-.. As you cannot avoid your own company make 1t as good as possible.
 An Indiana paper talks knowingly of "Tom Burns, the peel" .-s- - -'- Beware of harmony. The revolutionary fights began in Concord.
 Why is a side-saddle like a four-quart jug? Because it holds a gallon.
 A Memphis paper defines advertising to be "blister which draws trade. s The heart is pump and a woman may always be found at the handle.
 The Mohammedans believe that old maids have no chance of heaven.
 Att recent spelling match one man speit 1t ''pasnip and got beet. ... ..>. High-toned Boston society has gone back to bedcords and bedposts.
 What is it that has mouth and never speaks, bed and never sleeps?-A river. It is said that the Digger Indians are never known to smile. They are grave Diggers.
 Don't take off your fanneis too early. Funerals are inconvenient about house. cleaning time. eyts us1se t.8A s The majority of men are more apt to be honest when they know they are we'll watched.
 An old lady advises young girls who want to remember thing to write it on the looking glass.
 The ..spelIozotic" is what the Boston Globe calls the organized attack which has been made on the English language. The Rev. W. H. H. Murray is | preparing re to celebrate the horsepicious event of his thirty-ffth birthday. n ,--4 sss1-is $. I9s PreO0cious boy maunehing lthe fruit ot the date tree: Mamma, if I eat dates enough will grow up to be an almanac, :, Truth is good dog: but beware of bark. ing too close to the heels of an error. lest your brains get kicked out .+- ..1s The articles that come from the brain oi Carruth, the Vineland editor, will inva. riably be leaded hereafter aasa szs- ss.s Don't discuss the testimony with cai in your lap, or if you will do it, don't get 90 excited as to rub the animals back the wrong way. It is noted that all great hunaorists are sober and ssdates with melancholy cas. of countenancs. It is rather serious busi. ness to befunny.7rn9 yrtyv fer 5g9TI ''Meat me ct the spelling match 4, Muesic hall, was the invitation written probably by one who stepped down. and out on the hfzt round. z E@s 2 1o N The difference between @ tale-bearer an6 sealing-wax is, that sealing-wax burns te keep . secret and the tale bearer burns to tell one.
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 The i0urnalists will have some work say. e1 Tor them iu writing an account of the 1ssn Q. June ecelentat1on. U tThereisla col umn already set up on Bunker Hill
 A Binghamton man passed a counter .sss 0ln ee church fair. It is doubtfu s ssner Ss Peter will pass that Bingham
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