Litchfield enquirer., 1875-04-08
CLIPPINGS.

The father of all corns--pop.corn.
 Advice (gratis) to the Dyspeptic-Chew and eschew.
 New Bedford has but one whaler left a schoolmaster.
 To maEs c tall man short--try to bor- row five dollars of him.
 Uncle.-''How did the mother of Moses hide him?' Niece.-''With a stick a The public debt of France now amounts m round numbers to $4, 500, 100000.
 The spelling furore demonstrates how little Americans Noah Webster.
 A grabbed fellow Says that he always looks under the marriage head for the news of the weak
 Boys, what is d stratumP" "A layer" Mention an example," "A hen." 'Yes and ship; she lays to-
 A New Haven man, aged seventy-fiye. has drank 10000 worth of gin in his life time. -&&slA Afs. @& t 0A A .#@ ~@ "There! that explains where my clothes line went to!" exclaimed an Iowa woman. as she found her husband hanging in the stable
 "It isn't loud praying which counts with the Lord so much as giving four full, quarts for every gallon" says an Arkansas circuit rider.
 A Chicago deputy sheriff was refused free admission to a Chicago theatre. Bv way of revenge he impanelled the mana ger on petit jury.
 
 An Illinois judge has decided that young man who pays his board has a right to fiddle in his room all day and all night if he choose.
 Mir. Talmage preached against the opera. and the organist played from Irovatore whlie the ushers were taking up the col lection. e-
 "Will the boy who threw that pepper on the stove please come up here and pet a present of a nice book" said Sunday school superintendent in Iowa; but the boy never moved. He was a far-seeing boy.
 A country pastor said to one of his fem mine congregation: Are you happv?" ''Yes, sir, she replied; ''I feel as though were in Beelzebub's bosom" Not in Beelzebub's?" Well, some of the Pa triarchs; don't care which. % -A t$
 The ghost of Noah Webster came to q spiritual medium n Alabama, not long since. and wrote on q slip of paper: ssIt is tite times" Noah was right. but we are sorry to see he has gone back on his dic- tionary. 39fk TfHT TMkk4 4lES 4 One of the girls at Vassar keeps up her studles. keeps track of eight love stories Tn weekly papers. writes twice week to IL. ciety and finds time to ride and skate and practice for concert ry-T l.1-- - -
 There are young men who cannot hold a wincing, but will hold 125 pounds of a neighboring family for the best part of the night with a patience and docility that are certainly phenomenal H ahr
 Rousseau once wrote, F.If it were only necessary for you to hold out your thumb m order to cause the death of an immense ly wealthy mandarin in China. whose heir you would be, are you sure that you would not extend your thnmb?" s.osaosIA
 Half Q dozen Harvard sophomoras made bet of wine supper that they corld pass entirely through the Fifth Ward of Boston on St. Patrick's Day with orange ribbons in their huttonholes. When they were nearly through, Q crowd pitched into them. but they ran in the direction they had started, and won the bet. ....
 A party who vas looking at a house in the Sixth Ward the other day, said he couldn't afford to pay so much rent. Well, look at the neighborhood, replied the woman. "You can borrow fiat-irons next door, coffee and tea across the street, four and sugar on aths corner, and there's a big pile of wood belonging to the school house right across the aileyr'-D Detroit Free Press. .Ea-E. lwuy sZnx E-x 9sn A farmer having buried his wife, waited upon the grave digger who had perform ed the necessary duties, to pay. him his Ices Being of a niggardiy disposition he snaeasorea te astthe knight of thespade. lstser being ekhsnsted he grasped his shovel impalsively. and with an angry :C1. exclaimed: rDoon wi ahother s{1ii. nm, or upshe camesi'' The threat -had the desired effect. 9fase 8as- NsssE EAaNA T
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