Litchfield enquirer., 1875-04-15
CLIP PINGS

All small children are subject to prema. ture badness.
 It is better to be an April fool than an aIl-the-year-'round fool.
 sign of Spring is out in the fact that hands are thawing out of overcoat pock- cts.
 Dr. Holland CTimothy Titcomb) is Iec- turing on ''The Jews" They grin and bear it. rs F5s sr -
 Lady, with all thy faults l love the stiH, as the man said to his wife when she was giving him curtain lecture. People who travel barefooted around q newly carpeted bedroom often find them selves on the wrong tack. , .....
 Miss Eastman, in her woman sufferage argument up the State House, used the simile: "eyes as bright as buttons on an- gels coats,"
 'Sare, said Frenchman. wishing to display his knowledge of the English Ian- guage, "did it rain tomorrow" ssYes 6are. was the equally bombast;c rep1y,- ':yes. Sare. it vos." E8% Hf Lecturers on the Holy Land are trying to choke 1t down their hearers that Shu- sham IS & religious community; but we know where our boots came from.
 Rubinstein will be in Paris about the 20th, to direct the performance of the rover ot Babel" Each musician will sing in different language.
 When the postmaster of Vicksburg was on his dying bed the other day, twenty eight men hurried past the House with petitions praying that they might be post mHsseFaG4 M %tt1sA 2ats k$4E That Baltimore girl worth sixty thousand dollars, who wants to marry & young me- chanlc, IS referred to we'll known Dan- bury man-the inventor of the Magic On ion Peeler.
 Hannibal Hamlin is the man who is re- sPonsible for doubling the postage on transient newspapers. When he dies, lit tie 0oys will stick two cents stamps all
 'f''one \" et sFEb ss Mark Twain says that since he has be- come dirctor in an accidental insurance company. the Hartford, ''accidents have assumed kindlier aspect. look upon a cripple now with affectionate interest, as an advertisement. To me there is a charm about a railroad collision that is pnspeak- 
 The custom of eating fish on Fridays ana m Lent IS derived from tha old pagan notion that fish were sacred to Aphrodite. tne foam born goddess, and to the Ro- man Venus. Hence the custom grew of eating fish on Friday, the day of Frega, and m spring, the season sacred to the goddess of Hove. -
 Roherk Dala Orvon ra;torotos hi, ho1;oe that some of the Holmes manifestations were genuine, notwithstanding their Ka- tie Hing farce. He is like the country man who saw magician put a penny tnrough board, and when the operator sald 10 vas only deception, he exclaimed, "You lie, you know you put it through D Two sailors were, on a certain occasion. passing St. Paufs Cathedral, on which they observed some statues.
 'What are them 'ere things ?' said one of the sailors to the other, as they were rolling by, under press of canvas. Why, them chaps are the twelve apost- les. to be sure" 3TT7~ ~g. T~1
 ''But there's only six of them ''A '>
 "Why, you lubber, they stand watch. You don't suppose they would be all on deck at once, do you 2"
 '.Hoswodid you feel, my dear.if we trw were to meet wolf?" asked an old lady of her little grandchlld, with whom she was walk ing along lonely country road. "Oh, grandmamma, I should be so frighten- cd ! Mas the reply. "Bnt Iwould stand in trontof you and protect you, said the old lady: "Would you, grannie ?' cried the That would be nice While I the wolf Slfe was . eating v0u swaxxld hava 4;rn, 4o -..u away.
 Anan a GHEaiasl Rssaaa ! OcS5ssmpg .,oeD, inthe hands. When she sees him take, his ooat-sail to hold a stove-lid litter, she punhem 1him ayaE m sdisgust, and takes the hot object in her bare hand withoutlwinc ing. If he should do that, he would dror 1t at once, and couldn't help it. When he has a dish to lift from the stove, he .very properly starts of to hunt up a cloth, and While he IS gone she removes it with hel naked hand, and is there ready to say things that make him feel small and worth. less. whenqha gets back Dara6asy Neus
 The other day, on the Seventh avenue car lines, a scene ensned between the con ductor and . vell-dressed young man. As the car was passing up the avenue. the young man Ut the time taking it easy, with one foot on the trunk. was approached by Q conductor, and his fare demanded. He quistlY passed over his five cents.
 Oondlceer: T demand twenty-five cents for fhak trnnk." Young man hesitatingly9 Tventy. nve centsg Vel, | think will not pay E. sllillI11 Gflnu0TTE31
 Condpetor; 'sThen l shall put the, trunk
 Young man: "You had better not. O, you may be sorry for it."
 Conductor pulls strap, stops car, dumps