Litchfield enquirer., 1875-03-04
CLIPPINGS

Wine improves with age, but kisses 1 don't.
 In regard to the tax on whiskey, that's easily reetified.
 These stormy Sunday evenings are weak ening the coal bins of families with inter- estiBg daughters.
 The song of the Washington youth-''I want to be lobby man and in the lobby stand, with brass upon my forehead and greenbacks in my hand"
 A Kentucky paper speaks of man who had a narrow escape from a sun stroke, he having stood only two feet from a man l who was struck.
 Speaking of inferences,'' said Judge Lord, of Boston. ''when we see a crowd at the Charlestown Navy Yard. we infer. not that there is to be war, but an election. i"
 All the axes and buck-saws found in the 1 ruins of Pompei are of light make, as if constructed for woman's use. Those old ancients knew their little business. ''Papa, are you growing taller all the time?' ''No. my cEild; why do you ask?" "Cause the top of your head is poking up sAAOu8A youA A01A
 Petersham has produced an auctioneer who tells the truth. He recently told a bidder: You've got good bargain on that sleigh you bid off for S25O. It is just as good for the hens to roost on as one that costs $60"
 Woman does 8 great deal to discourage lofty sentiments of patriotism. When l man Is leaning over the back fence telling a neighbor how he would shed his last drop | of blood for suffering Louisiana, it dis turbs him to have his wife yell from the kitchen: "Look here! are you coming with that bucket of water. or shall come out and see to you?"
 From the Danbury News:
 There is no excuse for people being late at church, unless it is something new.
 The bright sunshine of Thursday brought out the songsters,a a pair of crows and hand-organ,
 Anything to beat Satan, was the leg end suggested to Danbury politician asked to name something appropriate as an inscription on banner for Young Mems Christian Association.
 You can tell very nearly how much stock an agrieulturist keeps, by standing with him over register.
 Many of our mills and all of our tenn perance socleties are running on half time, owing to scarcity of water.
 A soft-hearted Danbury man has twelve eggs under one hen. The eggs are cover ed with cloth, so not to chill the hen.
 A dog howled half an hour for a death in front of an Elm street house before he discovered that it was Q vacant tenement. Then he left, very mnch mortified.
 We understand (now that Lent has come) why many of our people would not put ashes on their sidewalks. Danburi- ans may run short on sackcloth, but they have got lat thing in the way of ashes.
 No man shows his lnsignifcance and utter uselessness about the house to such 2 degree as when his wife is hopping up. He feels this, and 30 does she, and he knows she feels ii, which is worse still. 10 offer an adverse remark on such an occasion is about as insane an enterprise as an individual can empark upon. But Patch street man did it, Saturday. His wife was hopping the kitchen floor. and he was moving about the room to keen out of the way of the wet mop, when he unhappily observed, that that vasn't the way his mother did it It was done in . flash. TAere was @ sharp report as if three pounds of very wet and dirty cloths had settled across . human face. and in the same instant . man went over chair.; and half way under table, looking very much as if a mud volocano had licked him in the head. s1- -5-s--'s7 ,