Litchfield enquirer., 1875-04-22
CLIPPINGS

CLIPPINGS
 The worshrgf woman--deuble you, o The latest thing in front door locks nighA ksYs. 1wA4Wu rpRitualists' papers (w,rap- ping paper.
 The Lawrence American calls them ''tOngae-tussles."
 Correctly don't seem like a hard word; yet they all go down because they can't spell correctly.
 Rhode Island bristles with spelling matches. Some of the dictionary words reach clear across theState.
 Party ties-those little white chokers woFn hys blonde gentlemen who part their hair in the middle.
 Now.just as we have learned to read his signature. Spinner must up and resign
 Carlyle is not fit man for census talk er. He says England is populated by 10000, 900 souls-mostly fools."
 St. Louis has ten thousands dogs The natives wear as ecti0n of stovepipe on each leg during the mad dog season
 An Illinois paper has an article headed ''The Dam Questin" but but it is not an account of spelling bee.
 Zion's Herald has an article on "Hind- rances to Faith, though the reader will peruse it in vain for any mention of tight boots.
 Some of the Western papers give long strings of notices of proposed orthograph- ical contests under the head of "Prospec- tive Spellsl" It is said Egypt is the home of the fra grant onion. There is this about the on. ion-you can always tell where it is.
 How true, as Dr Johnson says, that ''every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others and his idleness from himself"
 Don't call on me for three days" is what an Ashland girl posted on the front gate, and she further added: 'Im going to eat some onions this week if I never haye another beau" -r
 The average Gorilla of Central Africa. now points to Stanley and his band of ex- plorers, and pathetically reminds his grandchildren that Git is what they may one day expect to come to-"
 A prominent Detroit Universslist some months ago, married a red-headed widow with four children, and last week remark cd to a friend: "I was blind when be- lieved there was no hell. see now"
 When Q Detroiter was asked the other day by traveller if he had ever been in Brooklyn he hastened to reply: Do I look like one of that sort of men, sir?'
 Every man who mails package subject to the new postage rates drops it into the hole with the wish that Senator Hamlin had to sit for two hours on hot shovel. There is a man in Manayunk wlo has been snatched from a drunkard's grave ninety-nine times, and is now in training for the hundredth snatching.
 Says the Graphic: It is now announi ced that MT Evarts' fee is to be $2O, ,OOO.. Let's see; that will be about six shillings day at present prospects.
 The slender youth who opens the groc- cry store across the way at 5 o'clock every morning desires to be ranked among the (early) rising young merchants of this town.
 don't care much about the bngs:" said Warmly, to the head of a ganteel boarding house, "but the fact is madam. haven't the blood to spare; you see that yourself. IS-s JA&SEI ts5rA "
 London is ahead. It has more Jews than Palestine, more Scotchmen than Ed inburgh, more Irish than Dublin, more Catholics than Rome, and more thieves than Chicago. @ @'-' '-' a- '. '1' @-
 When Western man gets a divorce from q crusading and strong minded wife the papers say, MT So-and -so has resign cd his position as husband for Mrs. So- and-so."
 The Providence Press says It never heard in funeral oration or sermon, and seldom in private conversation, the opin- ion expressed that man with $1O, ,OO0 in- come had gone to hell.
 A River street girl obtained Grants au- tograph. the other day, and now the Pres- ldent receives an average of sixteen letters week from Danbury.
 The Milwaukee Sentinel tries to start a fresh panic by asserting that "four or five children ata single birth are becoming so common that single-seated baby carriages are drug on the market"
 When . common Japanese goes into the presence of an office holder he must say: 'Great and distinguished child of the sun, deign to put your foot upon my neck !" There's some pleasure in holding an office in that country. Bailey of the Danbury News has sim ple way of escaping being talked to death. When he is in his office he puts sign on hIs door Gone sway, which is iagenioua, M mot strictly in accordance with the moral training of his youth. e x ~8 s-t \
 Edgar Poe said: 'sTo villify a great man iaz the readiest way in which little mansoan himself attain greatness. The crab might never have become a consteI- latiQn but for the courage it evinced in nibbling Hercules on the heel"
 Tke most cruel thing that the baggage smaalzeR has yet done. was to break De- trols box directed to the grasshopper sui ferek4, and reveal that it contained only old boots, frozen potatoes, and card in- scrbed, '"The Lord loveth cheerful giv- ~egyR ssi .1s9.. efss3 -l4 >,s.s &qaiet, peacable gentleman in Phila- de1ph1A has recently given up business, sent his family into the country, and calm. ly announCes his determination of devot- ing the remainder of his life to discover. ina the man who sent him paving stone byexpress with ST charges On it. sz-
 Have you any eggs? ''inquired a peace. faI Hooking old man as hs leaned over the counkar of a hardware store recently, ssN0 sir,-this is u hardware store; w keep nails. stoves, &c.,n answered. the clerk. "WeiL Isdid want some eggs slowly dravled the old man, s'but T haini particular. andy ycu may give me . pound ofnazls." .ssas = sss s, is2 .i.s- s.s = 5o 5os
 gmn&glers used Co getin the train a, Geussa Tor Lyons, with their valises full okeisak6 and their pockets full of dirt, linnen. Generally they. got ,a conpart mea6 where fhey were alone. Before they reaehnd thA ffontiers they opened thu euzkfsus Df tho zailway carriage, took out sona6 of tAe Dafled llair. pub in tleif ci