Litchfield enquirer., 1876-10-26
CLIPPINGS

:, The ice man must make room for the coal cart.
 A China set may contain seventy pieces, or only forty, just according to the sort of hired girl you have around the house.
 That Troy widower who slept on his wife's grave during June is married again and the grave is all covered with weeds.
 The most bitter piece of satire on man generally affects him least. It is written and composed after his death, and is com- monly known as ''an obituary notice" /"
 Dissatisfaction seems to be pretty gen- e1al over the fact that there is, as yet, no reduction in the price of school'Oooks, but the continued high price of whiskey is submitted to without a whimper.
 "It may be very we'll, Mir. Henry" said John's wife the other day, ito stay out half the night working for the glo- rious democratic cause; but if the demo- cratic party left that long yellow hair and that big grease spot on your new black vest it ain't the kind of a hair-pin take it for. ."-Boston Globe.
 We incidentally remarked yesterday morning that the secret societies In town meet only once week and close at 10 p. m., and during the day twenty three mar ried men came in and stopped their sub. scriptlons on the ground that the politi- cal conduct of the paper was ad-Nor- a0ich Bulletis.
 The acute and quick witted Rev. Lemu. el Haynes, of Vermont. we'll known years ago throughout New England, was once saucily accosted by an imprudent trifer with the question, "Mr. Haynes, how old do you suppose the devil is?" "You must keep your own family record" was the immediate response.
 Different people are differently affected by the Centennial exhibition. One Dan- bury lady who devoted several days to the examination, on returning to her home, impulsively said
 "Myl you ought to've seen the jewell | ry!"-Nea0s.
 The effusiveness of some of the misses of this happy republic of onrs has a fine l illustration in the following extract from letter of young lady of New York; "Oh, how pleased we were to drive from the restraints of the city into the free and open air! Every thing looked So nice and beautiful, and. oh! if you had only enjoyed the fragrance of the roses in full bloom! We were so eager to sniff the de light that keen. long smell actually pulled up tte more delicate fotOers bs the roots."
 Paul was won't to pray to be delivered from unreasonable men," There are, in. deed, not few of this sort in the world, and they are often quite enough to vez the patience of an all-enduring Job. They remind us of preacher who once labor. ed Tn Northern Vermont. He was not lacking in earnestness, but was most yex atiously impracticable. On certain oc I casion, after the patience of his presiding elder had been taxed to it's utmost by hii contumaciOusness. said presiding elder exclaimed, Brother As undoubtably a good man, but pray to be permitted never to meet him again tt,atil I meet hin I isa heGUea."
 CURIOUS -EPITAPH.- John Trollop Knight, is said to have had grave dus for himself. some years before his disease in the chancel of church built at his ex pense. By the side of the grave wat placed his own figure in marble, with his right hand pointing to the building, and his left to the grave. On his breast were painted the following lines
 I, Sir John Trolop,
 l Made these stones roll up: | When God shall take my soul up l My body shall fill that hole up. 1 Miss Abbie J. Terry is writing in the New York World to terrify young men in to never staying later with their sweet. heart than half-past ten, P. M. Hear the woman When Miss Terry's own young man, who is now living in Burlington un. der an assumed name, told us himself that he ran away and came west because, when he got sleepy and tried to go home at S:35 A. M, six times week, Miss Ter. I " would cling to his collar and say, 'Oh, Englebert, why flee from my side so earlyi l Why can't you stay to breakfast ?- Bur. l hngton Hasok-Eye.