Litchfield enquirer., 1876-02-17

Jail. Nothing could have been said against the quality of the clay had 1t been properly baked; but the baking of the brick was ascomplete failure. A majority of them looking as they now appear, like a piece of dried clay. Some of the best ones were put on the outside of the wall, while the slack baked ones were put on the inside, which accounts for the inside ~hrick cEnmhlipG tQ pieces, ,st4..s... Now the real fact Is that this old struc- ture has had its day long ago. it having stood nearly seventy years, disappointing its very inventors and builders as tradi- ton says one of the builders said, ''those walls will not stand ten years"
 The Winsted Press has capital account of the Hilton lecture. We make the fol- lowing extracts
 "He is maiesticalIy tall and on the occa- sion wore a suit of black with dress coat Ehuttoned tightly around him. His hair is naturally light and at present the ''silver threads among the gold show age, trouble, the effect of early piety, or poor kind of hair dye. As he sat there so dignifed and imposing it was difficult to imagine him the same hysterical being that wandered over the Tilton home in his night shirts | hanging pictures or selecting comfortable 1 beds in various places; that called mother in-law Morse irreyerent names and kissed indiscriminately men. women and children who came to be his guests, and we even doubt that he is the same, though he goes | bv the same name. At first his gestures and postures were awkward in the | extreme His legs bent under him and he twisted his long body around like an awk- ward school boy, but he soon seemed to gather strength and courage and eloquence from his evidently sympathetic audience, and then began ''feast of reason and flow ! of soup that has never been equaled to our knowledge in this village" 3 -e
 j. THE SoIRRRL PUzzLE.-The Winsted Herald and other papers are busy with this centennial puzzle: ''A. trees squir- rel and goes repeatedly around the tree but the squirrel hitehes around 1t also so as always to keep the body of the tree between himself and A. Does A. go around the squirrel" We should answer in the negative for following reasons ::
 The case is precisely that of two balls fastened to each end of stick, say yard Elong, and revolving about pivot running through the stick. The pivot may be in the center of the stick. in which case the balls will revolve in common circle: it may be an inch from the center, in which case the ball at the longer end of the lever will describe a, circle two inches outside that made by the other ball; or, it may be but an inch from one of the balls. in which case the outer ball will describe circle 70 inches in diameter, the other circle but two inches across. In every instance, how eyer, the balls will Ego around" the pivot
 but never one around the other. Only in
 case the pivot is driven through one of the balls can the other be properly said to go
 around it. d Or, taking another Mustra-
 ton, if A. and B. start at opposite sides of
 our Central Park and preserve their rela-
 tive positions. .one will never go around the
 other, though the circle described by A.
 is foot or two outside that described by
 B.. Suppose however, that A. walks around every three minutes; B every four
 minutes. In twelve minutes A. will have
 walked four times around the flag pole
 but only once around B. .,-