Litchfield enquirer., 1876-11-30
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Spots on the Freckles on your boys face.
 The first hard money of the country = Wampum.
 The Chinese laundryman is about to in- wade London. s,f Q aas ;
 Song by Mir. Tilden: "It may be four years, it may be for-never."
 The kind of nobleman in present de- mand-An honest count. ..r..
 Our greatest glory is not in never fall ling, but rising every time we fall. Ladies are at loss to know which to carry at this season-muffs or parasols.
 One may talk about his religion so much that he has no time to practice it.
 Venison is only eighteen cents pound in Maine, butts its deer even at that price. ,- -.9 - .s.s. -
 As Thanksgiving approaches, the pious farmer selects his scrawniest turkey, and sets it aside for present to the minister.
 A member of minstrel troupe was re- gently arrested aud fined $5 at Ottawa for singing ''The Wearing of, the Green.
 Life is a stormy and dangerous voyage. The vessel we start in--our cradle-ls childhood's first rock.
 She was plump and beautiful, and he was wildly fond of her. She hated him intensely, but, woman-like, she strove 10 capture him. He was a flea.
 Rochester now boasts of an overgrown hand-organ drawn about the streets by a mule. When the organ gets tired, the mnle warbIes.
 It is stated that 6O,O0O Philadelphia families will break up housekeeping on the first of January and start around the country making Centennial calls.
 Sidney Lanier, the Centennial poet, plays the flute, Whenever he opens the case to take it out he says, .'Come forth, Oh! silver tongue" Fact.
 Germany produces the sharpest pointed needles, it is said, but the difference isn't so great that man who sits down on one can distinguish it from one of American make. t
 Job was aman who digested consider able quantity of misery, but he never knew the utter vanity and vexation of spirit that comes from a continuous wres- tie with the late election returns.- Bridgeport Farmer.
 This is the season of the genuine In- dian summer. It is sad to have been originated by Pocahontas for the pur- pose of giving the average citizen a chance to put off buying his overcoat un- til after he got paid for his vote At bedtime now, after the little Phila- delphia boy has said his ''Now lay me, ' he adds, in truly thankful spirit Ma, ain't glad don't have to sleep out in the shed any more.
 Prof. Tyndall is exhibiting freman's mask which enables the wearer to remain in an atmosphere of heat and smoke with out danger. If a fellow could only take the things of this world along with him. N. y. Express. The Amercan, no matter what may be his station, is determined to rise. Tweed went away in common schooner and re- turned in a great ship, the guest of the greatest nation the sun ere scorched.
 'You write for money, but I write for honor," exclaimed an author in fury of dispute with another author. "Ah! each writes for what he most needs" replied his companion. --= .--, ..~-..s
 s1 would rather vote for the devil than for you, "was what an American sovereign told a candidate Tn Main Street saloon last night 'But in case your friend should not come forward" said the una bashed aspirant for office. might ther count upon your assistance?"
 It was half-past ten as a Ninth street l girl yawned and asked him if he liked poetry. He said, "Yes, dear;" then sh, murmured,
 .Now lay me down to sleep,"-
 and it so disturbed his judgment that h. took the old mans hat instead of hi own.
 Dr. Charming was walking on tn beach at Newport with lady. "When look, said she. "at the sweep of tn ocean and its power, and think of the in finite range beyond, I feel myself s' small as to be all insignificant. Do no vou?" My dear friend" said he, "whel I look at the infinite ocean do not thinl of myself at all" ...
 Last August Dubuque widower pray ed the mourners to nail him up in tn coffin with his dead wife, and then h rode all the way to thegrave in the hearse shrieking and waifing. and jumped in tn grave when the coffin was lowered The, thought his grief would drive him to tll itsane asylum. Day before yesterday b was arrested for bigamy.
 The custom among elderly gen tleme of making a common carrier of the plug hats has become so common that tf spectacle of a respectable elder in churc with red silk handkerchief. two letters a postal card and corner of plug tobac co on his head no longer raises the ghos of smile in the congregation.
 They were giving "Pique" at theatr, Two young ladies having to take the trai at an early hour were obliged to leave b, fore the play was finished, They we,