Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-20
CLIP PINGS,

M. Air is the name of an hotel clerk, and 1t isn't inappropriate @ther.
 When tho young ladies hand you a card nowadays with the cabalistic letters Y. M. 0. A. it means "you may call again. "
 The new Centennial handkerchief is a small American flag. This would seem to involve direct blow ut the stars and stripes.
 Profanity in Texas is against the law, $100 worth each time. They think of en- forcing the lawfor a month and paying the national debt.
 "Mike. and is it yerself that can be afther tellin' me how they make ice crane ?" "In troth I can. Don't they bake them in cowld ovens. to be sure ?"
 The future pitcher and catcher of some champion baseball nine were observed yesterday, practising with half brick done up in an old stocking. This is what may be called the ragged edge of the game. ..-..s.s"-T
 "You must have lived here long time, " said travelling Englishman to an Oregon pioneer. 'Yes, sir, have. Do you see that mountain? We'll, when I came here that mountain was hole in the ground. "
 A Virginian accldently stumbled and fell. A lady, thinking to commiserate with the mishap, observed that she regret ted his unlucky faur-pas. "Ididnt hurt my fore-paws." he replied. ''it was my knee. N # # # A Mark Twain, speaking of new mosqui. to netting, writes: 'The day is, coming when we shall sit under our nets m church and slumber peacefully, while the discom. fted flies club together and take it out oi the minister. ~,rn r~Tt -2 A4 7! This is the kind of weather that makes a man wish either that Adam hadn't been so successful as a backslider, or that some patriot would invent pair of linen trou- sers that button on around the neck and have arm holes.
 ''Man, says Victor Hugo, twas the conundrum of the eighteenth century; wo- centurylii We can't guess her; but we will never give her up. No never. Customer-.'How much for the lilies oi the valley?" Fiorist-"Five .shillings { bunch." Cnstomer-"Too much" !" Florist (blandly)-"Well, madam, if you vii have the lilies of the valley, you must pay the valley of the lilies." (It1<1 :
 'sAh, Jemmy." said a sympathizine friend to man who was just too late fol the train, "you did not run fast enough. "Yes, did, sad Jemmy, "but I didn' start soon enough"
 Two papers in Italy have secured. ani daily. put forth in Aeir prospectus fo, this year. the blessing of his Holiness fol all their, editors, printers, and readers The proof readers are omitted. They ar, beyond the reach of blessings.
 ''Where's the bar ?" asked dirty anf rather boozY looking stranger of the bel boy of the hotel the other day. ssWha kind of bar ?" asked the latter. "Whv a saloon bar, of course; what do you sup pose mean?" "Well," drawled the boy "I didn't know but you might mean bal of soap" ~
 They had a good deal of trouble w;tl the Aztec woman attached to Barnumi circus in Providence. It seems she want ed her salary raised to ST week, bu they told her if they did it she would alst be obliged to appear as the Siberian nal efactor, and she said she would 90 bacl to Limerick first, and take in washing again at two shillings a day, and they were obliged to compromise by bring ing her out as the fascinating Odalisqu, | of the Orient.