Litchfield enquirer., 1876-11-23
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Always in debt when there is no neces- sity for it-The letter B.
 An epitaph on a negro baby begins: Sweet, blighted lily P.
 When is candle like & tombstone? when it is put up for late husband?
 Those who come to you to talk about talk about you. Ole Bull and wife are all right, spite of numerous paragraphs and appearances. But there is a mother-in-law.
 After demolishing the houses of the mine managers in North Wales, the riot ous colliers went home singing. ''Safe in the arms of Jesus"
 The annual income of London charities, is about S12,000,0 900. Two thirds come from contributions, and the remainder from investments.
 A Connecticut man who went to the Black Hills only last summer, has already got a steady position. He is in 8 wood en box, four feet under ground, with hls name and age and things on the sign board.
 Alittle girl. four years old, created ripple by remarking to the teacher of her Sunday School school class; "Our dogs dead. I bet the angels was scared when they saw him coming up the walk. He is cross to strangers" tf 5 a@
 'tWhat is heavens best gift to man?" asked young lady on Sunday night. smi- ling sweetly on pleasant looking clerk" "A hoss," replied the young man with great prudence.
 One night we were sitting ont-of-doors sad. Suddenly some one "a poetic look ing man-with gentle, lovely face-said in low tone; Did you ever tkink of the beautiful lesson the stars teach us?" We gave a vague appreciative murmur, but some soulless clod said; "No, what is it?" '.How to wink" he answered, in his sad. sweet voice.
 Edith (that dreadful young flirt)-Do vou know, COZ, I think shall marry!" Cousin( with designs in that quarter him. self)-"Reallvl You amaze me Soon? , Edith-well, perhaps in month or two" happy man?" Edith -'"The what ?" Cousin-''Ths man, the-er-vhat is it?-the 1ntended?''. Edith-"Ah, by the way-yes-I must begin to think of that. too, mus nt 1. /"
 Danbury Bailey says that two days after he lectured in Boston, the United States Treasury received $18.50 consci- euce money from Boston man. It would hardly pay the Government to employ Mir. Bailey to lecture in the different cit- Snui iK,k rnin L~ ;o kn talk for twelve dollars a night, or make it an hour longer. A longer discourse might move the conscience of men who owe the Government five hundred dollars and upwards.
 Copley's portrait of Gen. Warren, the original MS. of Warren's Address-writ- ten Tn a neat round hand-and his sword ''of Bunker Hill," are among the chief treasures of the Revolutionary Relic" exhibition just opened in the Old South graced also by Rembrandt Peale's DOT trait of Washington, and by relics of Re- were, and of the Qnincys, Adamses, and other Revolutionary dlgnitaries. Boston writers on the exhibition note that it was through the window of this old church that Warren leaped to the platform where he gave his famous address on British policy--the doorway and the church being crowded with angry British soldiery.
 From the Danbury News :: @
 In writing to one whose letter you have long delayed to answer 1t is we'll to charge the correspondent with not having an- swered your last letter.
 The young men of Beyrout appear to take naturally to journalism. They have formed an association, each member of which pledges himself not to tell lie.
 According to his wife, Sherman man saved fifty. dollars in rather neat way. He was going to spend that amount in a visit to the Centennial, but died instead.
 You don't know what you missed by not going to the Centennial" said an en- thusiastic Danhury man, to another.
 ''Then I am glad didn't go" was the reply of the phlegmatic neighbor.
 MT. Tupper comes straight from Eng land. and says he is struck by American good manners as observable in railway travel" Mir. Tupper must have been rid ing on freight train.
 To get home from the grandeur and majesty of the Centennial exhibition on Friday night, and go to beating a carpet the next morning, is contrast which. the strongest mind wavers before.
 An apprentice in Danbury drug store got very good idea of business, Saturday ! evening, by descending in a sitting pos- ture from a step ladder upon & glass ves- sel of colored liquid and eight fancy toilet sets. He is to work in @ tan-bark mill now. He says it isn't such a nice busi- ness as-drugs, but he can move around | with more confidence.
 When a man on 6 Monday morning emerges from the cellar with hod of coal and two washtubs, his wife notices the absence of another article and gravely ob. serves: t'There, you've forgotten the wash bench an'll have to go back after it. When sOiu you learn to let your head save your heels?"
 Americans are not prone to take advice. But when some one suggested that trunks were bore and valises just the thing at the Centennial. the unanimity with which they took up and acted upon the sugges- tion was simply frightful. Nearly every man took a valIse, and the confusion of the baggage room was now transferred to the crowd. And such valises. Every out line conceivable with every angle imagin- able, adorned those articles, and both were brought out to hideous perfection in the terrible rush for the last train. Not