Litchfield enquirer., 1876-01-13
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Lcenss il the foe of freedon. B ! A.oa dssi of soctc,okb s..4s dors,, o, .,

A good many New Workers leave the straight and narrow path to walk in the Broadway.
 Are your words of more weight. when ryoa pyoRoss,d anything thah when you sanos9g tl AuUl ii X
 The Detroit Tribune felicitously refers to lively divorce season there as ''the era of unhitchments.
 { (IThe man who is honest from policy is the most dangerous customer we have to deal with.
 No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature 80 much as respectable selfshness.
 The New Orleans papers don't want Cu- ba or Mexico on any terms-and least of hll cn thisd (rnas. NE VGQku Y IA Polisf dancing master committed sa- icide ln Erie, Pa., the other day. He schottisch own head off.
 A Danbury girl apostrophised her doll as follows, on Monday: '-Ain't you gone to sleep yet? o. you lazy grill"
 The witness who said. she was never without some bias proved afterwards to be a dressmaker.
 No License is the best of street commis- sioners. The Danbury sidewalks are not so nneven As they were ssHER
 lItisstated that William M, Eyafts will go upon she stage This preiuliee Against ,s .;,sSt s,;I sass sss fs h thatifg vide hOlSupa O
 Trying to do business without advertis- tising is like winking at pretty girl in the dark:syeuHas knowsphat you are do- ing. bptabboay else hods<
 A baggage smasher dled last week in Altoona. Pennsylvania. and the trunk makers are about to erect a monument to his memory.
 1 A circus tigeriis reaming around Brazil. Ind, and men who never stayed at home an evening since they can remember, are now to be found Tn the bosom, of their fan families; ;;iIq1lfB dtI0L Il ,0H
 A Detroit paper. noticing the fact that man lately dropped dead while combing his hair. says: "And yet there are people who will still persist in this dangerous habit.
 One of theshardest lines in the life of an agriculturalist is, on seeing an editor cutting copy from exchanges, to refrain from saying, ''On, that's the way you make up the paper, eh! steal it." D People wllo iys 2 sOod deal in issol4ted farm houses seem to dwell in a sort of so- cial twilight, and they have a way of look ing at one another that reminds me of owls in the day time. =
 When California woman defeated lion in hand to hand combat the neigh bors were greatly astonished, but her hns- band quietly remarked. 70, that's noth- ing. That woman could lick the devil"
 What sort of man is Squire Sim mons. anyhow?"s> 'sWell, you've seen them snow storms along early in winter, when there is a good deal of wind but not much sleighing? That's the sort he is. .CAIti.fN NLN '
 A young woman of Pekin, Til was ask ed by her minister if her husband feared the Lord. She replied. "Fear him Bless you, he is SO afraid of him that he never goes out of Sunday without taking his gun along. s-@- ~-.s~- -<.
 Some day in the distant future the little nigger in the barber shop who silently holds out his hand for ten cents for strik- ing a mans nose with his brush, broom will be laid awayto rest and scatnip plant ed to hide the spot.
 The Rev. Mr. Shipman, of Norwich, says that he was once called to marry man who was to be united to his fourth wife. As he approached the couple he said, as usual, f'Pleaset rise" 3Tlle man fidgeted about on his chair, and finally re- marked, We've usually sot."
 A Danbury man, wishing to engage sev- eral bushels of potatoes from party ill the suburbs, asked neighbor what sort of g. man he,was. Well said the conscien- him, but should think he would make a tip-top stranger"
 Many recent discoveries have been made on the area of ancient Chaldea. whence Rawlinson thought civilization came. Fifteen centuries before Christ there were books made on baked bricks by Kilah Shergat. One of these brick primers IS thought to have hit Blee Pahterzon.
 Tight times are not confined to this sublunary sphere. The other night there was tremendous ring about the moon. It was a fair, square promise of a severe storm, and everybody prepared for it; but after several days of vacillating policy, the matter was finally compromised at about, thirty cents on Q dollar. \ The Eureka, Ney., Sentinel says; "At the Fl Dorado saloon they have a kind of ticket currency on which is inscribed: Good for one drink It so happens that the ticket of one of our Sunday schools are of the same style and color, and lately several of them have been 'wrung in on the barkeeper of the Ell Dorado"
 A correspondent gives a very touching description of scene of domestic felicity he witnessed at the home of a young mar. ried couple in Connecticut: "I came upon them quite unexpectedly" he writes. s'She was sitting in the front parlor eating peanuts, and he was crawling around on his knees picking up the shells.' .- I A man whom Dr. Chalmers engaged to manage disorderly Sunday school kept his eyes wide open during prayer, and when one boy thrust pin into another, he marched up the aisle, still praying, and OoACu sh0s wy OoASS 0uu WCub UHCh again, praying all the way. After that he was master of the situation, for the. boys thought thata man Mhocould watch and pray like that could not be put down.
 He had made a hearty meal at restaut- rant, and. rising up, he said to the cashier: 'sI declare, if I haven't forgotten my wal let The cashier fired up, and hurled big words at him for full three minutes be- fore pausing for breath. When chance, came the stranger continued: -'But II have fifty dollars here in my vest pocket" |" The cashier couldn't smile to save him. ''I beg pardon, sir; I'm attached to you!" exclaimed lady, pettishly, in the street car, struggling at the same time to free her clanking chain. which had got hooked upona gentlemaS 8 button He lifted his hat. bowed and stammered: 1.-The at. tachment is mutual, Madam, assure you" The chain was laosed and thalady got of, biushine. and the young man sat down complacently.
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