Litchfield enquirer., 1877-12-06
CLIPPINGS.

A neglected wife may keep her sorrows to herself, but neglected liver will not
 4 handkerchief Irritation is very simple thing. It only requires two fools and two handkerchiefs. .d 5-t
 It Is strange how crowded two young men will make the largest parlor seem on Sunday evening. s a5 s s'.s
 A Milwaukee boat club has adopted light uniform, described as handkerchiefs around the head and one suspender. .9. # ''S
 It must occur to MT. Spencer, of Alabama, that he has misseda great chance for fame and apossible competence.
 Sharks won't bite. a swimmer who keeps his legs in motion. If you can. keep kicking long CT than a shark can keep waiting, you are all right. 2.
 ''Queer Dick" asked why the outskirts of New York resemble portion of Africa; and when we guy 1t up, replied: Because it is Ashanty land, s~ :. z Nature seldom makes a phool she simply furnishes the raw material, and lets the fel- low finish the job to suit himsef.-Josh Bil- Engs..
 A street nversation-Inquisitive party; ''So you've lost your father?" Reserved party; "Yes," 1. F.: 'How much did your father 4 leave ?1 R. F.: Everything" I. P. passes on. AS Faith is sometimes personifed as drenched female clinging to sea washed rock; but a better personifcation would be a baldheaded man buying bottle of patent hair restorer.
 During review of the Sunday School lesson last Sunday, the question was asked: "What became of Elijah ?" and the entire congregation was electrified by a small shrill voice that pip ed out with extreme junction, sHe went to ~ heaven like house afire, yoa bet" e a'
 Cause and effect A sixteen year old girl out on Columbia street has button string four yards long, containing 1878 buttons That girls father fastens his suspenders on his trousers with shawl pin, piece of twine and sharp stick. ED .-, .-s-e., There must be some truth in the rumor that Benjamin F. Butler is soon to be married. He has hardly said word during the present ses- sion of Congress. He is evidently preparing for the time when he will have to sit quietly by and let some one else do inc talking.
 prudent rich woman has brought up her accomplished and beautiful daughters to do washing and ironing When questioned, she replies: ''Oh, it's always we'll to be prepared for any contingency. Perhaps some of the poor children may marry an Italian count"
 The ministerial association of Burlington is going to discuss the question, Whether there is anything in the acts and character of St. Paul to justify the belief that if he had ever managed church fair, he would have charged sixty-ave cents for quart of hot water and 8 cove oyster? e. rv
 ''Pshaw!" said young lady of musical taste, passing certain church Sunday night, 2 where an incompetent organist was torturing the instrument, Hts enough to make that congregation all go wicked just to imagine their organist having a harp in the New Je- rusalem and being entitled to play on it." s9 IA book agent recently met in the Council Bluffs, Iowa, post-oftce, an inmate or a deaf and dumb institution, and talked to him with. out intermission for an hour, showing him all the pictures and urging the claims of his work upon his calm and deliberate consideration, before the stranger had chance to open on him with the sign language. Then the agent was wicked enough to swear.
 Mr. Oliver Wendell Holmes is thus describ- ed by the New York correspondent of the Gin 2 fcinnati- Gazette: "He is a brisk, witty man. who dresses in the most charmingly old-fash. toned style, always with drab waistcoat, and a coat that seems too small for him. He looks like cross between a Yankee and a Scotch manaana has "a dried up appearance, very much like an autumn leaf But he has keen eye, that laughs when he laughs And he en- joys laughing, and wakes you up with bis fun" Of Mr, Emerson, the correspondent says: II happened, years ago, to be standing near him in public place-quite accidentally, assure you-when an enthusiastic fellow, whose speech betrayed the cockney, rushed up, seized his hand, and with his hat on, rattled on the following; Mir. Emerson, allow me to take you by the 'and. I consider you the great est writer since Shakespeare Mr. Emerson bowed slightly, and q quiet smile stole over his face"