Litchfield enquirer., 1877-04-12

l. One of o1of1anas inalienable writes putting S'P. S.risIsis~l siouill sds lssI'. Some poet prsttiiy describes getting old. as "stAnding at life's west window" smal
 Now is as good a time as another to lean over the fence and tell your neigh. Dor what to do.
 Boston people would like Mir. Moody better if they had more faith and less of that internal inquisitiveness.
 Six-year old d:-Mamma, what are twins made for ?" Precocious older brother, ''So that cannibals can eat philopena's,"
 The misery of the young manswho courts sparkling, fashionable belle and loses her, is only excelled by the misery of the man who courts her And wins her. Cesar undoubtedly had his faults as a general, but nothing so pleasea Q thought ful man as to have a second lieutenant in the United States army explain just ex- actly now Caesar erred.
 A Rome milkman put a pane of blue glass in the top of his milk can, and when he went to deal out milk to the first cus- toner. he found pond lilies and couple of three-pound pickerel in the can. i5 "My son, said doting mother to her eight -year-old, "what pleasure do you feel like giving up during Lenten sea. son?" ::'Well, ma, guess I'll stay away from school, was the reply. ..-.. ..'I | A Rhode Island COW drank pot of green paint the other day, and kicked over a Connecticut tobacco shed and Q length of Massachusetts fence in the death
 Ingenuity will more than compensate for the lack of wealth. A boy in East Rome won't show any of the other boys the gash made in his toe with hatchet, unless the other boys first give him cam dy or peanuts, and he has not been free from stomach ache day for over week.
 Professor of chemistry Suppose you were called to patient who had swallow ed a heavy dose of oxalic acid, what would you administer ?" K. (who is pre- pairing for the ministry, and who only takes chemistry because it is obligatory) -"I would administer the sacrament"
 "Ah me we live again in our chil- dren." sighs the fond mother, and as she looks out of the window, suddenly adds. "John Henry, you pesky little wretch, come out of that mud. declare you haven't got sense to last you from ten o'clock till dinner -.'.
 party of vegetarians who were board ing at a watercure establishment, while taking a walk in the fields, were attacked by bull, which chased them furiously out of his pasture. That's your grati. tude, is it, you great, hateful thing1" ex- claimed one of the ladies, panting with fright and fatigue. "After this I'll eat beef three times day" lA
 | An English scientist has discovered that music will increase the growth of plants. 'Jane, rush that piano now and 9aItz those cabbages so that they shall be ready for market by to.morrow. And Johnnie, take the bass drum to the corner lot and drum up those onions" Think, too, that by music played over the tele- phone we can from New York solo Q dead beat into life in Chicagol .g...... | A clergymsn was preparing his dis course for Sunday, stopping occasionally to review what he had written and to erase that which he disapproved. when he was accosted by hls little son, who numbered but five summers-"Father, does God tell you what to preach?" Certainly, my child" "Then what make you scratch it out?"
 els he a good doctor?" asked one gen. tleman of another, speaking of an acquain- tance. "Well. people call him 60" re- piled the other; "but as far as my exper. fence goes, if was e patriotic man and there was going to be a long var. Ishould like to have him in charge of the enemy's wounded.'' ..+-,a s-,t
 Fast Day was generally observed in .l Danbury by our business men who closed up their places and went home to clean up their cellars, leaving the clefks in the rear of their stores playing cribbage and drinking egg-nog