Litchfield enquirer., 1877-10-11
CLIPPINGS.

Gen Howard is called Day-after-to- ln0f'0" 0' 'ne in0'anS'
 ''T The piping times of peace" come inst after the first frost. sothe plumbers say. EIt is simply atrocious to speak of Gen. eral Mcclellan as moth-killer. He ney. Fer killed anything in his life.
 If you are going to educate your son you must for the life insurance business, inst ill in his mind that modesty is not the best policy. -y2 GI bodaI1IIL
 Nothing makes the editor of a "patent outside" newspaper feel more sangninarY than to see on his last page one Of his own pet items credited to another paper
 The time approaches when the prevail ing young women shall discover that she -is suffering for autumn leaves and a young man to pilot her through the epathless for- est
 We referred last week to the sad fate of Mr. Bates, of Vermont, who dropped dead whil le carrying in fire wood. The para graph did not have at all the expected ef- feet. and over twenty Romans complain that they are obliged to carry in wood by the cord now.-Ronae Paper.
 Rattlebone's youngest boy is genius. The other day he learned how to whist le, and in the W ming, just before tumbling into bed, he puckered up his little mouth, and began to whistle in slow, measured manner. "Why, my son, what are you doing?" asked his mother. "Why, ma. I'm whistling my prayers"
 Charles Lamb was once riding in stage coach in company with one of those sym. pathizing people ever on the lookout for an oppprtunity to compas sionate afflction. w hat bad cough you have sir" said the sympathizing one, after Lamb had re- covered from g violent lit of coughing. ssI know it, replied Lamb" "but it is the best I can do."
 An insurance adjuster went to see q man whose house had been destroyed by fire. Said Adjuster: "How did this thing happen?" Don't know; its a mystery"
 'Well, know.' House owner: Let's have it; that's just what I'd ikes to find. out" Adjuster; "It'ss friction" House owner: 'tFriction? friction? Whats that?" Adinster; "Why, friction is the result of rubbing thousand dollar policy on six hun dred dollar house."
 Hahnemann,s the homeopathic doctor. once cured one of his patients by merely putting flask under his nose and telling him to smell it. A month afterward he sent in his account, and the next day the patient, a -Parisian,- called on him, As Hahnemann was rather hard up, being very badly paid by his patients, he receiy. ed his visitor with the greatest pleasure. expecting to get his fee. .sMy Dear doct. or, i" said the patient, "TlI pay you with the same readiness as you have cured me Here is hundred franc note. Smell it. We are quits. .9a48s. As
 He sat alone in her fathers parlor. waiting for the fair one's appearance, the other evening. when her little brother came cautiously into the room, and gli. ding up to- the young mans side, held ont a handful of something. and earnest. ly inqaired:- II say, Mister, what are themp" 'Those?" Replied the young man, solemnly taking up one in his fin- gars-''Those are beaus." s'Therew shouted the boy, turning to his sister. who was just coming in "I knew you and he does. toO." The young mans stay was not what you call a prolonged one that evening.
 In 1859. when England was going mad about the question ofs'papal aggression, l the interest of Londoners was centred uI !. on Cardinal Wiseman. who had just been 1 created Archbishop of Westminster. One day portly gentlemsng who mach resem- bled the newly title ecclesiastic, hailed a l West-end bus, and got inside, swhereupon scontroversy in an undertone arose be. tween the driver and the conductor as to the identity of their passenger, the former treating with contempt the assertion of the latter that it was Dr. Wiseman, In order to settle tlle point, the 1c0nducsor descended from his perch on to the step. and, with a touch of his hat, apologetical- I ly addressed the stranger:. s.Beg your pardon, sir; but me and, my. mate, has a bit of a dispute about you; are you Gard- inal Wiseman?' The old gentleman be- ing a very staunch Protestant, and, with al. troubled with rather short temper, met the conductors clFil inquiry with . storm of oaths. and consigned him to . place where he certainly would not be in danger or catching cold As soon as the \ passengers vocabulary began to fail, the bus cad civily touched his hat: .srhank you, kindly, sir. and then called out in . loud tone to the driver, so that every. body inside the vehicle should hear. "Drive ons Rm;it is the Cardinal l''a ..a