Litchfield enquirer., 1877-05-17
WHOLE NO. 2659.
oLlpplacs

The HGsOkeye thinks it a great pity that ''Gath's" mother hsped when she named her baby. t-el sVesi es 2 aa eas Eight lives have been lost by the burst ing of boiler on coasting steamer near the mouth of the Mississippi. % A New Orleans thief lately sent back the stolen clothes of an under-sized citizen with note. saying that he would wait for his victim to grow. A petition for -woman's rights, which l was signed by one thousand taxpayers of Louisiana, was presented to the Legisls ture of that state last week. The disbanding of the army is said to have been seriously considered in the Cabinet before the President decided to call an extra session.
 One thousand tons of marble from the l Lee quarries were carried over the Hous- atomic railroad last month and shipped from Bridgeport to Philadelphia. Senator Woodin appeared before the New York Legislative. Committee, last week, and emphatically denied all charges made against him by Tweed.
 In the way of puns, there is nothing keener in the language than Douglas Jer- old's definition of dogmatism a grown up puppyisn. The country papers are bringing out their ola electrotye plates of the eclipse, of the sun as brand-new maps of the Rus. sian Turkish war.
 A mipister asked new deacon if he had family prayers. ''Yes sir; night and morning, regular, if have to knock every one of the young one down on their knees." s .. .-. This has been terrible winter of the l Wisconsin apiaries,. and the owners are now soliloquizing with Haml ,t-"To bee, | or not to bee, that is the question" Was the Tribune joking when, in speak ing of our distinguished one-legged min- ister to Spain, it alludes to his valuable services Ion the stump?"
 "What this country needs, {" says one of our town ladies. ''is a religion which will make man feel that it is just as cold for his wife to get up and build fire as it is for himself"
 The Free Press says Detroit is always the first to respond to the public. pulse. Within thirty hours after the St. IIonia fire we were talking of having fire steam CT named Kate Claxton. How to cure an imprudent attachment -Mater-familias: "What is to be done. my dear? He positively doats on her" Paterfamilias: Well, we must try to find him an antidotes. "-C Punch.
 Some Connecticut families have bought land In Sonth California, and will estab- lsh village, modelled after those of New England, with school, a church and no liquor saloons.
 An Old City mother. whose little son is boot-back, has been attending the tenn perance meetings lately. end now calls the boy in the morning by singing. ''Arise and Shine.'
 The rector of the protestant Episcopal parish of St. John, in Jacksonville. Fla. 6dashh1hs0S dsh1hEs 0S tag g1a1tbf psaEeS 6eEudbe nP PraSi. lieves that MT. Hayes was not elected.
 A poem of six stanzas iron" Fannie entitled, "Where has our beautiful snow gone! is received, and respectfully but firmly declined. We don't know where your beautiful show has gone and we don't care.
 A gentleman from Chicago called upon Mir. Ralph Waldo Emerson the other dav. and introduced himself with the remark. 'I hope I don't intrude." ''That de- pends. said the philosopher "upon how much we have in common"
 A bold bad man from Burlington went up to Mediapolis. the other day and put his head in at the door of the cheese fac. tory. "Has anything remarkable curd here?" he asked. And then the girls screamed, and the men came out and drove him a whey.
 The Alliance" says that "the Baptist translation of the Bible into Japanese aS- tonished the Japs with: 'In those days came John the. SoGker, preaching the so0Ea9g ot repentance Repent and be soaked, every one of you.
 To POETS We must hereafter insist on brevity.-St. Louis RepWbIican.
 In response came,
 THE BALLAD OF THE MERCHANT,
 Trust.