Litchfield enquirer., 1877-08-30
CLIPPiMcS.


 A woman loses one tenth of her life in looking for her thimble.
 When the Russians make their next ad- vance Osman Pasha hopes to Batoum the head. @S ss ' $
 People learn wisdom by experience. y A man don't wake up his second baby to see it laugh.
 The kind of flowers oftenest raised by the mothers of unruly. boys-the .'lady= sllpper." SEhssKkafs MI They are called eIndian supply con. tracts, bscausethe supplies always con- tract before they reach the Indians.
 An Iowa preacher, of precise and ar- gumentative turn of mind, lately began a prayer with these words; .":Paradoxical as it may be to Thee, Lord ,'setc. as.s { CT should have no objection to my wife's reigning," sad an affectionate hus- band, ''if 1t were not for the fact, that when she reigns she IS so apt to storm also"
 .ENotwithstanding his laziness the Turk is just now displaying greatsdeal of gSa- ghracity, enough in fact to Tirnova the "hole plan of the Russian campaign.
 A St. Louis man was thrown out of the window by his wife the other morn jug. In this case, as usual, woman was the power behind the thrown.
 A Frenchman thinks the English lan- gusge is very tough. "Rereis lookout" he say, (which is put out your head and see; and look out which is to haul in your head and mot for to see-just contrarie. !" "A soft answer turnetl, away wrath;' yet man caught by his wife dealing soft answers to pretty widow next door, says he can show scars to prove that the prov efb didn't work well in his case.
 The very latest; '.Pay the bill?" said a gentleman who is we'll known to collectors as the prince of procrasttnators. should be happy to do so, but this dampness has caused my money drawer. .te swell, and I cannot get atnny funds Come the first dry. day.
 !. Irascible Old Party.-Conductor, why didn't yeu wake me up as asked you. Here am miles beyond my stationi Con- ductor.- II did try, but all I could get out of you was, "AI right, Maria; get the child fen their breakfast, and I'll be down in 8 minute" ,t-s..l...-f eg. s.,.- |s1 ffAh, lovel' she murmured. as they wandered through the moonlight, '.ah, dearestl why do the summer roses fadeP'' He happened so be M 2 y9ung .S sheRRsistt Rs stteppfea pf that it was owing to the insuficieneY oi oxygen in the atmosphere. e4eI .}sa"s -T,
 In Norway, drunkards are compelled to sweep the streets. When motion was made in the Chicago City Council to adopt the Norwegian practice, seven redl nosed Aldermen rose simultaneously, and wanted to know if this. glorious republic was going to be dictated to by the etfete despotisms of Europe. s s sssu. @.
 HE UNDERSTOOD THE LANGUAGE Said a Main street man to German friend, who was complaining of not having anything todo. "Why don't you form class and teach German? Your friend Schmidt has 2 night class, and he manages to make 8 few dollars in tbat way" @'.Vati dot little Schmidt vot writes in the Gort House?''' "Yes, the same. ? "Vy, he don't can speak dot Inghlish language like me. Ven he say mOole. he say moole; he don't. can say moole like me; and when he say play, he don't can say play like me- 2, .aG' 7. :,
 In the house of Peers during the exami. nation of the magistrates touching the particulars of the Porteous mob in 1736, the Duke of Newcastle having asked the provost with what kind of shot the town guard, commanded by Porteous. had loaded their muskets, received the unex. pected reply: .'Ou, just sic as ane shoots dukes an fools wi a The answer was con. sidered as contempt of the House of LeIds, and the poor. provost would have had not the Duke of Argyle, who must have been exceedingly amused. explained that the worthy magistrates expression, when rendered into English, meant to de scribe the shot used for duck and water fowl. ...5.a 4., .s. ..l-.5.i s.t44..- , In this country every poor boy has Q. chance to rise in society and become all that his talents and industry entitle him to become.-Hartford Times. ..,....'
 Doubtless all the poor little boys will be ready to ''vote for Tilden" after read ing that. But we could have done better. Hear us: ''In this country every poor boy has a chance to rise in society and be. come President of the United States and go Washington. Remember that little poor boy. and now come and turn tle grindstone, that's nice lit- tie felio"l , The Times may use this as original as much as it pleases. = WSnsted NeaUs. ,.. . Popular suffrage has been put to sim gular test in village of Ava, Japan. The was harassed by midnight robber, whom nobody, could detect. The head of the hamlet, summoned the entire male population under his charge, and dl- fected every, many rlan to write the name of the person whom he suspected and to deposit the ticket in a box. Fifteen ball. lots bore the name of Abe Tanihei, the rest being blanks. The man whom every body distrusted was SO overcome with as- tonishment that h6 made flll confessior,s .gs7@ history Of popular government was q thief elected with such unanimity,