Litchfield enquirer., 1877-09-27
CLIP PINGS.
A bust is the waste of time. Of co

CLIPPINGS.
 A bust is the waste of time. Of corset is.
 Wine. cheese. and friendship improve with age.
 Trhhe Chicago Tribune says that semmes was kind husband, fond father and an estimable pirate ss 3s&ssssp 2.atss 8
 A cockney, speaking of the demise, of an octogenarian, remarked that he was born at Hayti and at heighty-tvo-7., 4~f nsT wiST61t AtPI !: f In Bath Abbey is to be seen the follow ing epitaph: Hereaies yAnns Mann; she: lived an maid and died an old Mann. E { This is busy age; in order to be heard you must not speak in & whigperY but stream like ababy when neglected by itai nurse. N~H y -A A--A- A-s~ e"-A~ @-a~ x in Ohio, but the largest kind of u teleph- Sone fails to catch any aliusfon to subsidies. F At what age were you married, asked she, inquisitively. But the other lady was equal to the emergency, and quietly re- sponded, At the parson-age. ~I How time aies.4 1twas only yesterday that the sweet violet peeped modestly from beoeath the mosses. To-day people are luggiug cider apples to the mill. General Howard is not personally ac- quainted with Chief Joseph. This is what embarrasses operations. between them. H Ns# #F##ES SAEa clerk. '' '''' ''''''N e'' '~'N '''' ~ '' '''' ''oh no. madam, impossible" replied the polite gentleman: ''a our camels lshair shawis are made of pure silk direct from the worm."
 l. The gentleman who stole a gold pen ! from this. office this afternoon will please foMFard shis real name. and, address, not necessarily for publication, but as guar antee of good faith Worcester Press. | An old citizen in a country village where they got, up 9 subscription lsst for; a snew hearse said. be wouldn give -nnthin. | paid $5 for a new hearse 40 years ago, and me and my folks hain had the benefit of # yet.
 r A Roman, who recently returned from Philadelphia, informs us that tlie Keely motor consists of pound of boarding house butter shut up in an iron box. This statement will do much to renew confer ehce in the power ofsthe metor,T FR sE F1AlAl 5 ] s5AA4AAAA A1
 A party were enjoying the evening
 breeze on board yacht. The wind has marked a young man who had been for fell over his upper lip knoY it innQ- cAnt1v said a nrotfv oir1 The fatuity with which some men adver- tise their folly passes comprehension. The two infatuated Baltimore dnnces who arranged h duel last week and failed to keep their watches and alarm clocks in ac. cord, are now writing letters to the news papers -ya ni h3dainTuT bl Figaro's Iron Mask represents a school boy as asking: Papa, what then is it that
 distinguishes civilization from hari,arism?
 Oh it is quite simple. replies the parent. Civilization kills it's enemy at six thou sand metres with cannon ball, and bar IFbarism chops off his head with sabre. .v A Bangor (Me. man attended d camp. meeting, and on his return was tell
 ing of the good time he enjoyed A ser- | ious-faced man asked. Were there any con- verts? He stopped a9moment, and said : We'll, I swear, forgot to- ask. But the.
 baked beans were bully,and the sailing
 and rowing were divine, and there were some of the handsomest girls there that eyer saw. ewhgas~v as Y He WOULD NOT COMMIT H1MsELF.-In the Registration Court, Cupar, Fife, a man was called upon to appear as witness, Land could not be found. On the sheriff asking where he was, @ grave. elderly gem tleman rose up. and. with much emphasis.
 said, My lord, he's gone" "Gone! gone!" said the sheriff. where is he gone?" "That can not in form you," replied the com. municative gentleman he's dead! III ! | It Is solemnly announced that if any em. ploye of the Government wishes to make
 voluntary contributions, to the political
 expenfe fund he can do 90 without viola
 ting the Civil Servlce order. This will be l joyful news to the lucky holder of $500 clefkship who does not know what to do with his surplus salary. hH' | The sophomores of Hamilton College have horrid colds in their heads One of their number, who wasasasp ended at Rhe
 close of the last term 4applied to the fae- 1 ulty last week for permsssion to rejoin his tclass, and resume his studies. The facul. lty decided that the young rebel must serve out his sentence, whereat his associ-
 ates were very wroth. They determined
 to give banquet in his honor and to de-
 nounce his persecutors.A At @ in the eve In1ng they formed in line on the campus.
 and marched to hotel in town, where an
 excellent supper had been provided. I While they were enjoying the entertain
 ment. and singing college songs, a large
 delegation of freshmen gathered outside
 and sent few spies into theshotel. 4Fil. ing into sitting-room on the lower floor,
 and creeping Hlp-staifs, the freshmen
 scouts found on racks outside tho lAnino.
 hall choice collection of hats and canes, Having quietly seized their plunder, they refreated on tip-toe and reioined their
 comrades7 in the 9etreat. lphe ffeshner1 then marched back to college, and on the l way consigned every hat and cane to the l Chenango Canal The sophomores went home-at midnight with full stonAchs and
 bare heads.
 l Mrs. George P. Farr of Windsor. has
 been Tn the habit of whipping her hus-
 bands twelve years old daughter by, his first wife so severely that the neiohbors
 recently caused the arrest of herself and husband for cruelty. At the trial mark
 on the child s head was shown, caused, it
 was claimed, by the blow of a horsewhip
 six days before, the offense being that the
 girl had taken piece of bread from the
 breakfast table ofter having been sent
 away. The justice, however, discharged
 the parties on the ground that they had
 to treat their child as they saw fit and he
 conid not interferes s,3lff 7ss
 II The selectmen of Middlstown, have un- Eearthed family that was nearly reduced
 to starvation. The husband was out of
 work and absent from home when they