Litchfield enquirer., 1877-12-06
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 Two Sophomoresh have been dismissed from Yale College for hazing Freshman.
 Von Moltke plays whist nearly every even ing, and also deyotes an hour to music. He has a cultivated ear for a soldier, and is ea- pecially fond ofthe compositions of Beethoven MendeSsohn and Schubert. }
 Sidney Lanier has written an 'sOde to Wanger, 7 of which the appreciative St. Louis Republican remarks: s'This makes Wagner's visit to America certainty. He will come if for no other purpose than to kill Lanier. ~
 Mir. George Bancroft is working at Wash ington on his history of the United States, for which he finds wealth of material now that he has reached the era of the federal govern ment
 There is French story of young man who asked his sweetheart if she was fond of beasts. She replied, "Am to consider that declara- tion| That is pure French it could not have been said in this country. .z. ssszs -.e.- --,.m F No wonder Grant liked MacMahon! The French president smokes, unless when at his meals or engaged in granting formal audiences, from the moment he has done saying his pray CTS in the morning until he drops on his knees again at night.
 q, Here is brief Texas story: "An Italian boy named Lally came to this country eight years ago poor organ-grinder. His monkey died and he hired as sheep herder near Lare- do and by hard work got herd of his own. He is now independently rich"
 As Secretary Evarts was passing the White House with friend the other day the latter remarked: 'It is fit and substantial home for the President" 70 yes," said the Secretary fit is plenty large enough for the President to live in unless the Senate tries to live there too." General Longstreet has received letters from officers of high rank in both the federal and Confederate armies, praising his account of the battle of Gettysburg. General Joseph John- ston writes that it is the only satisfactory ac- count that has ever appeared.
 Six able-bodied tramps, who slept at the Po- lice station, in Quincy, Mass, a few nights ago were offered in the morning by granite con tractor, good breakfast and then work in the quarry for month, with the additional prom ise that the best two should have work allw ter, They went on. 5 sk
 There has been, 80 far, no attempt on the part of the President to invade the coordinate authority of the Senate in relation to appoint ments. On the other hand, there has been an inexcusable dilatoriness on the part of the Sen- ate, or it's committees, irsdisposing of appoint ments which have been sent forits concurrence. -Neao Fork Tunes.
 According to the Washington Star the cause of Senator Blaine's illness is that hes un- dertook to superintend some alterations and re- pairs in his house ill Washington, and while so engaged imprudently slept in the premises. AS there were no fires in the houses at the time, and the newly-plastered walls were damp, he caught typhoid fever from the miasmstic air. The late election in Virginia was great tri- umph for the bar-room ''bell punch" Not an anti-register man, as far as heard from, was elected to the Legislature and Dr: Mnffet, the inventor of the 'beA-punch," v was returned al- most unanimously from his district, as token of popular approval of his invention.
 Mrs. Victoria Woodruff, after featuring at Nottingham, Liverpool and Manchester, has been taken in hand ny committee of proni- nent London gentlemen, who are making prep arations to bring her out at St. James's hall, the most swell" institution in London. She
 
 to-f Chicago Times FKg FME < < In ., letter from Rome printed iii the Church man some interesting facts are given concern ing Padre Curci, who has been expelled from the Society of Jesus. of which he has been an influential member for fifty-two years. Since the occupation of Rome by the Italian troops Padre Clrci has not hesitated to express his conviction that there are no earthly probabili- ties of the temporal power of the Church of Rome being restored, and to doubt whether such an event was to be wished for
 The timber used in the Comstock mines costs $17, 900 day ;the fire wood, mostly con- stunned by the steam engines. $6, 900; candles burned in the mines, $1O, 900; the quicksilver lost, $2, GOO; and theice needed to cool the wa ter for drindHgyin the hot lower leyels,E $1, ,OO0 a day. The Consolidated Virginia also uses ice daily worth $180. Ovee two tons of bull lion, containing forty per cent. of gold, is pro- duced, valued at from $130, 900 to $150, ,O0O
 Georgia will elect Legislature and vote on the new consti tution,; next Wednesday The prospect now is that the constitution will be adopted, that Atlanta will be made capital of the State, and that the new Legislature will be overwhelmingly in favor of returning Senator Gordon to the United States Senate Mir. Cor don is exceedingly popular in the State, and there is no rival who can have hope of de- feating him.
 Michael Pepdercast rejoices in the possession of new hand, made by the celebrated manu- faeturerof artificial limbs, A. A. Marks, of New York Dr. Bouton adjusted it to the stump on Friday, and on Monday morning MT. Pen dergast wrote and directed postal card with pencil fastened between the fingers of the new member. On the 9th day of December last, MT. P. was terribly injured by the cars at Saugatuck, and for months fingered between life and death but now, under the skillful treatment of Dr. Bouton, he is "a well man. We are pleased to learn, although the evi- dence is nothing better then his personal as- surance, that Mir. Woodward is trying to lead pleasant and moral life at Norwalkw Conn. But when we reflect that Mir. Woodward has declared upon oath that he regards his connec- tion with and conduct while in the Tweed Ring as rather meritorious than otherwise, we feel that it is, our duty to invite residents of i 'Norwalk, Conn, who ask this impenitent thief out to tea. to keep an eye on the spoons. F. World H lege, dissecting female subject a few days ago, found what is called in doctors parlance ''corset liver" When tight lacing has been practiced through several years, 8 permanent dent or hollow is produced in the liver, which may be seen very plainly after the woman is dead and her liver dissected out This kind of liver occurs SO frequently in women that physicians have given it the name of i corset liver" In the subject mentioned the hollow in the liver was large enough for the wrist of grown man to be laid in it.
 Mir. Conover is not beautiful person, in the eyes of the Washington correspondent of The Cincinnati Enquirer. Thus runs the descript- ion: ''Conoyer has lean, spidery legs and a medium-sized body, slouchy and amicable manner, and nervous movements; a standing collar, deep-hemmed is very bald, with dark ish red hair, like black curtain, dependent from the posterior small, twinkling, blinking eyes, weak and bashfM. The face never rises to pugnacity, and seldom settlesto seriousness.