Litchfield enquirer., 1878-05-02
CLIPPINGS.

The photograph will probably be called ''she," because it reports everything.
 Hjalmar Bjorth Boysen is to mjarry New Yjork ljady.
 Girls of the period will wear dotted muslin | this summer
 I When Time is no mower he will lay away his scythe.
 We frequently think of Montgomery Blair as sort of Keely motor.
 Whats the usein being fast Old age catches | fast man soonest of all.
 Sitting Bull has decided to send his seven sons to Princeton college. The times are hard everybody says so-bIt the wages of sin have not been cut down. There are indications everywhere that the dandelion and the lamb are about to lie down together.
 There are 239 lawyers in congress- and only ! twelve farmers. That is what ails the coun- l try.
 1 A Cincinnati landlord is holding a woptn's ] baby as security for &4 board. Seams 2. ua we'd rather lose the @4 Bismarck writes with pencil ffteru inches long. from which we infer lhsl fvsy.s wr'tcs with ten-foot pole. From boys composition on hens "I cut my Uncle Williams hens head of with a hatchet, and it scared her to death"
 Eggs are down to a cent apiece. We should think the hens would set down on this egg bus mess at once.
 The man who leaves two thirds of q cigar in dark nook on the front stoop when he goes to see his girl will make thrifty husband To call man an ass is a. reproach, but in Arabia in bewailing lost friend, they fre- quently exclaim, Alas, my beloved jack ass."
 "What made you steal that waterproof cloak ?" demanded the judge. The culprit whispered, ''I was trying to lay up something for rainy day"
 It is an odd circumstance that the bark Azor, which has just taken a colony of freedmen from Charleston for Liberia, used to be a slav- CT.
 Out of one hundred and seventeen ladies in Michigan University, only four have taken to law. How many have taken to lawyers is not stated.
 The following conversation took place re- gently in hotel: ''Waiter, "Yss, sir. ""What is this?" "Its bean soup" "No matter what it's been, the question is, what is it now"
 At twenty a woman searches for the trailing arbutus. At twenty five she is after horse-rad- ish. At thirty she digs roots for her blood. Such is gentle spring in the various stages of the feminine life.-DGRdUyy NeOs. Gen. Banks made speech the other day. | in which he was afraid ofthe southern claims and the rebels whereupon the Boston Post re- marks Blanks always acGs afraid of the rCb- | els"
 | The Detroit News says There are but two | men in Bay City who are not candidates for the position of city marshall. Oneis dead aud | the other is wooden Indian.
 Young lady (who has selected some nice moire- antique for dress)-You will please charge that moire- antique to pa." Affable cerk-"Excuse me, miss, but my employer says your pa cannot have any mOTe-On-tick un- til he settles his last years bill" Exit yOnng lady in high dudgeon.
 A Boston lady sent her little boy to a drug store the other day to get q porous plas- ter, and charged him to be careful net to for get what he was going after He went out. repeating the words to himself, and in few few minutes came back, saying 'Here. mamma this is the poorest one l tood dit."
 A minister nigh to Boston had a son born t0 him and a generous donation from his church, the other day, and in the next days prayer he alluded to ''the arrival of a little succor" Af- ter the service two students who sat below him solemnly asked him if he meant the money or the baby. He was shocked.
 The profane Burlington Hawkeye says Mir. LOngfellow is used up with the neuralgia; he has kicked his Tyre down into the cellar and Growls at the toothache prmeval. The murmuriuR
 nerves and gum piles; Long rooted snags, with the fling all out, all aching
 like thunder, Stand like Druids of old with twnRes severe and
 terrific,
 stand like bottles of pain, chOck full of the awlulest Loud from it's oomy caverns the deep voiced neigh
 boring slOttis
 HowIs, and in accent. dsconsOlate, voices the vail
 of the poet.
 A pit for the unwary. First Law Pill; "Gad, Jones, most curious question has arised late ly. There's man in Newtown, and the laws such that they can't bury him !" Second Law Pill (earnestly): ''Very astounding, to be sure! why, how on earth can that be-" First l.. P. (derisively): Why, he isn't dead yet !'
 It is not true that cat always turns it tail to the new moon. The cat has no volition in the matter. The moon attracts the tail as it attracts the tides. This is what Addison meant when, alluding to the cat, he remarked that s'Soon as the evening shades prevail tbe moon takes up it's wondrous tail
 ssI don't know what you mean by not being an Irishman," said . gentleman who was about hiring boy, ''but you were loTnl1 Ireland. s'Oet, your honor, if that's all said the boy, small blame to that. Suppose your cat was to have kittens in the oven. would they be leaves of bread