Litchfield enquirer., 1878-09-05
CLIPPINGS.
The Potter's Field-Louisiana.

The Potter's Field-Louisiana
 Samson was an eminet tragedian in his day, l and in his last act brought down the house. Some men are as unsatisfactory as a soapy door-knob, and twice as slippery. Dr. Holmes says that crying widows marry first. There is nothing like wet weather for | transplanting. Thare iz no mistake about the plezzures ov welth; the mistake IF that plezzure is not hap piness,
 After August woodcock may be shot," We advise this weodcock to look out for himself.
 'Let me kick him for his motor," is what the disappointed stockholders now say about Keeley.
 The Wallingford tornado is supposed to | have been one of Kearney's speeches which went of by accident. The worst thing about mosquito is it's long | soliloauy as to where and when it had better 1 settle down and bite. Kearney is getting stale. He has been at large in Boston for a week or more, and not bond-holder has been hanged. The compositor who made it read, 'In the midst of life we are in debt," watn't so much out of the way. This is the last rose of summer, as the man said when he got out of bed on the morning of August 31.
 After man has been nominated for ofice,it is too late for him to take the. temperance pledge.
 / Why is theater drop- curtain so called Because the gentlemen go out to take drop whenever it comes down.
 As the circus has not put in an appearance here this season, the Sabbath school collec- tions were never better. What is the difference between an auction and a seasick nian One is the sale of effects, and the other the effects of sail.
 Our so-called ancestors, the monkeys, couldn't have been so ignorant, after all They were all educated in the higher branches.
 A cautious lover.-"When courted her," said Spreadwater, '1 took lawyers advice, and signed every letter to my love- Yours without prejudice.
 Why is it that at the hotel the man who goes is called a waiter, and the man who reallywaits for him to come back is called a guest
 Pleasantly Suggestive. Customer: "What do want I want a revolver ?" Shopman: ''How many barrels? ?" Customer ''FOr six persons!''
 Jay Carlton, in the Danbury News, says a strong grasp of the hand betokens a strong heart What a magnificent heart lobster must havel Somebody has discovered that whenever the grainis cut and hauled in, the tramp makes his appearance on the stubble and demands work or bread.
 Cider may be good temperance drink, butt can manage to git so drunk on it that kant tell one ov the 10 commandments from bye law ov baseball klub
 Correspondentssay that many of the summer resorts are short of men this season. WOuldst know the wherefore The men are ''short" themselves.
 We have just been thinking how language came into the world. It was during Adam and Eyes first quarrel, when one word brought on | another.
 Little Boy: Mamma, what relation is aun- | ties new baby to me ?" Mamma 'YOur first cousin, dear.' Little Boy "Well, ma, who is my last cousin ?" Ma collapses.
 This is the season of the year when the young man sadly picks the bird-shot out of his legs and declares that watermelons are un- healthy anyhow. When we read that 'sGeneral Szaparitz is fighting at Doboj," we feel like calling on merciful heaven to stop thls cruel war while there is any of the alphabet left.
 According to the figuring of the New York Herald there were nearly seventeen tons of hum AncI1a at fInI oolo 6o1ro In some places broken down front gate produced in court is all the evidence Q girl l needs to insure favorable verdict in a breach of promise case. Ninety five piano manufacturers are awaiting with breathless suspenset the 18th of September when the French Exhibition awards will be made and each will get the first prize.
 Stanley Matthews is trying to ruin the third term project by according it his hearty SUD- port. It would be reputation in Matthews pocket If he would wholly abstain from opin- ions on political questions.
 It takes keener perception of wise expedi- ents and more adroit tact to collect five dol lars in present times without wearing out sev- en dollars worth of shoe leather, than it form erly required to run the government. 'Pa," said littte boy, five years old, q saw lion and a lamb lying side by side in the meadow this morning." ''Tut, tut, James, don't tell me such stories" ," said the father 'I tell you did" persisted the child, "but it was dande-lien." Singular, isn't it, that when a man gives his wife dime to buy box of hairpins, or gum ring for the baby, it looks about seven times big as when he blanks it down on the bar, for little gin and bitters for the stomach's sake
 Conversation overheard in street car. smith to Jones, who carries we'll filled satch- el. Hello, Jones' where are you going j" ''OH for the country for a week." ''Are you going for pleasure or do you take your wife ?' ''Going for pleasure-wife gone to her moth er's"
 From the Winner, just weighing, look back to One name, if not one race, the blue ribbon
 shows;
 From Countess of Salisbury came the first Garter,
 The last to Marquis of Salisbury goes. An old Irish soldier who prided himself up- on his bravery said he had fought in the battle of Bull Run. When asked if he had retreated and made good his escape as others did on that famous occasion, he replied ''Be iabers, those that didn't run are there yit!"
 We can hardly imagine anything more curi- ous as subject of inquiry than the difficulty experienced by every writer of fiction in the attempt to paint very good man or woman. It seems to be very easy to depict wicked peo- pie. The villains of the play and the novel appear in great variety, with no lack of types of the finest interest. Wickedness seems to be perennially fresh, as it is proverbally engag-. ing. For instance it would have been quite impossible for John Hay to write an accenta