Litchfield enquirer., 1878-05-09
CLIPPINGS.

x# t# H # 91---@ G-s | An important suit -the first jacket and | tFowsers' -ka&zs .> 0 Stewart 'She-bang would be good name for it. Farmers have learned that it takes the best of soil to raise a mortgage. The latest song out is entitled "The Gas Bill.' It is sung long meter.
 When man threatens to blow out his brains do not be alarIned-he can't find 'em.
 You can't plant cats too early, nor is it pos sible to get too many in a hill gt .E,rr-I Hilton and Beecher are both off featuring. Elizabeth is the advertising agent.
 Mr. Kettle was recently married to Miss Thorn. That's what you might call "a prick ly pair. y ",-.-.... .,..-. a. .y...-. :.-.-. ..
 One swallow doesn't make summer but one robin makes spring, Watch him and sec It he doesn't.
 Just as we expected. The cold snap totally ruined the Delaware peach crop. It always does.
 Edwin Alonzo sends us a poem on "A Brok- en Link" Too late. Sausage season went out with the cold weather
 Did Kimball ever try to raise anything next door to the man who owns hens ?-DGn- bury Wees.
 A Roman who is enthusiastically devoted to microscopic studies has found a plumbers 1 conscience FAe- 2Hy sva.i lsTlss -r..l In Spain at dinner party the oldest lady is ! always seated first In other words, she is the senior eater (seniorita) of the occasion. , isII @. waived his adieux, as the country ed itor remarkedrof subscriber who had skipped out over night, leaving his creditors in the lurch
 The place to take time is by the forelock, we are told in an old adage, and we have ob- served that the same should be remembered when taking hold of humble bees.
 Gov. Seymour we'll says that when a thief was called an embezzler it confused the nor als of the people, YoaGers Gazette. Calling a riotous mob his friends" was off the same I piece. .-Berdslire Courier
 'sWhat's the use of all this sacrifice of life, this bloody butchery of Turk and Russian ?'' said Philadelphia Quaker t6 Cincinnati hog merchant. 'I don't know" replied the latter mournfully ''pork isn't any, higher that can see.
 What a beautiful example of simplicity is shown some of the followers of fashion by that domestic animal the cat, which rises inthe morning, washes its face with it's right hand. gives its tail three jerks, and is ready dressed for the day erssa sa sr I Congressman Woods new Tariff bill imposes a tax of thirty-five per centum on matches of all kinds.o Y Ioung persons about to enter the matrimonial state should remonstrate at once. The taA is onerous. What is needed is a tax of about ninety-five per centum on long en- agreements. 5.s f f .. ,... s,
 When man goes to the theater for the first time, nothing surprises him more than the wonderful rapidity with which an actor writes a letter unless it may be the suddenness with which the receiver ascertains its contents One glance, and he absorbsi it all, and clasps his forehead with his left hand. .
 Priests have at all times contributed their fair share to the worlds stock of good say ings. Among these is the happy answer of a bishop to a clergyman of less than moderate abilities, who demanded license to preach !, sI grant you permission, replied his lordship, Tout nature refuses it." Contra, it was a fine compliment that Louis XIV, paid to Mas siIion:f ''I have heard several great orators, and been pleased at their discourses; whenev- CT I hear you am very ill pleased with my self"