Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-21
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 IA man cares little for his wrongs when get ting his funeral rites " @ @@@s- ~7s' -ss Verify there is nothing in this life wholly good or wholly bad .-[E BostOns T ramscript Ain't, eh ? You forget the egg.
 A girl may smile and smile and be unwill lpsh P sflh uAS
 E The barber of the Governor General of the Dominion styles himself Horne mower to hel Royal Highness," etc., etc. ys ..u.-..E Z
 Now doth the bright and beautiful calico shirt collar wilt with wear and fade with age.
 A Syracuse boy put his sisters switch into a acannon for lwaddings on the Fourth. He said that was the proper way to bang her hair 2 It isn't the man who wears the most dia monds in his earthly shirt front, who has the finest display in his heavenly diadem.
 Talmage's sermons, as printed in En- land, are very appropriately followed by aparagraph requesting readers to pray for the preacher.
 Stage door keeper to youthful admirer Will give the bouquet to Miss Montmoren- cy? Well, this is her husband, p'raps he'll take it for you
 Mrs. Langtry, the English beauty, is just 24 years of age. Her income is derived .prin- cipally from the sale of her photographs. 7Ai
 Another revolution is in progress in Mexico. We believe this makes 487 since the 1st of July, with some of the back counties yet to be heard from.
 The game laws should be amended some more It is all right to impose fine for shoot ing game out of season, but what is wanted now is clause inserted to enable man to shoot game and catch fish in season. A young man in, this city described taxid- errnist to bevy of young girls as one who sort Q upholsters animals He took the cake.
 It was at Nantucket the other day. On the way up from the boat one of the party asked the driver, Do they play PinGfore here ?'' "Guess not" answered the benighted islander, with puzzled look, ''but they play billiards. <"
 We should like to know why the street bands go up on Beacon street and play selections from the works of Wagner and Mozart and Rice, and other classic composers, and then
 
 was Moses p and "Baby Mine" ~
 Scene, sanctum; enter the exchange iend. '.Ah, thought I'd drop in to look over your ex- Editor to devil sThomas, get Mr. Limberjaw the Memphis Appeal and the Ava lanche." Exit fiend.
 At London book sale a copy of Drew's Essay on Souls" was knocked down to a who, to the great amusement of the assembly, innocently asked the auctioneer if he had ''any more books on shoemaking to sell."
 :Landlady," said he, 'the coffee is not set ted" "No," said she, ''but it Eomes as near it as your last months board, bill does ;'' and that man never spoke again during the meal.
 Pious old lady: "Just think Rose, only five to twenty thousand cannibals !" Kind-hearted niece: ''Goodness! The poor cannibals will starve to death at that rate."
 IA fellow in cattle show, where he made himself conspicuous by hisbluster, cried out: : Call these priz, cattle! Why, they ain't nothing to what our folks raised My father raised the biggest calf of any man round our parts " No doubt of it," said bystander, land the noisest."
 Joaquin Miller says: 'If you were to take a in your hand and crumple it up, and then spread it out again, the creases in it might fairly represent the streets and lanes and alleys of London, so angular, so awkward and irregular is this, the greatest of all cities of the earth"
 "You love me?" echoed the fair young creature, as her pretty head oiled the collar of In "you are my own and only" ''IIush!" she vsdon't say tIlat-be original. That sounds too much ikeY Barnnm's show bils." E3
 Boyhood is candid, and middle age. though it may think the same thing, is retieent. What part" asked Sunday school teacher, ''of the Burial of Sir John Moore do you like best ?" He was thoughtful for moment, and then replied, "Few and short were the prayers we sald. ng
 "A little blue eyed maiden who was nursing lier fifth Christmas doll and listening to her mother and some female friends talking about domestic broils and divorces, created rather a pleasant sensation by rcmarking: Well, ma, I'm never going to marry. Pm going to be a widow"
 A gentleman in draper's shopstad the mis- fortune to tread on ladvs skirt She turned her face flushed with anger, but, see- ing tac gentleman was stranger, she smiled com ,lacently, saying: ''I beg pardon, sir; was going to be in dreadful passion; l thought 1t was my husband"
 Very genial was good old Dean Erskine Of Ribon, when jocose rural dean said to him, in bantering way, 'I don't see why, if you authorizations have the prefix Very Reverend, we rural deans shouldn't have some prefix, too" %Well," replied the canny Scot, with a chuckle. suppose we call you Rather Reverendw' 3 s A +& A.
 A country woman stopped some ten min. utes in front of store in Springfield to gaze at a patent tiy-trap in operation, which was pretty well filled, and after studying the pla- card, $2, intently moved on, after piping out to the great amusement of the bystanders "Tew dollars! I wouldn't give tew cents for all the flies in Springfield"
 One of our esteemed contemporaries revives and rejuvenates the joke about the lady who indulged in tight lacing to prevent wasteful. ness. Some recent explorations made by Dr. Schliemann demonstrate that, four thousand years before Noah laid the keel of his arkesthe centennial of this~pun was celebrated in
 ss. As4 SNI GE fer. who gave him to eat a soft t-boiled egg and a little -vinaigrette, washed down with some Suresnes fsa bad year. 'tWe will tepeat this little debauch.s Y said. his host, folding lup his napkin, "whenever, you like. Al right said Preauit, glaffng at his entertainer witt hungry eyes. suppose i've. repeat itmrigh now4 a z
 ssIsthis the place, "she asked, as she van dered down on the barren sands, "where young lady- a Beautiful you pdge lady-fell il the water last seaseny and was rescued by { gallant young man whom slie afterwards mar ried ?" He looked at her carefully, estimated her at square A. with false teeth, and said swim"
 A Chicago statistician, of curious turn ol mind, made inquiry by letter as to the exact