Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

preached and asked the price of cup. ''One ] shilling" replied the lady, and he put down a
 shilling. Before handing him the cup the lady
 raised it to her lips and observedth that the price
 was now sovereign. The solemn gentleman
 gravely replaced his shilling with a sovereign i, , and said: ''Be gootl enought to give me a clean cup"
 Cor Ills CASE CoNTINUED.-A little six year-oldin this city has been listening to the remark of legal minded uncle in regard to the prospect of an indicted party getting clear by a continuance of his case from time to time. Shortly after the little fellow got into scrape which secured for him a promise from. his mother of little dose of slipper at an early period. He anxlously sought the uncle for le- gal advice on the subject, who could only sym pathize with him, but withFno prospect of re- lief. "Uncle, said he, "don't you think you could get mother to continue the case? If we could get continuance think could get off," He got off.
 Notice woman when she receives tele- gram. How it does scare her! She trembles like dish of jelly, and imaglnes all sorts Cf things. Her husband has fallen down the hatchway at his warehouse Her Johnny has gone out sailing and is drowned. Her sister Maria has been scalded to death. Nothing short of fatal accident quite fills the bill of her imagination. When she finally summons courage to tear open the envelope, she finds a message from her husband warming her that he will bring customer home to dinner, ard she immediately calls the children together and instructs them not to ask twice for rasp- berries, as there's just enough to go round, and give the visitor few extra.
 % D4NBUREs ITEMS ~ These are dog days, and they are welcome to them.
 There are nearly six hundred dogs in Dan- bury. This includes WhitessTeet.s szE
 The gentle muskmelon is in market. It is the most lovable of fruit It deals gently with the erring A. : E6@
 A white helmet hat, made familiar to us by the illustrations of the British war in Zululand was in town, yesterday.
 . A Bridgeport female cbeggar. of wretched mien, dropped package containing $400 on the street, the other day. Sport has chal- lenged her. - -A~ @a2
 Our feed man, Gould Disbrow, and that en- inently successful agriculturalist, l.. K. Mans field, are down by the sea-shore, fighting mos-s quitoes with double-ba:reled guns. This is called apleasure trip. .5 s-x
 At party on Nelson street the other even- ing, the conversation appeared to be dying out, when bilious man suddenly observed to a young lady on his right, '1 don't think they make pills as large as they used to-" Aft.r that the conversation went out again.
 Down where the salt waves kiss the shore and the moan of the sea rises on the air, toad got his hind legs into snakes mouth and was being backed in all over, when deputy sheriff came along and hIt the snake lick on the back with stick, whereupon the snake let go of the toad, and the toad lit out for the more inland parts of the State.r
 Rev. Mir. Pogson, the Bridgeport Baptist who is so earnest in the temperance work, and whose voice has been heard several times in Danbury, came very near being killed by his favorite beverage the other day. He stepped off from boat into the sea instead of on to the pier, but was rescued The Stdasd- ord understands that he has disobeyed the n- junction, meyer go into water till you have learned to swim. "- Dam6uay Neoos.