Litchfield enquirer., 1879-02-20
CLIPPINGS.

An Indiana editor has ~been indicted for murder. His first step in crime was copying paragraphs and clipping off ther credits.
 Oliue Logan says the great ladies of Europe spell very badly. The writings of the old man Chaucer are open to the same objection. !
 Trust him little who praises all; him less who censures all, and him least of all who is indifferent about all in short don't trust any body at all. -ng g.'sl -.t
 "Are good men, then, so rare ?" asks The I Christian Standard. We'll, brother, that de- pends great deal on the taste of the .cannibal who cooks them. ~-.
 Mrs. Partington again.-,'Po man P said the old lady; "and so he's really gone at last ! Ninety eight, was he Dear, dear to think how that if he'd lived two years more he'd have been a centurion" (t
 The plumber came down the wall like a wolf in the fold his pockets were laden made love to the cook, and seventeen hours were charged in the book.
 There was young fellow of Leicester,
 Who beautiful damsel did pecester,
 But whenever he addrecester, Sne called hun a Jelcester.; So he fled to the wilds of Wecestcheicester.
 Our exchanges are full of items about the ''Lght Running Domestic" They probably allude to the hired girl who goes around the house in her stocking feet.
 In criminal law the question of the bench is not "Is this man guilty ?" but '1s there f1y- speck on the indicl ment large enough to be apparent under the judicial microscope
 Live and learn. Wears daughter "And why did Aaron make golden calf? Sharp child of three and half 'sPlease, Miss, be- cause he hadn't got enough gold to make a cow" t--tt T--- -..-Ea-
 Breathitt county, Ky, IS described in the Louisville Courier Journal as: "a land where revolver and rife
 Are used for the purpose of settling disputes; Where life is regarded as only tri1e, Fl
 And'tis usual for peopletodie in theirb oets.R ? A writer in The Louisville Courier-J Journal gives a little incident in reference to Shaks- peare at transpontine theatre in London "Me Lud ! the Duke of Buckingham 'as harived." t'As e? Be heeuinse, vff with IS blarsted 'eadv
 "Oli, heavens, save my wife!" shouted a man whose wife had fallen overheard in the Hudson recently. He succeeding in rescuing her, saying: My dear if you'd been drowned what should have done? ain't going to let you carry the pocketbook again."
 The day before a Turkish girl is married she is taken to the bath by her lady friends. and humps of sugar are broken over her head as a forecast of matrimony. A, year or so after ward her husband breaks the whole sugar. bowl over her head.
 Tn churchvard in London is tombstone with this inscription "Here lies Sarah Smith, ers the loved wife of Thomas Smithers mar ble-cutter. This monument was erected as tribute to her memory and as 8 specimen of his art. Monuments of the same style $25 each. ...aE tan 4a.N ...ss.s -4.L a
 A little boy ran away from home, and while enjoying himself in forbi dden fields, thun- der storm came up, and it began to hail. His guilty conscience needed no accuser. Running home, he burst into the presence of his aston ished mamma, exclaiming breathlessly: 'Ma, ma, Gods frowing stones at me p 3t(
 Two boys came from Springfield, Mass, to New York, in 1865, on an excursion got up by two of the churches to see the Great, Eastern One of the boys went through on a half-fare ticket, saying that he was under 15 years of age, though he was really over it. He now lives in Hartford, Conn.,, and has just written to the churches that he is willing to pay the differenceins the fare with interest. His con- science has been troubling him:
 One night at the Theatre of San Carlo Ma pies, Dumas the elder found himself chatting l fsmiliarly with stranger who, when the play was over, said to him apatropizingly q have greatly enjoyed your conversation, sir, and I hope to see more of you. If ever you visit Paris call on me- am Alexander Dumas" | ''The devil you are ! So am l" replied the nsyelist, with roar of laughter. .-g s--,e-
 ~sPoor Herbertl How I wish you did not have to slave so at that horrible store from morning till night T. said his wife, as, with fond caress, she seated herself on her husbands knee, and gently streked the auburn locks from bis sloping brow. And the grave, stern man of business understood her at once, and answered.: .sWell, Susie, what is it--a bon net or what? Go light on me- for money is scarcer than ever" An old fashioned lady wants to know why | the graduates of Vassar and other s'female" colleges always have their ages printed after | their name in reports of Alumne meetings thus: Miss 1. Smith, President c7O). Miss Jones, Vice President c6e) Mrs. Robinson, Secretary c7s), etc, etc. .-~.
 It hoppens about this way among our state exchanges: News Editor Foreman. All the column left open for Bridgeport's last excite ment and go to press. Nothing been heard from there yet and it will probably happen too late for this issne-"f It is dreadfully wear ing on news editors to be compelled to keep one eye on the world for news and the other on Bridgeport. .-Brsdgeport Standard.
 Two ladies, both of them little dull in the hearing, were in church one day, when the minister had for his text, Except you repent ye shall all likewise perish" They listened patiently enough, but when they got out the one said te the other: "Jenet, wasna you an awful text the minister had the day 3-sExcept We pay our rent, we're a to be putten out Q the parish'"
 The power ot prayer: An excellent lady In New York tells what a trial her first hus- band was, being a scoffer at holy things, and 1 how, after vainly demonstrating with him for | years she at last organized a prayer campaign concerning him land in less than three weeks from that time his horse. ran away with him
 and he was thrown out of the wagon and kill
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 There was an exhibition of tableaux in Fond du Lac, Wis, and the small boy was present. A scene was presented--saThe execution of Mary Queen of Scots" Mary kneeling with her head on the block, the lexecutioner stand 1 ing with uplifted axe poised for the death blow, amid breathless silence. Suddenly, in loud whisper, the small boy exclaimed: ''Pa,