Litchfield enquirer., 1879-12-25
CLIPPINGS.

,s The most common dish at the country hotel -''ali out"
 s1 like your impudence, :" as a pretty girl said when her beau kissed her.
 A man may tax his ingenuity, but how is he to collect his assessments
 Of colors the newest deep dark shade in blues is called ''blighted hopes" z;
 Modern child's prayer: Christmas 1s coming, O, Santa Claus, and don't you forget it." 53E irt - .-E I EA U
 When man gets the rheumatism in his knees he knows the beauty of a gait without hinges. sSf EFtf-y ~
 "What were the worst result of civil war 1'' cried an orator. Widows" shouted Jones, who had married one. es.- E. -.E., ln.
 It is said that the fashion of turning down one corner of a visiting card was originated by Gen Schenk in a fit of absent mindedness.
 A baby is very small tklng. It don't usu- ally weigh over nine or ten pounds, but it will keep family awake all, night as easily as if It was as large as am elephant. '.tl
 The foolish virgin on the train sltteth de- one sflirteth with the conductor and passeth free of charge
 Fashion at last has something set to its cred it. Delegate Cannon of Utah says the desire of the women to be up to the times in dress is slowly killing polygamy. [ A Vermont pet lamb swallowed several balls of y arn, and it was not long before his life became such a tangled skein that he could not uaravel it, a nd had to shuttle off the mor- tai coil.
 so Ahs Jones ?'' eWhy, the doctor says as how as if he lives till this morning, he shall have some hopes of him, but if he don't he must give him up."
 The doctors say that sealskin is unhealthy. Bless them !! Now if they can be induced to say the same of six button kids, point lace and Il few such trihes, coming generations of mar ried men will rise up and call them blessed.
 The fashion of putting 65O buttons down the back of dress has disappeared, but they now use l,5oo~ hooks and eyes on the front, and a man cant lay up uuiior save his life. -..-- ..- .---~ l A ''faux pa's"-Unmuscal stranger (to la l dy next him. Well, the piano wasn't bad, if
 the old chap opposite hadn't spoilt it with that | grooming instrument. Lady.-Im sorry you think. it .spoilt-papa is considered to be so good on the violoncello. $ s.s s k.E AF A e-s The clergyman in a certain town having, as tho custom is, published the bans of matriwo- ny between two persons he was followed by t the. clerks reading the hymn beginning with ' these words, 'Deluded souls that dream of | heaven ]" l. Now cometh the time when the average boy Goes out on the ice covered lake,. With a shout of glee and laugh of joy But the ice begins to break.
 k Into the water, full twenty feet deep, He is tumbled, and there unawares His skate-buekl led feet begin to creep Up a flight of the golden stairs. s ! A little girl in the infant lass of Sunday i school thoroughly appreciated the difference | between being good from choice and from neeessity. At the close of the school one day
 the teacher remarked, s.Beckie dear, you have
 been very good little girl to-day" .'Yes,
 m, Iscouldn't help being good; Igota tiff
 neck" Beckie replied, with. perfect serious
 ness %-AaNS>~ a ~ l Little Stepitof, of North Hill, who will be l only twenty-two years old next August, fell over head and heels in love with buxom widow, plump, fair,S thirty mine and rather caustic. He went down On his knees Sunday 1 fair, my peerless and my radiant star. And | IF" he pansed inquiringly, ''Oh, you ?" she said with tender smile, s'You are my little
 sum-" He feels much better now. l Senator Sharon once dined with literary
 club in New York. At the table he quoted from history, and, so the story goes, little
 man at his right joined issue on the question. Sharon waxed trife warm, and insinuated
 that his opponent might be a clever sort of a man, but history was not his forte. After din-
 ner Sharon remarked to friend "Who is
 that little fellow there who disputed my I dates?" Bancroft, the historian.p ANRw METHOD IN MEDICINE By this new