Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

Tine wheat crop will wipe out good many mortgages.
 A job printing office on boat is afl ,at on tbe Ohio river 4
 Some Nebraska cornfelds will yield nearly 100 bushels per acre.
 Visitors at Niagara now view the falls a, night by electric light.
 Machinery hall has entirely disappeared from Farmount park
 Sumter county, Fla, shipped five million oranges the past season.
 Not one Boston insurance company can show profit on the business of the first six months of 1S79
 Anna Dickinson will appear upon the stage ln San Francisco next winter in play of which she is the author.
 That's relation of yours, isn't it ?" said man to his wife, at the same time pointing to donkey. "Yes, by marriage" was her singing reply. A seven-year -old Philadelphia boy picked a woman's pocket in the street, and spent the money in treating two little girls to supper of | cedfsh cakes and peaches. ! l Scotland are estimated to cost $10, 900 apiece. 1 pilot engine precedes the royal train. The express trains on the Deeside Railroad only run when she is at Balmoral. -as .-
 The London newspapers tell of belle who paid $25 to nave the initials of her lovers name tattooed On her arm, and later, having quarrelled with him, was offering $500 for a way of'obliteration.ss E& | y>, II ed in Englaud. Durham, the best, once worth $60, 900 a year, is now worth but $15, ,OOO, and only three or four reach $10,O0O. The | spacious residence are now found too large for the income.
 | A nun gave her destitute father a nights lodging in her, cell, at Prague, and for that l filial act was expelled from the establishme t, the authorities treating her case as though she had housed a man not a relative
 The six marble statues of his ancestors, which, under the late Duke of Brunswick will, were to be mounted on red granite pe- destals around his tomb, have been erected, and the splendid mausoleum in the Place des Apes. Geneva, is to be completed next | month. &
 The London Truth offered a prise for the best refusal in writing of an offer of marriage. | L1cdI IS tic SuCCcsSlui lctteT: s8 #@N8
 DEAR MR---: am very sorry; appre. ciate you immensely, but I cannot give the casket without the gem. PoRTIA
 A rule of the Illinois Central Railroad pro. vides that dogs shall not ride in passenger car: but big and ferocious bulldog walked into a car at Chicago, appropriated whole seat, and rode 300 miles unmoested. :sHe had such meaning smile, "was the condnc- tors apology for not ejecting him. B gx
 The Sydney (N: s. W. correspondent of the London times writes .It is great thing to get control of the market, and the first thing is to get good footing, and the Americans are certainly pushing for that with an energy which at least deserves success Our railway department is putting together three large new locomotives from Philadelphia Their design IS the result of close personal observation of our precise wants by one of the partners in the firm of Baldwin & Co. I am not prepared to say whether these engines will prove in every respect better than those which we get from England, but do not remember any English firm taking the same pains to study what we want to deal most successfully with-the steep gradients and sharp curves of our railway on the Blue mountains. Perhaps it is not worth the while of the English makers to attend to such petty details, but the Americans think | differently"