Litchfield enquirer., 1879-06-26
New Preston.

The CLICK Of the moving nlacnlne IS Acdiu , and the aroma of newly mown hay is waited to Us upon the gentle southern breezes. The hired man now rises at four o'clock, mornings milks twenty seven COWS, carries swill to nine hogs, curres four horses, and hoes in the gar den before breakfast, which takes place al half-past six o'clock. Thereafter he perspires greatly in the hay field till noon. One hal1 | hour for nooning, after which he perspires more profusely till seven in the evening. Has nothing but chores to do till nine, then sups and retires to his downy couch at ten o'clock where he sneres in the arms of Morpheus til four the next morning, when the usual routine commences again. And so goes life for forty; sixty, ninety years then the end, and what has it all amounted to?
 Miss Minnie Carter who has been visiting long time at Geneva, Ohio, is home once more.
 W. Burnham returned from his extended western trip last Friday.
 MT Isaac Holt, of Seward, Nebraska, is visiting at his brothers, $. G. Holt's
 Simon B. Cameron, ,Jr., has returned from Pennsylvania. .-
 Miss Emma Beardsley, who has been at tending Tilden Seminary, in N. H., is home again.
 Henry Lennon, of Bridgeport, is also making his father, A c. Lennon, short visit.
 Miss Candace Hawley, of Danbury, is visiting at MT. Jesse Barden's.
 John Fleezer cut off the thumb and fore finger. and badly lacerated two others, of his right hand. last week, with circular saw, while saving out wheel spokes Dr. E. P. Lyman fixed the injured members. John if walking boss" on road job in Marbledale now.
 -G. c. Hitchcock is placing an addition to his house at Ash Grove, preparatory to receiv- ing the city visitors whom he expects shortly. We have an irrepressible and impression able ''Theophrastus Such" The other day a swarm of bees aighted on the highest limb of tall apple-tree The bees must be hived, and the tree not injured Happy thought! Thee phrastus set up ladder, took milkpan climbed up with alacrity, shook the fiery in sects into the pan and-here's where the eli max of a sad catastrophe ought to be penned but happily he possessed stoical presence of mind, and had enough valid, active faculty to preserve him from tragic fate. He did not pitch headlong to earth, but he returned to that sphere with wonderful agility, and whoever could have seen him flying round the corner of the barn and diving into dense growth of currant bushes, pigweeds and net est time on record but more astonishing con tertions than the most supple gymnast in Bar nums greatest show on earth ever dreamed o performing. He afterwards estimated the i'm pressions he received at million and half, all sharp and to the point and indellibly stamped. He also says another performance of this kind is indefinitely postponed. Rev. MT. Bonar of New Milford exchang ed with Rev. Mir. Lancashire, last Sunday snd preached to us an excellent sermon to the effect that aping great and good men who have lived before us, doesn't amount to much unless we have some originality and the t.u spi,Tt within ourselves. The external appear. ance of a man is naught, so IS the fashion ot his doublet but, however unfashionable the cut of his coat or uncouth his physiognomy, ii his life and works are the natural cutgrewtt of the real spirit of Christ within him, then ii he man indeed. It was fine sermon, and dealt with truths in plain manner AN1Ie-. Drown says MT. Gum is wrong apout the letters s. B. which were discovered on that old tortoise. He says they stand fol Nan" Ri0Sell and not Simeon Battefson as was stated, and that he stood Uy Gu0Iu Cul on the animal in 1868. Come up, gentlemen, this ''turtle" is equal to as many occasions as the sea serpent. Next
 Our sewing machine agent has either go, a bladder drawn over his cranium, or else he's had his hair cut. It needs double refract. ing, back action microscope to discern any. thing but scalp on his head. It may be mat. ter of convenience, as for instance when he calls upon lady to whom he has sold de. fective machine
 The stringed band now gives weekly promenade and balcony concerts, under the efficient leadership of A. Cable.
 PEN DRAGON.