Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20
CLIPPINGS.
Every reporter is 6 man of note.

Every reporter is 6 man of note
 Awessern editor, in his financial article, says Money is close, but not close enough tO reach"
 Lawyers are never more earnest than when they wDrk with a will-that is, if the estate is vxlGzbIe
 The man who sighed for the wings of a dsve probably did not know that the legs were much better eating
 An accountant who visited Bunker Hill Mon uz1e11 L&ss summer says it is the longest col uz1 he ever footed up.
 A Sunday school boy. on being asked what u<8s the Tower of Pisa lean, replied, Be czzss Of the famine in the land"
 In Nichigzn etiquette permits bride te be EzzTlsd without gloves precisely the way she handles her husband
 His name was Wrath, and when he asked h8 gIf to marry him she gave him soft an- swsT- and q soft answer turned away Wrath. We OEd maids remarked Miss Stibbens, '-boEe cats because we have ne husbands, and cats are zlmOsS 2s treacherous as men"
 Once they started girls seminary in Utah. IE nH5GrIshed well; but, just in the height of Es pruEqesity, the principal eleped with the whsIe school
 Be little careful, young man, There are ruhJus In this country. of course, but many man has IOss hIs reputation for veracity by seeing one ten days too early.
 A co0csEted young man of Westchester, Said t0 the editor, I'm the best jester
 That ever was born"
 His jokes next morn
 CEESed his readers tO cry, 70, go west, jester. " An HIferzte farmer wishing to enter some animals st an agricultural exhibition wrote as follows tO the secretary of the society: "Enter ne zlss fcC a jSckass" And he took the prize. 4 Nev2da Girls Lsve-Letter-''Dear Jim- ny= Its all up We ain't going to get mar rSet Ma says you're too rough, and guess sa<ls rIxhi- I'm 90 soTry-but can't you 20 to EEup< and gel filed dOwn?"
 \ bachel0r who lStely died in Manchester. Ezgi@1d- beft his property to the thirty women vAo had refused his matrimonial offers. He sad In hhs will thai to their refusals he owed the peace he hsd enjoyed during life.
 N RzsS3.Ie, Treasurer of Jennison County, Ind H<U&e hrs engagement with poor girl to 1x-ry . rich widow. and jury compelled him ts pay SsS0 damages Well" he said. as he ezs4-d ever the money. Il am still about %-4~Ss0 @~1S@A
 Western editsr says he believes in giving the d<vII hIs due, and then right on the heels of thai assertion, writes an article against sui c74e- Thers Es 10 consistency about the West sTz edTEor-
 The inhabitants of Madagascar are dying tt g<t hOA of an American ship captain who hal s0ad them ten thousand quart cans of tomatoes &s new kind of gunpowder. Their old blun G-za1s<es weuldnt go of.
 sI never thought but cnce," said old Dea c1a WeAb5ng. '@thst it was a sin to steal az EUhreEA- And when was that ?" asked 8 friend -1t WAS when some pesky thief stsle ny new EEk one. answered the deacon.
 An exchange tells of a young man who swore eG smoking and was worth S1O,0 in five yezrS There's some mistake here. Weknow &young man who has swOrs of fifty times in five ye<rs ard isnt worth . cent
 My de@ress Maria" wrote recently mar. TSsd Br0oklyn husband ts his wife She wrote back %-DeArezG. leS me correct either your gram d-arezx Maria Am I to suppose you hay, o<her dear Marizss-
 \ wHty lady WAS once told by a gentleman ss Der acquaintance that he must have beer eoEn with & silver spoon in his mouth" Sh, bsaked al him carefully, and upon realizin. ths sS1e of hTs meuth- replied: Il don't doub Ei ouf | mus have been a sOup-ladle.'
 'Wh1. want to get at is the animus of tn, trzns1c1ie0. said the judge. But, your hon or- szld the complainant, "there wasn't any muss at all He came up quiet-Iike and grab bed the co&T- and was of with it before | saw what he WAS zI"
 It w1s customary for the ancient kings ts Keep seer Tn their employ, whose duty it wa. to Propaesy regarding coming events. But seer wh0 knew what was good for him didn' ProphE=y anything but good luck for the boss
 PFsEsiczl Yankee: Well, yes sir. giv n tS yoa- Shakespeare was & genius Bu he G1dnt kinder seem to put it to practice uSe Never benefited civilization with a wash UgE.chI1e. nor a patent turnip-peeler no anything of that sort Still, he was a smar man
 A BoS<ca family has a remarkably intelli sezG parrot which repeats nearly everythin t kSEs- and which some Sad boys have taugh ss swear 4wfully- It finally did little talkin sxEpe sf pTSfane character. and to cure it pzups1slry was repeatedly soused in cold wal CT and placed near the stove to dry. During rScrax storm some chickens which had becom vsxy wei and chilled were brought into tn hausH and put by the stove to revive them I ss h<ppeacd that the parrot had just beel dzcksa himself and after surveying the chick ezs far s0use tine, he cried out in oracula t0z~s= Little d-d fools. been swearingp