Litchfield enquirer., 1880-08-26
CLIPPINGS.

The last CELSIUS shows that Rhode Island is
entitled to another d. Id4rilian III both wards.
--,H5w can we EXPECT ahJthcf'to' keep our
secret, when 1t is more than We can do our
selves?
Never does man portray his own char3lc-
ter SO wildly us in his manner Of portraying
another's
THIS comes fresh from Il simmer resort
What game of cards is first mentioned ia the
Bible Give ii ap? Ne55tutfffed NezzAr.
J When Sydney Smith was; OUT of health his
do ctor advised him 80 lake IL walk Oh All
empty stomach. The witty patient asked
'sWhosc ?"F -i,t >.
A little girl, noticing the gitterir,g gold
filing in her aunt's front tooth, exclaimed:
"Aunt Mary wish had copper-tocd teeth
like yours i,''' -'.-'t -
Walk through some Of the dirty scunls of
the, great inetrnpolisand y0u tain realize the
force of the words, The man who enters here
leaves soap Behind"
4 Can Ezekiel have had an eye to the coming
bicycle in that vision where he saw zone
wheel with one cherub, and another wheel
with another cherub?"
The Hon. Alexander H. Stephens is report.
ed to be in better health than for years past.
He can now sit ON q hotel piazzaa at the sea-
side without aper-weigHts On his eoattails.
'Mr. Smith," said a lady at fair, "wen't
you please buy this bouquet to present to the
lady you lover" 'fTwouldn't be right" said
Mr.. Smith; '1'rn a married man."
"Pm coming through the rye" said the
pert young miss when she made her way
through crowd of corner loafers whose
breaths smelt more or less strongly of whis-
key.
asked if. she. was not afraid to, be On sthe
beach in the storm when it was deserted, re-
piled that she ''preferred the voice of God to
that OF the summer bOarder"
/, He was reading in the paper the other even
ing of Dodd, Brown & Cos. failure When
little 5-years- old went to bed that night, she
said: mamma, who shall pray to now that
bod has failed %
A boyish novice in smoking turned deadly
pale and threw away his cigar. Said he:
''There's sumthin' in that air cigar that s made
me sick" II know what it is" said his COM
panion, pulling away. "What?" "Toback-
er."
r. Among the inscriptions emblazoned at the
Examinations in Calcutta, on the occasion OF
the Duke of Edinburgh's visit to that city,
was one which appears slightly ambiguous
1t was over an undertaker's door, and the e-
gend was Welcome" m4dy .. 4upR
II WONDER uncle, said little girl, ''lf
men will ever yet live to be 500 or 1000 years
old?" mo, my child" responded the old
man that was tried once, and the race
grew SO bad that the world had to be drown
ed.
1t was a laxative Englishman who was
Dragging Of what superior things. they had rn
| the ''hold country to- everything here, and
it was a serious faced Yankee who said,
swell, will allow that there is one thing in
England better than we find here, there
is much better class of Epglishmen there"
L1roAFIELD COUNTY (DANBURY) News.
New Preston is anxious to connect by tee-
phone with Bridgeport, which city is never
short on lawyers.
A Harwinton woman picked four bushels of
blackberries IN three hours according to the
Lltchfield Enquirer whose editor is a LAWYER.
The Enquirer thinks the air wagon will
change the livery business 1t will transform
it into the lungery business without doubt.
lJoHe5
II. N, of Goshen, has been several wears
trying to- Kill a black snake The reptile
tiekles the hacks of lis leys win tic t.il.and
abstracts his attention from j he study of the
~ - II 81 A'@'@'
iournevman Dantpr at worl, in Kan. ,,os
attacked by hornets but he KEPT If wor, and
gave utterance to the following noble senti.
n'ent: IN was at work for msyelf | would
stop ana nght the peSky fellows" Hornets
like to attack sensitive person.
In Kent (Liichtield) last week a calf ran
mad, 1t was killed 10y throwing apai,of
water upon 1t. In the same place an OK he
longing to Charles klison died after a'lhour's
illness, What made the loss particularly sad
shnd "a ''''' just oee' '''"y
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GENEEAL (DANHUEY) NEWS.
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The Connecticut Barnes nave a reunion on
the 26th inst. lint New Haven, Here is AN
'0' - '''J' ITO ''e'''"'S'
+. A Stamford doctor owns six horses that can
trot in less than three minutes. But what
good is three minute horse ON tie road to the
grave?
are being extensively smoked by Ansonia
young ladies. 1t is a nasty habit and tends to
keep up the price of tobacco
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TIL. Inc sea seIpeht mas oeen seen again.
lhis ~ uhao'o'edly d ciaim put In oy the late
EMPLOYEES IS, OF me Consoildated road who were
d'scharsed 1"r oefectlVe sight.
Temperance detective Eyinc of New Ha-
karness staal;n5 hra ma go a,nesIeu lnr
. somlt;nn . h oIs o'o"0' anu '''uioerously
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