Litchfield enquirer., 1880-04-29
thropic turn.

1 thropic turn.
 Jerome Edwards, of Burlington, was visiting his friends here and in Marb.edale, l last week.
 1 Fred s. Cogswell returned home from his l trip to the west, last Saturday. We have not yet had talk with him, but expect when we do to be astonished at the tales he will unfold of billowy seas of growing wheat, and sweet potatoes three yards in length, and pumpkin vines stretching across one township into another.
 Jerome Graniss, who recently had two horses die, has purchased of Seth Pratt, of your village, pair of high-toned, hlgh-step- per, thorough -breds, which are the fastest pair in the village now. They are of that highly picturesque color which makes equestrians and ''hoss jockies' call them ''buckskins"
 For some time past, MT. Editor, we have been in an agony of curiosity, but, owing to our aversion to meddling with private affairs of of other people, we have refrained from any show of inquisitiveness. But, sooner or later, human nature will assert itself, and there generally comes time when endurance of the unexplained ceases to be virtue and prag- matical inquisitiveness becomes only burn- ing thirst for knowledge. Such time in our life has arrived. and we lay aside that false modesty which is erroneously called "minding ones own business" and give vent to the ra- ging and unquenchable desire within us by asking. when does your Goshen star-gazer sleep? He seems to have mighty faculty for prying into the secrets of the heavenly bodies, and it also appears that he has pre- ternatural antipathy for, and great dread of light; for in No. 436 he says in sad and pathetic way that, '.The daylight troubles me very much." Does he love darkness rather than light? We can't and won't entertain the insinuation that he belongs to that class of humanity, no, not tor single moment Still, every time there happens to be an obscuring cloud or other obstruction between himself and the heavens, of night, then straightway lamentations sad to hear come floating down to
 
 breezy hills of Goshen In 437, he waieth that, "The smoke was so dense near the earth that it was impossible to penetrate it with power ful telescope; and so we notice nearly every week thls current of sadness and sorrow per meating his letters. When does he sleep? That is the question.
 Leslie Baldwin and wife, of Wolcotlville. were at F. s. Cogswels' over Sunday.
 B. Norris, al Lakeside, is building an addition to his residence. When completed It will make the dining room more spacious, add more sleeping apartments, and make his place otherwise more attractive to "city visitors" Swallows put in an appearance on the 20th inst. What year did they come earlier i? Rev Mr. Lancashire will hold meeting, to commence at about candle.llght, in the school house in Christian street next, Friday evening, the 30th inst.
 wicked man named Cable
 Who thot that he able
 To kinde the morning fire,
 Put in the stove paper
 And then applied the taper,-
 Alas it lit but to explre
 So then he genufected,
 AS might have been expected,
 To blow to life the dying fire;
 Out flew the light. dry ashes,
 In his eyes and mustaches,-
 His language then you'd not admire. News has reached this place of the death of Mrs. Arvin Burnham, at Sextonville, Wis consin, April 17th. She was formerly resi- dent of New Preston and many of the older inhabitants here will remember her.
 PEN DRAGON.