Litchfield enquirer., 1880-07-22
Danbury News Items.

field county that snakes have appeared.
If you lose your breath don't run to catch it !;
you can catch it sooner by standing still.
Small as apples are they appear to be large
enough to floor four year old boy.
Stratford got three horses to run away one
day last week, in the unholy ambition to out
shine Danbury. u Z s-EsT g e ~
| Avon has temperance clam bakes. A tenn
perance clam must be the antipode of that
clam whose condition has passed into prov
erb.
.Firecrackers frightened the horse of New
Haven pie-pedlar, and caused it to jump into
the sea. The pies were lost owing to the
| crust being heavy.
A North Carolina man will work four hours
to chop down tree that a coon is in, but
nothing would induce him to split up enough
wood to cook the supper with.
The first boy to be run over and have leg
broken by bicycle lives in Bridgeport. 1t
speaks we'll for the enthusiasm of the riders
there.
Milk has gone up another cent on the quart.
This is owing to the recent rains which injur-
ed the grass by making it grow SO fast that it
| pulled itself out by the roots.
Joe Vail, of the Winsted Herald, says if
| hell is any worse than the Fourth of July in
| Wnsted he is going to try to live better life.
| 1t is not known who will be his successor on
the Herald.
| A Shelton man attracted the undivided at
tention of his neighbors by spreading fish GU
ano over his lawn. He did it to make the
lawn grow, and succeeded admirably; as it
| soon filled the neighborhood. L ~
Mrs. Newton, of Sufield, spoke on the
| Fourth for the first time IN seven years. Sew
| en- years ago she took the notion that it was a
sin to speak, and resolved to speak no more,
but on our last Fourth she broke the resolve.
The observance of the day was SO quiet that
| she took pity on Sufaeld
Jerry Carroll was deck hand on board the
| Narragansett, hnt he left the vessel the day of
| the disaster. This was providential. Last
| Saturday he went 10 swimming and was drow-
ed This was--but why bring up the past
| Mikman Hunt, of Ridgebury, met with
misfortune Monday night when the heavy rain
| Hooded the spring in which his cans were
| cooling, and reduced the milk beyond even
what milkman believes to be equitable.
are for sale in New England on Mondays.
| The descendants of the Puritans must get up
mighty early that morning, and we should
| argue therefrom that it would pay neighbor-
hoods to club and buy calcium light, rather
than to use lanterns.
Garfield will carry every State where there
is free vote and fair count. -Norwalk Ca
zette. You are right. And so will Hancock
A peculiar feature of American politics is that
no candidate ever has been or ever will be ue-
feated in this country where there is free vote
and fair count. ~
The Goshen correspondent of the Winsted
| Herald, disingenuous party has been taken
/ in. He writes: "Last week / went to East
Hartford to attend the funeral of my friend,
MIR. Albert G. Raymond, and found it very
dry indeed. The Raymonds won't get the
best OF him at their next funeral you bet.
He will carry snipe.
When President Hayes went to Alumni
Hall, New Haven, in company with President
Porter, they were accosted by an elderly gen.
tleman who was selling Captain Townsend
History OF the British Invasion, which he was
voclferociously announcing were for sale ''for
the small SUN of so cents" He extended one
toward Mr.. Hayes for his perusal The pres
ident grasped the pamphlet, smiled, bowed
and walked on as complacently as possible.
lie didn't say wsrd about remuneration, and
that book agent who didn't dare tackle the
President for the half dollar, was the most
disappointed, disguised and irate individual
that appeared on the campus during the day.
The Norwich cicycle club have adopted a
rule IN cases where horses are liable to be
frightened by the bicycle. 1t is to have the
driver of such horse raise his hand twice when
the bicycle rider will get down. pathis bicycle
under his coat, clasp his hands behind and sp-
pear to be looking intently in another direction
aslif he didn't know what was going on.
This, tits thought will give the horse conf
dence to 60 by. However, it is not the BIZ
cycle that scares the horse. but the legs of the
rider. y, t.,.lo i III =t- tliiTi y 4
.sDe gen'man dat does de boot blackin' at
the Old Colony depot has the misfortune to
be deaf mute and like deatfI he does his
i work silently and well. The other tiay a
brawny and slightly balmy Hibernian entered
the station and seating himself in, the boot
blacks chair, stretched out his br0gans for "a
shines The Aartf& se usual pulled cut his kit,
and went silently to work, but hls patron, be-
ing far from tongue-tied, looked down and
queried:
+ "Fwtat tiYe do the mex. train be going to
tGinghasn pr Z. = y
The remark fell ON the dusky brusher like
water on a ducks back as he labored on
Casting plying look at the inferior race
the Irish gentleman asked again with labOred
politeness
Look here, young Teller, WOE AKIN you,
f'what time the train leaves for Ginghamp''
Still no response, and losing patience aud
politeness the Hibermian howled :-s -
'Bad luck to yez for black nagur, will yez
tell me whin the kyarrs goes to Ginghani2''
Here an amused habitue of the place in
terposed and remarked to the irate son of
Erin: 81
THAT man cannot hear or answer you he
is deaf and dumb.''
Il Drawing himself up in the chair with look
OF ineffable contempt, the Irishmsn launched
this final shot:
"Ah now. Is he thin Wall, no needn't
put on 90 much sthyle annyhew!"