Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-08
CLIPPINGS.

He that hath short pocket carrieth long face.
 We yield to temptation, alas much sooner than to persuasion.
 The red tops add more to the small boys height than the high heels.
 The lively click of the billiard balls may be called "the music of the spheres.
 The New Haven Register heads it's funny column with the title: ''Corpuscles of Hu- mor."
 The great trouble with professional ball. players is to find a pitcher that will hold wa ter-only.
 An Arab has lately unearthed an idol fif- gold four inches thick. The old chap must have suffered with dyspepsia. Mamm,-"Why, Poppet, all these apples are bittan. Have you touched them p Pop pct,-''No, ma. But it froze last night, and p'r'aps-p'r'aps-they are frostbitten." The Burlington Hawkeye, was'your mothers slipper" The inventive genius of the age hasn't been able to improve much on it ei- ther.
 Pedagogue-"Wha is the mea ming of the Latin verb ignosco?" Tall student (after all the others have failed to give the correct defi- nition) - "I don't know" Pedagogue- s'Right, go upto the head" 2
 A little boy said he didn't want the soft part of the biscuit "Some little boys," observed his mother, "would be very thankful to get it. "Then. why don't you give it to them ?'' answered the four -year-old hopeful. s5@
 A schoolboy, being asked by his teacher how he should fog him, replied, ''If you please, sir, should like to have it on the Ital- ian system of penmanship- heavy strokes upward and the downward strokes light.
 The Star Club of Boston has been broken up by the police, and thirteen of the members were fined $4 each. Their offence was play ing poker on Sunday but they probably would not have been molested if they had been wealthy men, instead of poor, young fellows, whose club was so humble that the rent of it's room was only 60 cents week, and the dues five cents per member.
 ''Oh yes, wait till Christmas" snarled the youthful scion, 'that's always the way If want new sled, wait till Christmas; pair of skates, wait till Christmas. l waited last year, and 1 didn't get sled or skates either Nothing but book with red cover and a little baby card with verses onto it. Chris mas is fraud. Boys never get nothing they want"
 There is young lady at one of our hotels who on one morning comes down to breakfast with copy of a certain magazine in her hand. On another morning she has different maga- zine, and on the third morning still another magazine She is invariably governed in her choice of literature by the periodical the color of whose cover harmonizes best with her cos tune. sSeMse
 They had "good-sized" snow storm along the line of the Northern Pacific Railroad the other day, and this is the way the Fargo Ar gus raves about it: ':, - ---.-.--4-,, Oh, the Snow,
 The Bee Ycw-tiful Snow
 It Made Last Night So Jolly, You Know, Relating the Trains aad Grounding the Wires.
 as Blizzardlng Over the Land
 w it Fires l~sI1 ~ Ii O, Give us Chance, With Big Sharp Hoe,
 at the Son-of-a Gun Who Wrote
 Beautiful Snow" @5 It is related of well.known merchant of a neighboring city, that after making his will ana leaving large property to trustees for his son, he called the young man in, and, af- ter reading the will to him, asked if there was any alteration or improvement he could sug- gests a& 2 +s I @& ~ ArA s-R A4 $ s7s
 "Well, father" said the young gentleman, lighting a cigarette, ''I think as things 90 -'ays it would be rather better for me if you left the property to the other fellow and made me the trustee"
 WHAT AILs You? Is it a disordered liver giving you yellow skin or costive bowels,