Litchfield enquirer., 1880-07-29
Danbury News Items.
The peanut rooster is now run by ice wal

The peanut roaster is now run by ice water
John Coffee New Britain, was fined $40
for assaulting his wife. Coffee settled.
Counterfeiting has finally got down to
where it really concerns US. Bogus ten cent
pieces are afoat.
The New Milford steamboat goes SO slow
| that it has a system of whlstling to show
| which way it is going.
Jupiter Pluvious of Waterbury. wept over
Danhury Monday night, and didn't use a
handkerchief either.
Sport says he can go without food for four
| months. man who keeps two dogs must
| expect to.
Mrs. George F. Hoyt, of Stamford, attempt
ed to poison herself last week, but was pre-
vented by two officious doctors.
Lawyer slade of Bridgeport was accidental
y drawn for juror. Lawyers are not made
for jurors, but jurors for lawyers.
A Bridgeport mans conscience got to work
ing the other day and PANIED out $3.50 for
the benefit of Waterbury firm: Bridgeport
feels very much discouraged.
A very drunken Danbury man was arrested
in Bridgeport, Wednesday, on a charge of OBJ
structing public travel by lying on the railway
| track.
A letter was received at the Colchester post
Office last week, directed to the Rev. Ephraim
Little who has been dead ninety-thr years.
1t was sent to the dead letter Office.
Geo. W. Lyon, of Stamford, had quantity
of laudanum pumped out of him. Friday.
There was only an ounce of it when it went
down, but George thought there must have
been barrel of it coming up. .t
The Stamford Herald says Clark Fisher who
recently escaped from the jail gang here, was
in Stamford last week. Why the editor didn't
seize him and restore him to the bosom of the
county family is not explained.
Mrs. Becky, of New Haven, was witness
in an assault case. Mrs. Buckley not having
| a complete mastery of the English language,
| and wishing to show the court how one party
was getting the best of the other in the fight
| took the head of the city attorney under her
| arm and went through the motions of ''chan-
| Gerry" with the other hand to the lively inter-
estrof the court and the unbounded embarrass.
ment of the city attorney.
Art promises to make an important advance.
A Danbury lady who dahbles somewhat in
| sculpture was preparing plaster for a cast the
other evening when she was called awav,
She had the flour and the lime mixed and was
| about to add the water from pan at hand
\ The call was of social nature but it delayed
her 50 long that she put of preparing the cast
until the next morning. AZ >s}t
| Through thG night rats got at her prepare
ration of lime and -four aud parteok heartily
of it. Their thirst they quenched from the
pan of water. To the rats it must have ap-
/ peared like pretty good lay out, aud some.
thing strictly provideutial. 1t is Likely, also,
that they did not expect to look again upon
similar demonstration in their behalf in thistle.
So they went in. In about half hour flour
and lime when joined to water solidifies. This
| did.
When the sculptor went to her studio the
next morning she found that she had ten per-
feet casts of rats stomach, but did not take
them from the packages. Being Yankee she
took practical view of the matter, and
contract to relieve the neighborhood of rats,
and made 100 per cent. thereby, and is now
in good circumstances and respected by every
body. Thus we see that art elevates and en-
mobiles those engaged init.