Litchfield enquirer., 1881-09-01

The upright paragrapher renders unto scis- Sors the things which are scissors.
 Brush light" murmurs the great electric inventor to the boy in barber shop.
 The clam has larger mouth, in proportion to it's size. than human being Yet clam never talks about it's neighbor. ~~ ,,g.
 Very little jewelry is worn at the seaside this summer. Much of it is left at home with good nncles who furnish E Ehayeling funds,
 A New York policeman has succeeded in deciphering one of tine inscriptions on the obelisk. luis, '.AioyeEe on orsI'H club ye.YJ
 Mary Andersons stage kisses are said te be SO cold that the party receiving them, has to take immediate precautions against an attack of bronchitis.
 'You're a dear girl, " he sighed after paying for two dishes of ice cream and three-fourths of pie for her, and she thought him just too awfully sweet and affectionate.
 For five years after man leaves Quebec and settles Tn New England, he is carried along in the census of that city. This is to gise'him chance to get homesick' and re- turn.
 EO'Mullgan--gG Its drink, sprr, f'sstle curse of ouid Oireiand. Drink l-that makes a man bate his wife, starve his, children. go out to shoot his landlord-and miss him too, beaadHD O94l6m SJ34IOoE.S
 There is an awful state of atfalrs in a little Michigan tpyp wheFea type. setter spbstifuted the word AsWido Vss" for >twindows. The ed itor wrote: "The windows of the church need washing badly. They are too dirty for any use, and are disgrace to our village" A cynical Benedict says one gets an ade. quate idea of the desperate straits to which Ruth was reduced in the land of Moab only by remarking that she clave unto her mother in-law.
 klHe teacAsf Sad bsesaeliog the spopils.of the life and character of George Washington, first in war;, first in peace, apd first ip the hesftA of fas eodntf yraed. ( As ilks5rative of the universal familiarity of the people of the United States, old and young, with his face and fqns as we'll as lss life aatfsefsieess she asked. "And whose features are familiar to you all, children ?" Instantly twenty hands shot upward and twenty voices shouted, F Il Iyd- ia Pinkham's!" Children are curious creat- ures. merchant.possessed fine yacht, Had money, house and lacht {; In business he trusted, and therefore he busted. And now it is all 'tgone to pacht." Sim Thimblekin purchased yacht And himself fine sailor he thacht But he capsized one day. M9tHt4 midetof the hagJG a.1gal 4
 Of these rhymes. now the weather is hacht,
 m tes Rat pspfsas s'ss fips fefspssghs 'h..ir8iZlI @ They'll be voted "hum,"
 And the authors court-marialed and shacht.
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 A Milford idea of finn is digging up hitching posts.
 The oldest man in Cornwall is dead There are several applicants for the vacancy.
 The Bridgeport Standard people are getting the full benefit of the season. Senior Candee is taking in Saratoga Prindle fS off isonAe ,.l. wheIels AffFYf the carri9Es has beet
 MI Ra4 hhe4Sfa af New Y K. once of RldgehelG WAsm f6w AS7ast week. Ben looks as much like grenader as he did when the old Seventeenth was heautifying Virginia.
 A young man with pale, interesting cast of countenance, and two heavy packages done up in paper. appeared at the Birmingham hotel, and sttks ikts9ahusIsi Aiisa6pear- ed The packages were found to contain bricks and straw. So the stranger was not Judge Toarges.
 Mr. William Sherry went on a fishing ex- cursion last week. We are informed that he caught. tRa. small fish, ore sun fish Ahe other 4 Si9 isl Ai5fJ J5a9f 9sf& f&a aat no doubt dsgusted with his luck, committed them to the still waters, and came home with out losing any large fish.