Litchfield enquirer., 1881-02-17
CLIPPINGS.

Babies are the coupons on the bonds of mat rlIllOny.ia I1JuN 9 'F
 When New York young man pops the questioning now says vLet's 'sconso oldateps
 Wheat is ssThrashed"s for the purpose of getting out the grain; boy is "thrashed" to get out the chaff.
 l*sOne difficulty about chip off'n the old block" said Deacon Searchly, lis that it's off'en of the old blockhead,r x Y S1A Brooklyn undertaker failed recently. , It is supposed his, customers got too proud to ride in his shabhyeh hearse.
 A New York patent medicinist advertlses an ''elixir of youth" one bottle of which will prevent a persons ever growing any older Dare say. One dose kills dog.
 J Comnis issioner LeDuc should plant his re
 ports earlier in the season. That for 1879 is
 just issued, and it takes the excitement out of an lagriculturaireport to have it come along a
 year or two behind time.
 '1 declare" said gentleman to his lady
 love, ~''you are very handsome" "Pooh," said the lady, tso.you would say # you did
 not think so." "And so you would think"
 answered be- sfhough I should snotgs say sor Y
 A Boston man has just been showing all the sights of that charming city to New Yorker
 "And now" says he, 'tell me honestly, is not
 this city thoroughly unique?" New Yorker:
 ''Yes, indeed j, unus, one, equs, horse" < ,l
 "Jee, my dear" said a fond wife to her
 husband, who followed the piscatory profess sion, ''do brighten up littless you look SO slovenly. O, wha. an awful recollection it would be for me- fsyou. should get drowned looking so!sAs & kss& #S s li Valentine ne'salay issrapidly approaching, and salreadyM theteader apds sentimental young
 man cudgelng his brains for words to fill in
 such rhymes as true" and you" '.dartv and ''heart, ''love" and ''dove :" and '.bliss" and 1'kiss. Don't laugh at him, gentle reader you have been there yourself. . How we live at Pinchington Park. Papa lwho himself requires careful feeding, to eldest daughter, just returned home after long stay with dear Aunt Skinner, at ,Grundy. Grange): ou prefer the drumstick, Con. l stantia, know" Constantia (resigned): q
 never tasted any other part. pa." -AwTy tafls-thin Highlander saidsfhat he
 had sAeoldia. ahis head, originating in wet feet" She looked at him slowly from head
 to foot and back again, as if measuring the dis tance the cold had to travel, and then eiacu tlated,. ''Gracious me !lyon.must have wet your | feet some time last year.
 l A gentleman not unknown in literary circles was present at one ofthe Pope'sreceptions The holy fatfier 9approached5 him fand said
 You are an American Are you Catholic ! or Protestant3" Holy ufatheE." ,replied nur,
 friendA sIams neitbef satho olie nora Prols
 testan9 I ana jo6raalists &fIis- holiness
 laughed heartily, and moved on to some one else
 FROM THE DANBURY NEWS :. : "A Sandy Hook girl has swallowed horse | shoe The borse escaped.
 | A New Haven thief steals, milk pails, not finding anything else worth taking Gi
 an mpsdnent in his speech by cutting his
 throat
 l. Congress lIss appropriated $5, 900 to be ex-
 pended in chloride of lime for the improve iynen of Noswalk earberg s-A <>S-~s.~a r wilfiam von r66ei, r 8 Sr fIaf fIafwMEnsaon. Ma Is is a
 gaas, sss a ss 'asss S,s ,eare' fever Governor Bigelow had the teethache and sat for his picture in the same week. That's Ithe stun IthesPuritans were made of = I A monster dam is to be built in Norwich. H luc sCcs Opusiitu7o tnuCH iohScT Ou tne Dan- bury sidewalks we win want to borrow that ! dam.
 .ft5itngItn ttfEft1. fg -gl1 u4 A Stonington man shot at cat and nearly l hit young woman sitting in window. The
 next time he shoots at the cat he will. aim at the yennsI Iwenap.l rArH gE k "A Bfdgepqt agge9sIeman Vlo wears the cast-0H clothes of a New York jeweler, found $500 diamond pin in recent vest. Asit did not match the vest he returned it.