Year: 1873



 When three Irishmen dug a ditch, for which they were to receive four dollars, the trouble was how to divide four among three, and have it equal. One of them remained quiet, and the other two at last deferred to his judgement, as he had been to school, and knew arithmetic, to make the division. He did it at once, saying, ''It's aisy enoughi Sure there's two for you two, and two for me, too." "Begor- "a, /" said one of his co-laborers, ''what a great thing it is to have learningp' 'And," said the other, as he pocketed his single dollar, F'and to know 'rithmetic tool It's the like of us two'd never divided them four dollars equally.

 The Boston Advertiser tells the follow ing story:-In plague-ridden Chelsea they indicate house where small pox is with & red flag by day and red lantern by night. A good old lady from the remote districts was visiting her daughter in our neighboring city, and having horror of the prevailing malady, summed every red light most carefully. The other cold night she started alone to visit her niece out in Powderhorn. The daughter going to the front door an hour later was some what surprised to find her mother still

  nearly frozen to death and just able to gasp out, ''Mercy on us, Lizzie, the small pox is drefful thick here! Every car that has gone by yet has had light out for it."

 From the Danbury News:

 Mrs. John Baggs, of Omaha, has left Mir. John Baggs, taking the money bags, and leaving John to hold the little empty Baggs.

 They speak of Q promising boy in Sher- man not as one who will grow up to be a great man but as one who has the materi- in him for big funeral.

 An out-of-town lady fell on the walk in front of the Opera House, Monday even- ing, breaking one ofherlegs in two places, and scattering pint or more of sawdust te the four winds of heaven.

 A woman near Hartford recently took & friendless boy from the town house, to bring up for the ministry, but the experi- ment was failure, as the child froze to death last week. That female philanthro- pist will see the time when to be frozen stiff will be luxury worth hankering aft CT.

 A careless man put lighted pipe in his coat tail pocket, Saturday evening, and few moments later startled people by the appearance of smoke and flame from that part of him. As soon as he was put out, he gratefully explained to his deliverers that, Che thought the weather was modera- tin d-n sudden"

 A young lady recently died in neigh boring town. Two years ago this winter she was the picture of health. At that time she attended ball, wearing a low necked, short sleeve dress. The cold she caught by this imprudence cuIminated in consumption, from which she died. We don't publish this as 8 warming we know better-but merely as an incident. There is one boy in Danbury who won't get anything in his stocking Christmas. He left pan of ashes on the front stairs, l to follow an organ grinder. and moment 1 later his indulgent father came crashing out of the front door and down the front l stoop, accompanied by that pan and it's contents, and looking for all the world like real god rising in the clouds. For few minutes that boy though he had pile driver for an ancestor.

 Brompton, a conductor on the New Ha- ven and Hartford road, is a gentleman, but timid withal. The other day he re- ceived telegram for one of his passen- gers and going to the car door he timidly enquired, "Is there Hone in this car?" For an instant there was no response, when little gentleman squealed ont, "Why don't you use your boot leg?" This gave l. Brompton so much confidence that he bribed brakeman to canvass the other cars.