Year: 1875

We clip the following from the Danbury News

 Much of what we cannot help is the poor.

 A statitfon estimates that courtships average three tons of coal each.

 The most melancholy spectacle in the world IS cold pancake

 People who live in 8 we'll neighborhood are fortunate. Especially if it is a good well. -4.

 Between the boy with boil and the boy with lath rolls an impossible gulf

 When a single man gets into trouble he goes to drinking. WheE married man is afflicted he goes down street.

 There was an abundance of water cover- ing up the icy walks, Thursday, but peo- pie seemed to feel just as mad when they got up as if they had struck the solid ice.

 The new girl in Munson street family asked her mistress if she should throw a basin of slops from the window. "Not if any of the neighbors are looking" was the prudent reply.

 Some people don't appear to have any more sense than bow-legged clam. Near ly every water pipe and hydrant are fro zen up, and here some maniac sends us a sixteen verse temperance poem.

 Among the very few occasions when a man loses his presence of mind, and for gets to smile, is when he has jumped into his sleigh, whipped up his horse, and discovers that he has neglected to unhitch 1t. a 5aa-

 The careful farmer will exhamine his telegraph poles these cold days and see if they are liable to suffer from frost. Old carpets are good to protect them from the driving winds. In the spring they should washed with strong solution of soda and vinegar. This will prevent the sun from injuring the parts frozen under the bark.

 A fertile brained Danbury man, who cannot sleep on his back without coniur- ing up series of distressing figures and situations, has hit upon singularly efec- tive plan to prevent getting in that posi- tion through the night. The contrivance consists of tack driven through a shin gle. The shingle is fastened to his back, loosely, and when he turns over from his side the tack is driven into his back, and he at once springs up in the air, and d"dhCO WuOu uC COuCO uOWu. 1u0 HrSL night he bounded up distance of eight feet. and pulled all the clothes off his wife, but it awoke him almost immdiate- ly. He is getting more used to the sensa- tion now, and raeely jumps over three feet when the tack strikes him.

 An English physician recently removed a section of 8 patients liver, placed it on plate, scraped it carefully, and returned it to it's place, fully restored to it's normal action. This promises to work revolu- tion in the treatment of disease, and in a few years we will have an addition to do- mestic literature something like this Husband, wish you would take Johns right lung down to the doctor this mornI ing, and have the middle valve fxedp or Twill you stop in to doctors when you come home this noon, and see if he has Mary's liver mended, as she wants to go out to tea this evening"" This practice q will be so common in time, we are sure, D that none of the neighbors will be in any way startled to see wife with vail tied around her head leaning out of a bedroom window, and shouting to receding hus- band: "Jer-e-niGh! Tell Dr. Scrapem to send up Willie's right kidney at once. whether it is done or not. He's had it' there more'n a week, and the child might as well be without any kidney, and done with it!' ......-.-.