The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-04-21
WISE AND OTHERWISE.

The Mississippi state lunatic asylum is full
80 the legislature will continue to occupy the
state house.
Composition by a little boy-Subject:
s'The Horse" "The horse is a very useful
animal; it has four legs-one on each cor
ner,
A missing man was lately advertised for
and described AS having Roman nose. He
won't be found Such nose as that will
never turn up.
Senator Logan's home organ says that Lo-
gan is indispensable in congress. If that is
so, let us have Olive. She is an improve
ment on the general. Boston Post.
A young lady who had lately given or
der to millner for her bonnet, said: "You
are to make it plain, bat at the same time
smart as / sit in a conspicuous place in
church"
Murder is a very serious thing, sir, said
an Arkansas judge to a convicted prisoner;
it is next to stealing horse or mule,
sir; and shall senu you to state prison for
six years, sir"
"Did you execute this instrument without
fear or compulsion from your husband?"
asked the Judge. Fear? Compulsion! He
compel me! You don't know me, judge
Courier Journal.
you've destroyed my peace of mind"
said a respondent lover to a truant lass. ''It
can't do you much harm, John, for twas an
amazing small piece you had anyway" was
the quick reply.
man shot in his own house" Is the
heading which the western papers give to
the Mcnamara affair. Spilkins wants to
know if this wasn't case of hitting man
" right where he lived"
The New York Tribune refers to Judge
warden's Life of Chsse'' as ''forthcom-
ng treatise on the life and services of Judge
Warden, with occasional biographical refer
ence to Chief Justice Chase"
In California obituary it is stated that
the deceased was person of romantic ma
ture. He placed the ibreech of his gun in
the fire, and looking down the muzzle, de-
parted hence instantaneously.
Says an exchange adam had one con-
ISOLATION when he fell. Fifteen or twenty &C
,quaintances didn't stand on the opposite
corner and laugh at bis mishan-n They
were probably too busy docking at Eve.
Habit is very strong with some people.
1t was only the other day that an antiquated
matIOn turned to the column of births in
her Avorite English paper, saying. 81 won
der if there is anybody born thatI know"
Senator Sumner has gone where proof
readers are not known. His friends con-
graduate themselves that heidi not see the
issue of the Cave Echo, which punctuated
his last words-"Take care of my civil
rights, Bill"
On ca Prairie, nesr Lafayett Ind, is
little hat four feet high, with forty foot
lightning rod on it. The proprietor being
asked il ne was afraid of lightning, replied,
'''Not a bit; but it keeps those id kght-
ming rod 6ellers from striking
A pupil in the deaf and dunED asyluha at
Hartford, &vho saw the Essex statesman ON
the train bsarDing Summers remains, wrote
out this description of him: =" saw Zen
Butler in the drawing-ear, and his eye
opens nice, but his other eye somewhat
crossshuts."
A correspondents of the::'xinchester News
says orc of the most important acts so far
passed by the Virginia Legislature is "an act
for the protection of deer in Frederick
county, and adds: General Washington
killed the last deer in Frederick a little over
q hundred years ago."
The National Baptist gives the following
as the epitaph on the grave of an eminent
! Baptist divine and an especial authority in
casuistry, Rev. Levi Philetus, Dobbs, DID,:
Pnt away the steei-bowed glasses.
That the doctor used to wear;
He no longer needs their assis-
lance; he's climbed the golden stair.
A farmer was walking with a friend
through a beautiful meadow, when he
CHANGED to observe thistle growing thriftily
on the opposite side of the fence. Immedi-
ately he sprang over and cut it off close to
the ground. SIS that your field Y'' asked the
other. 80, no; but bad weeds don't care
much for fences. If L should leave that
thistle 70 blossom In my neighbours field, l !