The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-03
WISE AND OTHERWISE.


WISE AND OTHERWISE.
Please remit.
A broken spirit-A brandy smash.
Enuff good LUX will ruin emmy man.
Vice makes a nan Running, virtew makes
him wize.
Cheap transportation the problem of the
sge-Free passes.
The hornet is beautifully defined as a red
hot child of nature.
Mississippi editor threatens to put
mans nose in parenthesis.
Experience teaches a good many things,
but don't learn us but phew.
The only really natural thing thare liz
about emmy man il hiz constance.
Experience is a pocket compass that few
think of consulting until they have lost their
way.
Most of the shadows that cross our path
through life are caused by our standing in
our light.
Smirkins looked at a painting of a pig,
and pleasantly asked: "Who is that pig
ment for?"
A Terre Haute man, who has been trying
to make both ends meet, is living on head
cheese and OK tail soup.
The Washington monument is conspicu-
Gus example of what grateful people can
accomplish when united.
The Utica Herald says the moon is serious
ly cracked. Never mind, we will have new
moon soon.-Danbury News.
Our nervous editor, whenever he gets ex-
cited, goes into the composing room-and
becomes composed. Petersburg Appeal.
A Texas man recently declined to receive
a telegraphic dispatch from yellow fever
locality, for fear he might catch the disease
A pert young miss in the New street
school, Thursday, corrugated the noun
paint as, "paint, artist, painting. "-Danbury
News.
have seen cid villains who were kom-
psritively pure. they had either worn out
their vices, their vices had wore out them,
don't know which.
There is nothing like courage in misfor-
tune. Next TO faith in providence, a mans
faith in himself is his salvation. 1t is the
secret of all power and success.
A New Jersey tobacconist, with commend
able frankness, advertises, 81 shall continue
to keep on hand imported cigars of my own
manufacture" There are good many New
Jersey tobaccOnisls.
"Do you want to shake dice for a turkey?''
asked a Danbury boarding house keeper of a
patron. eff it is like the turkey we had for
dinner" replied the boarder, thoughtfully,
SIT is old enough to shake its own dice"
A gentleman going up the Sixth avenue,
New York. met a laborer, to whom he said
evil you tell me if am half way to Gen.
trail Park?" "Faith, an / will" was the
reply, ''if you tell me where you started
from"
The latest meaning evoked out of Shakes
peare's text comes from Boston. A mem
Der of society. who appeared as Emelia. in
responding to Othello's query OF do you
think nv wife be honest?" "Honest?-M-y
L-o-r-dp'
Irish "boy" Ito benevolent old gentleman)
"Maybe yer honor III give poor boy some
thing. Sure, it's dissolute orphin, anC
deaf and dumb, ami" Absent-minded old
gentleman quitting his hand in his pocket
"Poor fellowr
A close-fsted fellow out west died. and OF
his tombstone was inscribed: "He tina
giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord" "A
neighbor passing by saw it, and observed
that he reckOned the Lord didn't owe tina
chap red cent.
A Titusville paper says: canaan called a
one of our shoe stores yesterday and vainl!
essayed to get on either Nos. IL, II or L
shoes. The storekeeper then suggested tba
he should put on thinner pair of stocking
and try on the box.
A good brother in a Baptist church O
Howard county, this state, while giving hi
experience, not long ago, said: "Bretherin
I've been tryin' this nigh onto forty yea
- to serve the Lord and get rich both at onci
and / tell yer it's mighty hard sleddinW
Quilp and his wife had bit of contention
the other day. ''I own that you have NOR
brilliancy than IL said the woman, "but
have the better judgment" EYES," sal
Quilp. your choice in marriage show
that" Quilp was informed that he was
brute.
Chicago wants to have the next world
fair held there. SIN the first place." say
the Boston Post, sit isn't certain that tn
next world will have fair, and, in the SCI
ond place, those who'd be likely to attend
will prefer a more pious town in which |
celebrate it."
Notwithstanding all the efforts of the al
thorities OF Norwalk, Conn.,, to enforce I'll
early closure of bar rooms, resident of thu
town asserts that a little before daybreak o
Monday of last week he saw meteor
large as the moon, which moved about in a
erratic manner for more than six minutes.
A jackass on Colonel Seldon's place