The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-08-05
WISE AND OTHER WISE.

WISE AND OTHERWISE.
Mr.. Cuff has charge of the Hartford bath
ing house. The boys respect him.
The righ, sort of thing to have during the
hot weather. cool thousand or two.
An exchange says that "Gov. Tilden en-
Dyed the modified hustle OF Saratoga"
When was 1t modified ?-Boston Post.
NJ. Quad mas dedicated his book to the
Pawnees. His various uncles we're highly
pleased until they found it was the Indians
he meant.
The best explanation yet offered FOR the
disappearance of Donaldson and his fellow
balloonist is, that they must have had fall
ling out.-N. Y. Com. Ad.
Propositions of marriage in Nevada are
written on postal cards, and the answer
comes by return mail, "Come on with your
preacher !7-[ Detroit Free Press.
The Boston Traveller declares that Gu
cumber Feelings will kill cockroaches. This
is only another deception. We shall continue
TO use cannon.-Courier-Jou
The pelicans are eating up the fish in Cali
fornia waters, and the worst of it is that
when they have eaten all they can they fill
their baskets to entertais their relatives.
When President Grant saw that Ssrtoris
DdDY c1cuCn It's lltbi0 nSeo ohN oA1nO ebOAA
defantly in his face, he is-aid to have ex-
claimed with ioy: "AppomattOX is 10
whereof
''Then you won't lend me your velocipede,
hey?D inquired one boy OF another. 'No /
won't" Every well, then the next time oUr
chimney burns, you shan't come into our
back yard and boiler"
AS convincing proof that the grassnoppers
read the papers, it is mentioned that they
have this season entirely avoided a certain
county which was mentioned last year as
raising the poorest quality of wheat in
Kansrs.
She locked him up in the third story
back, and every now and then during the
night, he would poke his head out OF the
window and cry "Oh, is this a land of lib
erty?' 1t helped to keep the cats quiet, but
had no other effect.
A married man bought spring chicken
in the market che other morning, and now
he thinks the reason it was called spring
chicken is because it will take him units
next spring to carve it, unless he uses nitro
Observation-Disclosures Herald.
Dio Lewis is now living entirely on black
berries and oatmeal, purchased with the
money he gets for giving good advice. He
saws cucumoers should never be eaten un'
less LOOrOuRQlN COOkcO, duU bnOJ uhS'
be fully ripe before they are picked from
the tree.
General Sherman, in his book, says Ger
eral Grant was not drunk at Shiloh, auC
that be believes it could be proven that there
was nothing there to be had to get drunk on
General Sherman would only need prove
the first proposition. The second would b
conclusive.-St. Louis Times.
While a priest in one of the Catholi
Churches at Boston was saying mass re
Gently, FIVE year old shaver in one of tn
pews, beholding the priestly beretts, jump
ed 40 and astonished his parents, the con
oregation, the priest, and the acolytes, b.
yelling out, I" Oh, shoot that hat"
A large number of Americans, now il
England, celebrated their national declara
ton of independence, by a fete held on tn
9Th of July, at the Crystal Palace. Not on
Of the speakers abused the British. Ws
II that they recollected that they were in
glass house, and so must not throw stones
Punch.
4 New London man has fine dog whic
ne is educating by throwing sticks int
the water aud making the dog bring theI
ont The other day the dog mistook II
bnov of a lobster pot tor the missile, and, {
no Deruasion could induce him to let 2
of II. boat was put out tor him ar
rescued him just as he was sinking e.
hausted.
IL has been matter of wonder that Il
grand old Athenisn, Socrates, who was u
visest man of his time, never wrote an
thing But the sage had an excellent re
SON for locking up his pen and ink ar
never allowing himself to look for then
Contemporary with Socrates there was
litarary swell in Athens by the name
Waite. and :be old man was afraid tn
White would find fault with his Greek.
,Courier-Journal.
II comes hard to baveto say anything di
-Dsrsqing OF that intelligent and usual
we'll behaved animal, the elephant, but pc
ME can't lssys bs closing their ears to q
tr,fh through fear OF ipiuriDg tie BUSH
Of the great moral shows. In South AT
tsa.s are trees that bear intoxicating fru
and every year the elephants go there al
eat il. and get so drunk and riotous To
fheir human friends in this country wou
6a sshaned of them. 1t may be said tn
fha south African Temperance Societ
~-ol,t 70 have zone and cut down q
tress l1nr ago, but this doesn't excuse q
aIepnans.- -Courier-J0urnals