The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-11-04
WISE AND OTHER WISE.

WISE AND OTHER WISE.
& man who always Keeps cool-The ped
agogue.
A dangerous counterfeit-The enemy dis
guised as friend.
Poor Virginia City-Her lode is greater
tn IN she can hear.
The AtlanGlc's greeting to the Psciic-New
Jersey is Shopping oysters to San Francisco.
Way is the letter so frequently used in
writing? Because it's always round when
wanted.
Why are beans considered best when
baked? Because they're never good with
out bacon.
Some men are like microscopes. They be-
little everything great and noble that is
brought be ore them.
1t Is nonsense To speak of "trifles light as
air" The pressure OF air is IA pounds to
every square inch ofsuriace.
And still more troops for Cuba. Keep
this thing up about six months longer and
Spain will be reduced to- bowling soli-
tude.
Sympa by for the wronged Temecula In
disns is called for. AS it don't cost anything,
no doubt generous nation will award them
bushels of il.
"Tell Me Mary How to Woo Thee" is the
title of a recent ditty. Give her a pair OF
diamond earrings and tortoise shell comb
for her back hair.
An Iowa editor has been shot for speak
ing of man As "viol wretch" Served
him right. The dictionary must be upheld
if all the Editors in the country are laid
out.
A Nebrs ka doctor furnished a scalped
soldier with a piece of buffalo hide and
made his b 1ad as good as new. The only
trouble witt the hair is thst 1t sheds twice a
year.
Item for husbands-A Scranton physician
has just successfully removed one half of a
patients tongue, and is now overwhelmed
with inquiries from married men for mile =
around.
Here's richness. The Yale students are
talking of prosecuting the Odd Fellows who
spanked them with The broad sides of their
swords the other day.-N, Y. Commercial
Advertiser.
Well, well; Close upon the announcement
that Private Dslzsll's Ohio assembly
man, comes another that Mrs. Psrtington
(B. T. Shillsber) is up for state senator in
Massachusetts,.
Complaint is made that the choir leader
in an Orange county church always pitches
the hymn one octave too high. Why don't
the congregation pitch hym out OF the choir
and be done with it?
And now Gerald Massey has been sent to
g lunatic asyluml II this thing keeps on
Pnyate Dalzsll and Joaquin Miller will be
tearing around in canvass Jackets before
the spring birds sing Detroit Free Press.
Charles Turner, Of Wisconsin, left home
q We years ago TO IN iks a fortune and re-
turn and marry his own trus love. He
came back The other day and found she had
been married and was patiently waiting for
him.
The Brooklyn scandal with all its sequelse
is disappearing in a grand dissolving view.
The latest is motion to quash the Loader
indictment. Now pay the iurymen up what
they ask. and let the tOmahawk be inferred
beyond all possibility OF exhumstion.
One of the teachers in a public school at
Taunton, Mass, wishing to impress his pu-
pills, inquired the other day: "DO you think
my head is stuffed with cotton?" eyes,
sir - said very prompt but slightly deal
girl, who had misunderstood the question
For low cunningsyour country pumpkin
has no match. Aparty of rustic SWANS al
an Ohio country dance, jealous OF the city
bloods, who had driven out to enjoy he
sport, quietly unscrewed the fastenings oil
their buggy wheels and the result was three
break downs, runaway, and e general
smash mp on the road home.
Thomas Carlyle loses nothing of his
raspiness of manners in his old age. He
recently dined with a neighbor, and was sc
annoyed at ths table by loquscious busy
body who discoursed on art, that he refused
to enter into conversation, and at the END
OF the dinner suddenly said 10 the host
"For heavens sake put me In room bJ
myself, and give me pipe"
An exchange very sgonizngly asks
"won't somebody invent some sort of
button-bole for campaign purposes that will
stand the strain of candidates fingers
Something metallic, that will stsnd wes
and tear, or better still, an electrical button
hole, something that would make an
office-seeker feel as though he had beer
struck by lightning II he touched it?"
There is story told of Joaquin Miller
the poet, that when he was at Barnum''
Hotel, Broadway and Twentieth street, q few
weeks ago, he wrote to a friend In New Jer
sey and ended the letter: "Come and SO,
me when ever you can. L am ut Barnum's.'
The friend, who does not appear 10 have
been familiar with the names OF our city
hotels, nswered: "I am sorry you hav'
commenced to exhibit yourself. II you had
stuck to literature you would have made
your mark and fortune. whereabouts /.
the show now7"