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

Imitation is the sincerest of iattery.
Flstterers are the worst kind OF enemies.
Lovely flowers are the smiles of Gods
goodness.
Mr.. Gladstone says the great defect OF the
English people is mental Incidence.
Many men have reason to feel grateful to
the women who refuse to marry them.
Vicious friends are like bad corns-they'll
make you suffer terribly If You don't cut
them.
Children are directed "to speak when
spoken to-" and scolded for answering
back"
The fall census of stove-legs is nearly COM
pleted. There seems to have been a terrible
fatality during the summer.
Love and esteem are the first principles o
friendship, which always is imperfect where
either OF the two Is wanting.
"Isn't your husband little bald?" asked
one lady Of another, in store, yesterday.
"Ther5 isn't bald hair In bis head" was
the hssty reply of the wife.
Look not mournfully into the past, it
comes not back sgain; wisely improve the
present, it is thine; go forth to meet the
shadOwy future without fear aud with a
manly heart.
al expect" said a worthy Quaker, /" to
pass through this world but once II, there
fore. there be any kindness can show, or
anything l can do for my fellow man, let
me do II now. Let me not neglect or defer
IL, for i shall not pass this way again."
Genius Is not single power, but g CON-
bination Of great powers. 1t reasons, but
tits not reasoning; It iud ses, bnt It is not
Judgment; IL imagines, but is is not i'm
agination; 1t feels deeply and fiercsly, but Il
Is not passion. IL is neither, because il Il
all.
One OF the solons of the school board pro
poses to compromise ths Bible difficulty by
reading extracts from the purely poetic
parts of the book, which may offend no ones
religious scruple-. This Il good sugges-
ton. How would the song OF Solomon do
Chicago Times.
lift indeed be true that the gentle Gambia
OF Auckland has been gorging himself to re
pletion upon the crews OF one English anC
two American vessels, we can not, though
lamenting the occurrence, repress a certain
feeling of patriotic curiosity as to which o.
the two kinds of sailors were found to make
the best eating.
So near are the boundaries OF panegyri
and 'invective that worn out sinner il
sometimes sound to make the best de
CAoAhlDA dknAnSS Sill ms same nlk1 SEA
soned descriptions which, in his un
regenerate state, served TO influence his
appetites in new province of a moralist
will serve him "a little turned) TO expos
she enormity OF those appelites in oIhe
men.
The character OF gentleman is a relstiv
term, which can hardly subsi st where Their
isno marked distinction of persons. Tn
diffusion of knowledge, of artificial and in
teileetual quality, tends to level this dis
tinc;ioU, and to confound that nice percep
ton and high sense of honor which arises
ron conspicuousness OF situation ant
perpetual attention TO personal proprietN
and the claims to personal res pect.
Grace In great measure Is natural gift
elegance implies cultivation, or something
of more artificial character. A rustic, un
educated girl may be graceful but an ele
CANT woman must be accom- plIshed and wei
trained. 1t Is the same with things as Wit
persons; we talk of a graceful tree, but OF al
elegant house or other building. Animal
a mSy % 1t gIscslui, put they can not DO eie
CANT Inc movements OF kitten or
young fawn are full of grace, but to cal
them elegant would be absurd. risi -'t
When see fashionable table set out il
all its magnifcence, 1 fancy that / see govt
and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, wit
other innumerable distempers, lying Il
ambuscade among the dishes. Nature de
lights IN the most plain and simple diet
every animal but man keeps 20 one dish
Herbs are the food OF this species, fab @
that, and flesh of third. Man falls upol
everything that comes in his way; not tn
smallest fruis or excrescence Of the earth
scare berry or mushroom can escap
,him,-Addison.i
The princess OF Wales is determined tina
her mother-in-law shall not have any storie
90 Tell Albert Edward when he comes bacl
from India, and so she is going to spend tn
winter with her father and mother In Den
mark. The old people are highly respectable
and engaged In the king business to SOM
extent.