The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-10-28
WISE AND OTHERWISE.

bubocs
The duck of a lover makes goose of
husband.
Advice to Autumn pOets-Take your
leaves and go.
A circular saw-A proverb that goes tie
round Of society.
1t is a wise provision of nature that men
without brains never feel the need of chem.
The good little bootblack's epitsph-Gone
to shine among the angels.-Brooklyn
Argus.
Beware of that friend who comes with the
steel of knife concealed in the soft velvet
of a compliment.
A csseof lesded minion-The colored slave
who was recently riddled with balls in the
outskirts of Havana.
So General Longstreet has gone to keeping
hotel. No doubt he will continue his habit
of making famous charges.
Distant relations-People who imagine
they have a claim to rob you il you are rich
and to insult you il you are poor.
You need never scruple to seize Time by
the forelock, for HEN be pretty sure to pull
out yours, ii you live long enough.
The difference between perseverance and
obstinacy is, that enc often comes from
strong will, and the other from strong
won't.
Seasonable advice: No economical man
will steal his thanks giving turkey now, as
the bird would eat up twice its cost before
wanted.
"If Smith undertakes to pull my ears"
said JONES'" he will just have his hands
full, now!" The crowd looked at the mans
ears, and thought so, too!
A favorite performance with reformers
lust now is to sit down over bottle Of
whisky and discuss the imperative necessity
of adopting cider the national beverage,
Lightning struck a colporteur down in
New Jersey last week. 1t is gradually
working round to secular book agents, and
then won't the carnage be great aud glOri-
Gus?
The Rev. Florence Mccarthy, of Chicago,
introduces a new feature in his church
notices on Sundays by stating after each
one that "no person is welcome after the
singing of the first hymn"
small white dog from second story
window asssiling with canine msledictions a
flock of sheep, is a spectacle of vaior which,
when once seen, can not be etfaCed from
memOry.-Miners' Journal.
John b. Cough says that the man who
throws an egg at him will pass over the mys-
tic river which flows between life and death
ceases to echo.-Free Press.
number of old continental hats were
found in a building torn down in Philadei-
place had been sailed In behalf of the Cen.
tennial.-Rochester Democrat.
Dancing is said to be on the decline In
London, and polite society appears to be
acting on the hint given by the Shah OF
Persia when he inquired of the Prince OF
Wales, at q ball, "Why don't you employ
servants To do this for your"
A boy at a crossing having begged for
something OF gentleman, the latter
told him he would give him something as be
came back. The boy replied: "YOur honor
would be surprised If you knew the money
loose by giving credit in that way"
There is in the moral straits current
from rightto wrong, but no refux from
wrong to right, for which destination we
must hoist our sails aud ply our oars in
cesssntly, or night and the tempest will
overtake US, and we shall shrek out in
vain from the pillows, and iTrecoyerably
sink.
A little boy of four years. standing in the
moonlight by his sister, aged six, said &c
her, "Isn't God good man, Nelly, to give
us such q beautiful moon % "Oh, Freddy
said the sister, in earnest remOnstrance
don't call God a man, for If ever there was
gentleman Pun sure God is onei" Fact
Christian Union.
Out of thirty-five Vassar college girls who
had studied Latin, Greek, French, music
drawing, botany and mineralogy for FIVE OF
six years, twenty seven married poor men
and have to do their own homework. One
of them said the other day that she'd rather
have a recipe for sweet pickles than all the
Latin ever taught.
At the fair OF the agricultural society o
Otis, Mass, the horse of the Rev. Mr.. Smith
pastor of one of the churches of that vii
lsge, won the trotting race. When the re
suit was announced, the village paper tell
us, "The band played with peculiar emphs
sis the air OF that popular hymn, Nearer
my God, to Thee"
The Sunday statute Of Vermont provides
that "no person shall travel on Sunday ex
cept from necessity or charity" And thu
Supreme Court of the state has accordingly
decided that zone travelling upon the Sab
bath without an excuse can not mainta air
an action against the town for any damage
he may suffer through defects In its high
ways.
A Jail chaplain, finding prisoner exhibit
ing, as he thought, signs of true religious
conviction, gave him Bible, and afterwarc
exerted himself TO procure a communication
OF his sentence. Succeeding in the latter
effort. he informed the man of his approach
ing liberty. His gratitude knew no bounds
He called him bis deliverer, and graspini
his hand at parting, added: "Here is your
Bible. / may as we'll return IL TO you, tor
hope 1 shall never want it again."
It's all right to talk about bringing
up a child in the way he should go,
but the other day when Third street
woman set out to do it man halted
at the gate and shouted: $50 in, mother
cripple the boy for life" And
woman leaned over the fence and screamed
why don't you cut bis throat?" And boy
Climbed on the allav fanca. waved bis bat