The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-10-02
trap I've set Just inside the drawing room

trap I've set Just inside the drawing room
doorl"
"How is the corpse?' asked an Ann
Arbor medical student OF the picker. "The
corpse?" was the reply. s'the corpse? oh,
it's in the best of spirits' For proof of
which he showed the liquor that il was put
up in.-Keokuk Constitution.
Some recently discovered inscriptions on
burned bricks bring to light the astounding
revelation that King Ahasuerus hanged Ha-
man because he invented the acordeon and
put the price down to $1.75 so that every
young man might have one.
New Duluth city ordinance gives the
awful warning that 'any cow, OF either sex,
hereafter found sporting bell or ringing
the same within said limits, shall, upon con-
viction thereof, be subjected to fine or i'm
rrisonment, or both, at the discretion of the
court"
One of the best cures we know of for small
pox is to have a fellow poke his head in at
the door of the patients room and whisper
in stage aside. SIS he dead yeti I'm after
that ulster!' We have been there and know
what it is to live just to spite fellow
New York Commercial Advertiser.
In an account of large funeral in Boston
lately, the writer remarked that reserved
seats were filled by mourners during the
rites" Judge of his establishment upon read
ing what the printer had transformed the
sentence into: Preserved meats were spilled
by mourners during three fights"
At Dubuque wedding the other day
among the wedding presents ostentatiously
displayed was a 81 900 bill, present from
the doting father to his darling daughter.
After the guests bad departed the old man
coolly rolled up the bill and put il in his
vest pocket, and that was the end of it.
The Burlington Hawkeye says: "An in.
genious man has invented an attachment
for shot guns which will pick bird shot out
of a mans leg faster and more easily than
his fellow hunters can do itwith their pen.
knives. 1t is intended for the exclusive use
of city sporting clubs
A clergyman who had just performed q
wedding ceremony. and was filing out a
| blank descriptive of the parties asked the
husband what bis business was. 81 am q
wine merchant and have been a shoemaker, u
| was the reply Yes chimed in the bride
You can Just set him down as a sherry cob
bier"
II can't hold this baby any longer" called
out the young husband and father. "It's
getting too heavy" "Pshaw, Edward" re-
| piled a muffied voice from the other side oi
| the room, you used to hold me for hours
and never complain, and baby is but feath.
er compared to what was" ''I was fool, u
| said Edward. And she was too sleepy tc
dispute with him.
At Sunday breakfast table: Pate rfamillas
to son and heir-"Glad to see you dressed fol-
| Sunday-school, George; 1t will be the first
| time you have been there for six weeks. y
| George know it, father; but Tom Gre en
| says the new pirate and cannibal books have
come, and Pm going every Sunday, steady
| The melancholy days have come,
The saddest of the year,
When taxes reach maturity,
And myriad bills appear;
When frosts FROM northern latitudes
Upon the breezes float,
And signs the editor to think
He has no ovetcoat.
-lenkers Gazette.