The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-11-06
Little chunks of wisdom,
Little grains OF chaff,
Make the tout ensemble
ora paragraph.

Make the tout ensemble
ora paragraph.
-Hackensack Republican.
Whoever heard cornstalk2
How careless the weather has become all
at oncel-Free Press.
Don't get IN debt to a shoemaker IL YOU
would call your soul your own.
Did you ever see penny lunch7 This
Joke is farthing to go after.-Cincinnau
Saturday Night.
A knight errant Of the nineteenth century
--RunniDg TO get pitcher of beer before
bedtime.-Free Press.
IL the husband of Ida Lewis falls in the
water in the vicinity OF his wife he will
probably drown.-Buffilo Express.
1t is a wise bird that knows its own feather
New York Star. And a still wiser man
that knows the back of his OWL head.
There is no truth in the report that Eli
son has invented a soap that will do its own
washing and hang out the c.othes.-Graphic.
A sore nose is about the sorest thing q
mal can have located between his eyes II
calls for both the eyes and the noses.-N. Y.
Mail.
Counsel to witness--You'ra a nice sort of
fellow. you are! witness-Td say the same
OF you, sir, only I'm on my oath.-New
York Mail.
New York's death rate for the summer is
| lower than for twelve years past. Somebody
must have cleaned up his back yard DE
troit Free Press.
Mr.. Talmage has little bits of eyes.-New
York Herald. He should brace" up and
have more bits of eyes and not so much
"bits" OF mouth.
Tilden says now he can understand how
these ciphers came 10 be found on him. He
must have caught them while riding in the
street cars.-Hawkeye.
A Tennessee editor boasts that his wife is
the best in the state. He says: "She always
meets me with SMILE and she knows, too,
just how We like it mixed"
Anna Sidd, the Oldest woman in Vienna,
has Just died at the age of Ill years--Ex-
change. Twas very SId-duc- Gee 70 have the
old lady drop of so suddenly.
Richard Grant White says the term chm
wbiskers" is a barbarism. so. Richard, is
the term "chin music" II Is barberismmer
than the other.-Nsrristown Herald.
Women are funniest when they say moth
ing. Women are seldom funny.-Graphic
Women are gravest when they tell
funny story-and 50 is everyone VINO hears
them.
A patent two-horse street sweeper is not
pleasant thing to meet, but IL is not quite 80
bad as to pass a hallway containing deter
mined woman and a broom.-New Haven
Register
"Are you ready to die?" asks tract sent
70 this office. No, not yet; We want to see
how Ben Butler Will make IL down In Masss-
chusetts next Tuesday y.-Massillon Inde-
pendent.
The grand chamberlain Of the king of
Holland is Count SchImmelpenninck. Light
ming could never strike him twice in the
same place, especially il the lightning was
tired.-N. Y. Herald.
BY the use OF the microphone you can hear
the rope walk or the butter hy.-Boston
Globe. Or the gum drop-Free Press. That
may all be true, but II won't help the belle
who never tolled her love.
Father Bjerring, of the Russian Chapel in
New York, blessed another Russian vessel in
Philadelphia yesterday.-N. Y Herald.
Most OF our vessels should be blessed by
somebody They need something.
Brother Talmud was this side the ferry
late lost night agin," said peak nosed New
York spinster one day this week, "and /
haint no doubt bat that he's rakin' together
more malaria for ermonsl"-Chicago Jour
nal.
A prosy, tedious congressman said to Hen
ny Clay: You speak, sir, for the present
generation. but 1 speak for posterity."
"Yes." replied Clay, "and il seems you are
resolved 10 speak until your audience ar
riye."
Just think of the enraged feelings OF q
farmer who finds too late that he had a
squash down in an off corner of the field
-. l.
that took the prize az the fair.-New Haven
Register.
When a rev boy appears at school the
other boys don't say anything TO him at all,
unless II Is TO inquire. Say, you, what's yer
DaDe?' Who's yer daddy?" Where dye
live?' "What reader are yer in?' Is them
yer Sunday clo,hesP'
An exchange gives directions for "a good
way 10 build chimney" but every body
knows that the best way 10 build il is On a
house. A chimney built in the lower part
of the garden, 100 feet from the house, would
prove ridiculous failure.
Banks ought evidently to be located away
from police stations. Putting them right
where police can overlook them-that's the
danger Graphic Perhaps it would be
well TO locate them i'm Massachusetts as they
are not troubling Banks there this year.
The wretch who wrote that lie about a
fquarrel between General Sherman aud bis
wife ought 10 be skun alive.-Graph phic. In
the bright lexicon of the yonth, whom fae
reserves for some other purpose than being
made up into sole leather, there's no such
word as "skun."
A young man who lives in a style of two
thousand a year on an income of five hun
dred. was heard to jingle some silver In his
pocket the other day on the post office steps,
whereupon q friend who knew his status