The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-12-11
WIT AND HUMOR.


tain.
The close of the day is too light a gar
ment
The sky, unlike man, is most cheerful
when the bluest.
All, yes Edison's light to the eyes is the
light Of future daze.
A cold in the head is generally obtained by
the contract system.
To remove pant from door posts-Back up
against 1t when it is fresh.
The business of rag-gathering is picking
up.-New Orleans Picayune.
&, The canvass made by politician may be
for sale.-New Orleans Picayune.
Whisky is about the only enemy man has
succeeded in loving.-Danbury News.
The nearest some men ever come to a
buck-saw is when their teeth are on edge.
If anybody would only detect something
for the detectiyes.-New York Herald.
The holiday season approaches, when a
young man must show his gift enterprise.
1t is quite appropriate that new books on
Pottery should be illustrated with plates.
A bouquet is good center piece for the
dinner table.-Boston Commercial Bulletin.
The fat man who wants to become anti
fat should study the architecture of lean
to.
Layman-A man who halts between two
opinions Is lame on both sides of the ques-
ton.
With many of our contemporaries, last
years jokes are this shears jokes.-New York
News.
The fellow who got intoxicated with de-
light has been turned out of the temperance
society.
Those cordial Michigan lumber men are
again sapping buzz saws on the back.-New
York Graphic. -H
Economy is wealth. Even the stove pipe
is coming out with last winters soot-Bos-
ton Transcript.
The man who pays in advance cannot be
trusted. Let this be warning.-New Or
leans Picayune.
Here lies'-any graveyard will furnish
you abundant opportunities to see how the
tombstones do it.
The only finished thing in connection with
the Washington monuments the fund.-
Chicago Journal.
A Western paper explains. 1t didn't
mean to say that Mayor Shocks was tight"
bat that he was right.
There wouldn't have been any milk in the
cocoanut il some of our darymen had had
the construction of it.
The title of "a. B." is very cheap IN De-
troit. 1t has a practical significance there,
meaning "a hummer"
Resurrection dag will have to take back
seat unless this body-snatching business is
stopped.-New York Star.
Toying big dinner. 1t was stuffed club
when the repast was over.
A writer may draw on his Imagination for
gooo story, but the draft is not always hon.
orad.-New Orleans Picayune.
Which is oldest the man who asks cues
ton or the man who answers? The man
who asks, because he is the querist.
The New York burglars and grave-robbers
only need a newspaper organ to secure them
firm footing and fair share of business.
What is the difference between a certain
Roman emperor and drunken man? Ones
Titus an emperor, the other tight as brick.
what do you want to shoot quail on the
ground forY' bowls sporting journal. On
the ground that we can't hit 'em anywhere
else.
Gentlemen, there's no use taking" re
and then he talked away for half an hour
without pause.
Some little time ago Sunset Cox told the
world Why we Laugh" 1t is now time
for him to finish his job and inform the pub
lie why we weep.
The upstart that rose to point of order
after sitting down upon the aggressive end
of a pin was assured by the chair that the
point wss well taken.
The following classical poser is submitted
for college boating clubs: Did Leander
swim the Hellespont, or did Hero2-New
York Commercial Advertiser.
A thief who fell into fit of abstraction
and got lost in thought, after wandering
awhile in his own mind. found himself al
last in the arms OF policeman.
A hard money enthusiast says he never
met woman in his life that seemed tc
know anything about coins. He never
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Gazette.
A grave rebuke-Individual fresh from hi,
club: my good sir (hic) can you tell me
where this W (hic) way leads top Sedate
party: ITO the churchyard."-Fun.
The very last curiosity spoken of in The
papers is a wheel that came off dogs tai
when IL was a Vaughn. The man WHO dis
covered Ii has retired from public life.
When young man comes to believe tina
glass of liquor is a daily necessity he mus
soon quit drinking and attend to business
or quit business and attend TO drinking.
If there was anything practical in spiritu
alism Stewart could give the policemen
rap ana some information concerning tn
disposition of his bones.-New Orleans Pic
ayune.
II will and bequeath," said Pat, "to m,
beloved wife Bridget, all my property with
out reserve; 10 my oldest son Patrick one
half of the remainder, and TO Dennis. m,
younger son, the rest IL anything 10 left, |
may go TO Terence 0Carty in sweet Ire
land"
An Irishman found a government blsnke
recently, and rolling Il no under his arm
fer Patrick and 8 for Mccarthy. Be M