The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-12-04

Brain work-Club fights.
A good composer-soothing syrup.-Yox
Humane.
Soldiers are paid in fight money.-New
Orleans Times.
Hung by the neck until wed. That's what
Benedict did before he married.
Patience" may 'be on a monument" but
patients are generally under it.
North Pole Bennett should fit out an ex-
petition to discover A. T. Stewart.
When halter fits cap to your Uranium
he cap sizes your head, doesn't he?
That was fine meta Yorick display when
Hamlet discovered the skull of the dead
jester.
Straddling blind-this phrase probably
refers to equestrian exercise on a sightless
horse.
The Utica Republican gives dispatch from
the queen to the ameer-"Loye me, or FL
lick you"
Consistency, thou art jewell" as the of
flee boy said when he got the paste the right
thickness.
baby crying look out for danger-for there's
a rock ahead.
Where ignorance is bliss, we have yet to
see the man who will acknowledge that
he is blissful.
Jones says he hasn't got a mother-in.law,
but be has father-in.jail, and it amounts TO
the same thing.
In Pittsburg base ball club is called THE
Pancakes" The pitcher of batter is always
ready.-GraphIc.
There ought TO be alightniDg rod invented
that would ward off a donation party-Mil-
waukee Sentinel.
The divorced wife of Boston bowling sd
loon keeper is suing TO get some alley-money
from her former husband.
Flies must have good eyesight or they
wouldn't be leaving their specs wherever
they go.-Whitehall Times.
The tramp has become a permanent nui-
sance in Ohio-Cincinnati Breakfast Table.
All he wants is to be 'bated.
There are two comforts in owning a saw
horse You can either borrow your neigh
boris saw or loan him the horse.
The times are harder than we thought. 1t
is rumored that Sergeant Bates has been
compelled to go to work.-Burdette.
Hurry up that electric light The man
who drops a penny in a street car wants
to buy fourteen yards of it.-Detroit Free
Press.
If you want to hold the reins don't marry
that woman who can thread needle while
there is horrid bug circulating within 10
feet of her.
'Er royal ighness an er usband have ar.
rived safe and sound. Canada is all for
Lorne, and will give him and the princess
grand welcome.
Mr.. Edgerton boldly proclaims that the
average legislator is above the average citizen
In intelligence and honesty. That's rough.
Hit hun, somebody.
The new grammars will contain this:
Ques.-How many gsnders are there? Ans.
-Three-the masculine, the feminine, and
the womans-righter.
The politest man OF the time lives in New
Orleans. He went into a tobacconlst's store
bought two cigars, and said courteously to
the proprietor, If you do not object to the
smell OF tobacco, will smoke one of these
cigars here"
I'D offer thee this sand of mine," is what
the grocer sang to the customer who wanted
sugar He was advised 10 keep his sand in
his crop, but not to deal it out.
Sheridan always was good at a charge. but
Schurz seems to show that he was a great
many miles away from the actual facts In his
charge against the interior department.
Mr.. Rocket and Miss Crib recently mar
ried in Alabama. A cromo will be given to
every newspaper which refrains, for sixty
days, from publishing apun on their names.
A sharp young fellow sold forty-eieht
Bibles In Chicago by having printed on the
covers: zone thousand recipes for making