The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-12-18

Kellogg, warming up; "you know well enough
you could do 1t, Clara, If you had ON your
Mignon suit, and nobody was look Ing. "
st. Louis Tmes-Journal.
AN exchange says that ION an average man
eats annually two bushels of wheat If this
figure fiend had told us how many gallons of
rye the average man gets away with, that
would have been more to the pint.--The PEN
ell Point.
WHILE the grown young man of thirteen
summers would scorn the lnsinuation of being
afraid of his daddy, there still fingers in his
heart that flial reverence and affection which
invariably prompts him to swallow a chew of
tobacco before he lets the old man see him spit
1t out.-Glasgow Times.
FIRST class IN arithmetic-How many carats
in yard? How many scruples make one
rood? How many rods make an acher? How
many nails in two feet? How many drachms
make a hogshead? How many grains in one
mill? How many mills make a cent?-and
how many dont?-Utica Observer.
Is lt any wonder man refuses to stay ut
home in the evenings now? Who wants to
get his hands and feet entangled in red and
blue worsted, and to sit down suddenly on q
pair OF slippers or smoking cap? Reform is
what is needed in our homes to-day, and re-
form we must have-New York Express.
WOMAN may revere man IS powers, his intelli-
gence, and mayhap his superiority, but when
he comes TO taking up pan of ashes she COW
ers every inch of floor around the stove with
in radius of 10 feet with bits of old carpeting
and arms herself with a dust-pan and broom
before she lets him begin the job.-Fulton
Times.
THE Albany Evening Journal finds this pla-
carded on the walls of Time: "To whom il
may concern: The undersigned paid that S.
10000 for mackerel to John Bull, not because
he either thinks himself a sardine or a bull
whale; but for the sole and only reason that
those making the award were bull-heads.
"UNCLE SAM"
The English language is wonderful for its
aptness of expression. When a number OF
men and women get together and look at each
other from the sides of a room-that's called a
sociable. When a hungry crowd call upon
poor minister and eat him out OF house and
home-that's called donation party.-Tur-
ners Falls Reporter.
All, no, the small boy, sleeping quietly at
night, little dreams of the toll ana anxiety of
his mother as she ornaments the s idlng down
place of his pants with a nicely dsrned map of
Afghanistan, and silently hopes that her darl-
ing will one day be able to spell two-thirds OF
world.-New Haven Register.
A CORRESPONDENT wants to know chow oys-
tiers are fattened." We never fattened oysters;
but we suppose they are penned up. like tur-
keys, a couple OF weeks before killing and fed
on cornmeal, chopped meat, and mush and
milk. Don't crowd too many in a pen. II the
oysters are for church fair stews, it is not nee
essary to fatten em-New York Herald.
THE careless man marcheth into the house
by the front door, tracketh mud and water on
the hall carpet and receiveth the admonitlons
of a faithful wife; whereas The careful man
sneaketh in the back way and addeth to the
discontinue of the servant girl by splaShing
round in the kitchen with wet boots and a
dripping umbrella-New Haven Register.
ONE of the young girls who is employed in
the harness shop on Asylum street was pre-
vailed upon last week TO stop az a drug store
on the same street and get some twolip salve'
The clerk was little frustrated, but when he
asked her IL she meant it, and on her answer
Ing in the affirmative, stepped up and kissed
her on the mouth, the naughty fellow. The
girls are laughing at her, but she got the salve
just the same.-Hartford Journal.