The Indiana State sentinel., 1879-09-03
SCRAPS.


How mad it is to hope for contentment to
our infinite soul, from the gifts of this finite
world.
To attain long life: Love nothing too vio-
lently; hate nothing too passionately; fear
nothing too strongly.
He who would amass virtues, leaving out
the guardian virtue humility, is like a man
who leaves a precious dust exposed to the
wind.
Miss Lillian Edgarton, handsome Ameri-
can lady, who has made great hit in Lon
don as q lecturer, is soon to come home. She
has three or four new orations.
When the prodigal son returned home and
the fatted calf was killed and placed before
him on the table, he turned up his nose at it
and said: 'Great goodnessl haven't you got
no other kind of meat but that? l allus did
hate veal"
A lady contributor to a newspaper writes
that it is all very pretty to say, "Home is not
home without baby" but that when one has
ga perpetual baby for 20 or 80 years of ones
life," the blessing is in danger of losing some
of its delights.
The New York Graphic says the moral of
"Marry Rich After this moral is carried
out, in many cases, there is not enough to the
moral part adhering to such marriages to
commend them.
Miss Smiley, the Quaker preacher, lives,
during the summer, alone with her servants,
in pretty cottage at Saratoga. People in
sist upon seeing her, and, in self-defence, she
has had to appoint regular reception day,
i,,St oc If cha waS fashions hlp ladv
'Does the court understand you to say,
Mr.. Jones, that you saw the editor of the
Auger of Freedom intoxicated?" "Not at
all sir; I merely said that had seen him
frequently so furried in his mind that he
would undertake to cut out copy with the
snuffers-that's all"
When you see lady throw her right hand
around behind her back like a base 5all
pitcher. and twist her body like a circus con-
tortionist, or gentleman rushing down the
street of a hot afternoon with flying coat tails,
hat on the back of his head and looking at
his watch every two seconds. you may know
that they are both trying to catch a train
Boston Commercial Bulletin.
Society may aid in making the laborers
virtuous and happy, by bringing children up
to labor with steadiness, with care, and with
things as possible: to do them all in the best
manner; to set them an example in industry,
sobriety cleanliness and neatness; to make
all these habitual to them, so that they shall
never be liable to fall into the contrary; and
to let them always see good living proceed
ing from labor.
Mary O'Keefe, of Brooklyn, is not a good
daughi er. She had her mother arrested for
stealing clothing and jewelry from her, and,
as the old lady wore the stolen dress into
court, she compelled her to take it off in a
private room, and then make the best of her
way home, covered by an old wrapper, which
also belonged to her child, and which the
old lady was carrying in bundle. This
wrapper the daughter allowed the mother to
have, because she "did not want it, herself
Strange world, thisl
Paris costume: A pink lawn tunic over a
petticoat of white silk; the lawn embroidered
in Pompadour flowers, the edge of the tunic
shown up by white plisse; an abbess train
in pink lawn and white silk mixed, the lawn
plisses alternating with the white ones the
whole length of the train. A high pink lawn
bodice all embroidered; white silk sleeves
all the way down the tunic embroidered in
bands; white silk bows of ribbon; silk stock
ings, striped pink and white; pink kid Ishoes
with small straps fastened by Rhine stones
"A tragic love story is heard from Austria
A sub-lieutenant of the army, NJ. de Horn
son of nobleman of that name, and higf
official in the post-ofice at Bamberg, wished
to marry Mile. Hammerbacher. His father
would not consent, and enforced his refusa
by certain statements against the character
of the young lady, that cost him four month.
in prison for defamation; and the two lover.
are in their graves. The lady was so troubled
by the SANDER that she committed suicide by
shooting herself through the heart, and thu
young man, crazed by grief, took the sam,
pistol and blew out his brains.