The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-10-22

Arkansas Traveller.
Confidence game-Decoy ducks.
The soft shell crab considers his case
hard one.-Public Opinion.
Women are archers by nature. The bent
of their inclination is to bend beaus.
Arumor comes from Paris that bonnets
are to be worn on the head hereafter.
Hush! A new wrinkle is to have fine lace
insertion up the front of the feminine stock
ing.
A precoclous youth says that school teach
ers are like dogs, because they lick your
hand
There is great waste of material in the
present fashion of ladies' belts, but they hide
q good deal of the waist.
1t rains alike on the just and the unjust
on the just mainly because the unjust have
borrowed their umbrellas.
A recent obituary notice says "Mr. Smith
was an estimable citizen. He died with
perfect resignation. He had recently been
married.
A young lady's hat blew off and was run
over by a broad wheel cart The ribbon was
somewhat soiled, but the hat is now the
very latest fall shape.
81 think it's time to be going" said young
Skinner, after boring his betrothed till a
late hour one night. Yes said she, '{I,is
is a go as-you-please match"
A recent picnic was turned into a hollow
mockery by every fellow remembering to
bring a corkscrew and depending on some
body else to furnish the bottle.
They were out sailing on the Atlantic City
Inlet. The captain, as he spied the buoy,
cried Hard a-lee!" and one o. the party,
by force of hablt-it was not intention
murmured, 'ever." There was a splash
one
There is a man in Southern Indiana 90
years old who on the authority of the Cin-
cinnati Commercial, doesn't use glasses.
The fact induces the Boston Post to conclude
that the old gentlemen takes his in a tin
dipper.
Says one OF the Republican organs: 1--WE
do not know whether Mr.. Hayes finds re-
forming the civil service hard work or not. y
Hard? No. It's as easy as rolling off a log
He signs an order, shuts his eyes, and the
reform is complete.
At party at Saratogl the other day, the
conversation appeared to be dying out when
a bilious man observed to young ledy on
his right: Il don't think they make pills
as large as they used to-" After that the
conversation went out again.
great many of cur modern young ladies
resemble the lilIes:of the field-thye toll not
neither do they spin. But they spend 6
pile of money, and lay around the house
and let their mothers do the work. That's
the kind of hollyhocks they are,
"Oh, yes, I'm mad-just as mad as cal
be-" exclaimed a fashionable lady, TOSSING
her head to give emphasis to her words. "T'
think that those horrld reporters shoult
have had the impudence to lug me into thei
description of the Fitzgerald wedding. Ugh
the horrid things-and they didn't ever
mention the lace on my dress"
For the 10000, O00th time the original re
mark has been made that the initials @
General Grants name seem to be prophetic
when we consider that they stand for Unite
States General. Nobody seems to see the
they stand for other things as we'll: for U 4
doubted Silk Goods, Unequaled Swee
Ginger Utah's Serious Gentle, Useful Silve
Gong, and Unhappy Supervisors Cable
There is a good deal of prophecy in these.
sAre you ready for trial, Mrs. Furgeson?
mot yet yer honor" "And why no
pray?'' ..Shure, I'm maxim new polly
maize to appear in on the witness sthant
an it's not quite ready, may it place II
koort" when will the gown be finished
'Tve got it all done but the thrimmin', al
Pill have that on By Chewsday, yer honor
"Oyez, oyezl all witnesses in the case of Il
State of Ohio VS.. Mrs Furgeson will appe
next Tuesday, without further notice."
Cincinnati Enquirer.