The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-09-03
CURRENCY.


I doesn't quote no special verse for what has
De sermon win be very short, an dis here am
Dat half, way doins amt no count for dis worr
Dis worT dat we's nbbin' in is like cotton
Where cherry cullud gentleman has got his line
And cherry time lazy niger stops to take his
nap,
De grass keeps on CROWN for to smudder up
ia man eats too much he is dam-fullish.
Bonapartism in France Is threadbare. 1t
has lost its Nap
Love can excuse everything except miss
ing shirt button.
The blind should go to the Holy Land
where even the Dead Sea.
The proverb s'faIr exchange is no rob-
berry," didn't refer to church fairs.-Boston
Post.
Always put your best foot forward"
when q rufian insults you.-Ex-Senator
Sprague.
When Don Cameron read Secretary Sher-
mans speech he exclaimed: "Oh, my
prophetic soul, my wife's uncle!"
Cleveland man who has had several
wives says q bald-headed eagle is one that
has been married.-Gleveland Voice.
1t is strange that it wearies mans legs so
much less to stand in front of a bar than it
does to stand by a ork-bench.-Public
Opinion.
Bob Ingersoll says the black man must go
North where there is fresh air. That is about
what he will have to live on if he comes
Boston Post.
A facetious old lady, describing the ram
bling sermons of her minister, said: eff his
49, Lol he all h,
never catch it"
The Yonkers Gazetts says that intellectual
men are rarely handsome. Now we know
why we are so often mistaken for Ralph
Waldo Emerson.
visit of Ssra Bernhard; she can not be ad-
vertised as great moral show."@Spring
field Republican.
The poet says: 'sHow sweet the music of
the Sabbath belI," and yet there are men
who prefer to listen to it mile or so away
IN the vicinity of berry patch.
The reason there are so few college stu
dents acting as walters at summer resorts
this year is because they have gone as coach
men, being better field to work in.
''What is the name of your cat sir?' in
quired visitor. "His name was William"
said the host, until he had fits, and since
what are you trying to read?" asked
visitor of an old gentleman who was nod
ding over the evening journal. "Oh?' re-
piled his wife, that's his snoozs paper"
An exchange says that Pennsylvania Dutch
girls makes good preserves. But it doesn't
say how much sugar you take to pound of
Dutch girl, nor how long you let 'em boil.
'.Well, Pat, you didn't come to the 2
o'clock train to get me as I told you" 80,
indade did, sor; but got there too late for
thot train, and so 1 waited for the next one"
81 never argy agin success. When see
rattlesnaik's head stickin' out of a hole,
bear off to the left, and say to myself that
hole belongs to that snaik."-Josh Billings.
flames. did you divide your paper of
chocolate with your brother?" Yes, GER
tainly, mamma; ate tie chocolate and gave
him the motto-he is SO fond of reading, you
know"
Diagnsois-Bus driver ito rival conductor
with 1nfiamed visage, in the course of re-
crimination): 81 b'Ieve yer mother must
q nu'ssed yer Tor month upside downl"-
Punch.
When q Chinaman makes love to his girl
he doesn't rave about his heart painting for
her, etc. No-he simply tells her that he
loves her better than he does rats, and she
believes him.
There was very little human nature about
the young English lieutenant who ran away
when the prince imperial was speared. All
the rest of us would have stayed and got
killed.-Boston Post.
Smytekins was out late on a lark with
s'the boys" Next morning when he COM
planned of headache, his wife remarked
that the night tare didn't seem to agree with
him.-Salem Sunbeam.
When the first rays of the rising sun steal
through the latticed window and make q
checker-board of the sleeper's face, the
atrocious fly has no chance but to 'gambol
on the square"
That vas pretty compliment paid by q
member of the Chinese embassy the other
night to young lady. Gazing down at her
really pretty shoes, the Oriental remarked:
81 love your English large feets-"
The three proudest moments of Q mans
when he gets his first pair of red top boots,
when the girls first call HIM Mister" and
when the doctor tells him it's boy.
In San Francisco, where the walking
mania is SO bad, If young man takes his
girl to the opera and it begins to ram just az
it lets out. in order to save hack hire he
offers 70 walk her home. go asy please
for the champion belt and what they can
take at the gate. and she always accepts.
When some years ago al emlpent austria
Ian vas inspecting in that country q Lunatie
Asylum, miserably defective in construction
and appointment, he asked what was the
special feature in the lunacy of q certain
patient. HE thinks he is IN hell, sill" wa
the reply. "If that's all his delusiOn," wae
the rejoinder, 81 think he has . very sub
stantial basis for it-"-Rome Sentinel.
BAsHrULEEss.-Girls, if you want to en-
! courage young men. get an album II the
drst thing bashful young man grabs fol
when he enters strange hose where there
are girls. We have seea them look
through one until they knew svery pic!nrs
- asH<s Gsa pAgs Que ~ Gsnessa Glsas N