The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-10-01

The door few open, and IN trotted Clara
herself, followed by the driver, bearing q
perfect avalanche of packages, boxes and
parcels.
There was something for everybody.
There was black silk dress for the mother,
and crisp $50 bill for the farmer, and sleds
and skates for the boys, and dolls and work
boxes for the girls, and packets of sugar
plums and baskets of apples and oranges.
and picture books, and everything else that
you could think of. And then Clara I'M
folded gaily colored show bill of the Tenn
pest Street theater with picture of little
Miss Cobweb" on it.
"Lookl' said she; 81 am Little Miss Cob
web.' and Mr. Perkins gives me $40 q week,
and have been laying up my money all
these four months to surprise you! And
I've to go back again tomorrow afternoon
for we take in q deal of money holiday
tlmes'
Mercy upon us! how they Rugged and
kissed the child. and how Farmer Triplett
begged her pardon over and over again for
having fancied her cold and selfish, and how
Mrs. Triplett cried tears of joy as she made
haste to fill the little stockings that dangled
on hooks beside the fire place.
So. children, when you go to the Tempest
Street theater, and see little midget Of a
girl on the stage, whom they call Little
Miss Cobweb," you will know that it is Clara
Triplett, doing her best to help support her
family.
Chips for the Children.
A little boy being asked what the .;n;ef
end of man was, replied: "The er.d what's
got the head on"
A I;,tle boy recently said: ''Christians are
peopls who will not be punished for theu
crimes if they go to church"
] Auntie--'sWell, Charley. what have vo.
| been doing to-day in schCol2" Small b. "
| 'Oh, nothing much. Teachers been CAB
| bin"
P. T. Barnum estimates that he s,ld "a.
COO 554 tics cts to bis shows duriJ ~ his A
years of show life. But he can't g.uess HOY
many small boys crept under the canvas.
"Wbat have you been a doin'?" asked
boy of his playmate, whom he saw comm
| out of the house with tesrJ in his eyes
| 1--WE been chasin' birch rod round N
father" was the snarling reply.
80. mamma. there gees the skybuss,
exclaimed bright little girl the other day
as she watched q passi ng hearse that be ade
, a funeral procession. ~'There goes the bI
that takes people to Heaven"
little girl heard some one say ''rempu
{ fugie'f and asked her mother what it mean
She was toh thstit was one way of ssyin
very graveiy, wig, ma, how teInpus do'
6dget."
ssHis view OF it A small boy whose pan
D and jacket-one end Inseparaele-were bu
4, toned uso behind, asked his e1other, certai
l i worthy lady q this city, if God punishe
! everybody that told lie. Certainly L
| does" was the reply. You had better Zoo
out, then, mother, for l haven't had Ii
! piece raspberry pie VOC promised me tw
days ago."
l. A small girl in her first school experience
. said: "MoIher, you told me the other de
y that the ocean wss big. but it says in N
9 reader that two drops make the ocean.
Beth parents protested that there was son
J., mistake, and asked her to consult the my
o terious textbook again. "Well, mother
sx1d she the next day, II was right. Tt
B. reader says drop added to drop makes IL
t. 1 ocean,"
A little fiveyear old daughter of DR.. Plcl
j.. | ems Taylor, of Georgia, was taken down Wi
a spell of intermittent. 1t became necessa
!, ! to administer quinine, which he did. in tt
!. form of small capsules. In order to Undue
i her to take them he told her that they we
. little hum ming-birds' eggs, and were vel
- nice" When the Guinine had taken effec
6 she told her father, with great glee, that Il
!, little birds had Matched and were singing
y her head.