The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-02-19
Uhe 5entiuel.
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 10.
CLIPPING S.

His congregation go to sleep,
Or-which was worse-elsewhere.
He pondered long and deeply,
This wise and pious man,
And at last hit on a simple
And most effectual plan.
Next sunday, of his sermon
The text when he had said,
He slipped down the pulpit stairs
And stood upon his head.
BY thousands fiocked the people
That preacher great to hear,
And the trustees raised his salary
To nifty thousand year.
Unknown Exchange.
IN the MIDST of life we are in debt.-Court
journal.
OF no consequence In society-dumb bellies.
Boston Post.
sMAY MYRTLE:'' No: base ball is not
a woman's sphere.-Utica Observer
THE Mormon que stion-How many wives
can afford to starve to deatha-Buffalo Ex-
press.
PUT boy in cast-iron boots aud he'd get
his feet wet just the same.-Detroit Free
Press.
SEED anything of the chap who prof'sied
ad eped = kerchew = widtere = Catskill Re-
order.
y
when il reclines in his girls lap.-New York
Express.
RUTH was good girl, and she had as fine
Boaz could be found IN those days.-Meriden
Recorder
LADY, l.YFros has presented the viceroy
with son. They have not yet Lytton name
for him.-Boston Post.
WHEN the old folks try to sit out a young
fellow and his giil, they get discounted every
INTERCHANGEABLE Sentinel.
IN the alphabet, as not unfrequently in life
the y'sare far down in the list; but you win
always find them in goodly society.-Boston
Transcripts.
CoRkoNiAN to Grant: "If yere mad about
your reception in Cork, shure ye're going now
where ye kin Asia mind about it.H-Cincin-
natl Saturday Night.
THE reason young man parts his hair in
the middle is through fear that the weight of
any more than half of ii on one side will crush
in his skun.-Syracuse Times.
NOBODY seems to know what becomes of the
humble pees in winter, but they are on deck
and ready to be sat down on as soon as the
first barefooled boy appears.-Detroit Free
Press.
PUCK wants to know If Queen Victoria was
ever paragrapher. Why, of course she was
Her first issue was royal joke. You must re-
member seeing it in the prince.-Philadelphi
Kronikle- Herald.
ELI PERKINS says he often runs over to
Brooklyn and talks an hour or two to Rev. Mr..
Beecher. No wonder Mr.. Beecher once feel
ingly remarked, 81 even wish that l were
dead."-Norristown Herald.
Now THAT a bill restricting the immigration
of Chinese has passed the House, the woman
who supports her husband by taking in wash
ing afford to have twins occasionally
Philadelphia Kronikle-H Herald.
WE believe it the duty of this journal to en-
courage Philadelphia enterprise. Why in the
thunder don't some of our furniture manufac-
turers nd the Princess Louise price list of
oradIes?-Fhils. Kron ikle Herald.
IN this country a boy has too much to fight
against. First, it is his mothers slipper; next,
Fourth of July; then green apples; and, final
", Santa Claus, rickety pair of skates and
an aiI-hole in the ice.-N. Y. Express.
IT is exceedingly gratifying to know that
there is s22l eco COO worth of coin in the treas
nry. II encourages us, you know, and gives
rs the heart to staye off the milkman and the
grocer for another week-Bridgeport stan
dard.
fsYou fiatter me-, as the o.ange said to Judge
David Davis. when he sat down upon it,
Hawkeye. "You injuice me to rise respond
ed the Judge, as the oranges life blood pene-
trated the dome of his pantaloons.-Rockland
Courier.
SPEAK gently, speak gently: no matter how
much bigger and how much broader across
the shoulders than yourself the other man is,
nor how cross he looks, speak gently. The
bigger and broader and erosser-the gentler.-
Hawkeye.
ONE of the brightest little residing on
James street Il ill yesterday his father fix
ing the billiard table with a spirit level. After
the old man had finished the job, he remark
ed, NOW, pa, see if my heads level. a-Syra.
cuse Standard.
MRS, WALTON having patented a plan for
stopping the racket of the New York Elevated
railroad, an Eastern paper drops the sly re-
mark that 'it is little singular that it should
be left to woman to manufacture silence.
Chicago Evening Journal.
THE day approaches on which the freckled
boy will send to the cross-eyed girl over the
way picture of fiat heart stuck through the
middle with baIbed stick. He VIII call it a
valentine, and the stick shows how he is stuck
on the gal-New Orleans Picayune.
A NEW YORK editor, under the head Of
what we drink enumerates blue clay, beans
and chicory made to initiate coffee bean. His
subscribers wonder why he didn't also include
beer and whisky. The blue clay. beans and
chicory beverage is enough to kill him.-Nor
ristown Herald.
THE natural selfshness of mankind is never
more strikir ely set forth than in the supreme
pleasure with which the comfortably-hou
railway passengers enjoy seeing the train make
a farmers team run away and scrape thu
troubled agricu;turist up against barbed-wir,
fence.-Hawkeye.
The hesitat1ng choice and the tell-tale blush
of the fair maiden as she selects the dainties
valentine in the stock, shows that she, a
least, means business; while the two-cent ar
rangement that he has just mailed to her viii
open her eyes to the fact that he dont.-Nev
Haven Register.
GUKRENr TOPICS.
In FLORIDA corn is a foot high.
Cow pleuro-pneumonia has invaded Brook