The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-02-19

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WITH face plumb mp to the window pane,
Intently watching the falling snow,
THAT turned to slush in the after rain)
Young Tom let this conundrum go:
do you know what that white stuff IL,
mamma,
That's comm down from the sky up there.
Do you give it up? Well guess it are
The dandruff out of the angels hair.-
-Yonkers Gazette.
CINcISNATI is not the Paris of America 1t
is the Ham-burg.-CantonR Repository.
FAITH, gravel trains and hard work will re-
move mountains--New Orleans Plcayune.
THE Mormons are improving. They no longer
dare assassinate Gentle in broad daylight
Detroit Free Press.
THE Atlanta Constitution severely calls Fred.
Grant KERNEL" That's the whole thing in a
nutsheli--Keokuk Constitution.
OLD KING COAL may be a jolly old soul, but
he often fires up and gets red ia the face for all
mis- inerriment-New York News.
DAVID made a "rum" sling when he killed
Golish, and rum sings have continued to Kill
men ever since.-Otfawa Republican.
CONNECTICUT is called the Nutmeg State be-
cause Massachusetts,, which is next docr, is a
CRATER State.-Sr. Louis Times-Journal
MAUD MULLER is supposed to have been very
the "Rake's Progress. "-Stamford Advocate
II is said a shad lives but one year. II is al
most incredible that he can develop such a
wilderness of bones in so brief a time.-Bosten
Transcript.
II reply to "Agriculturist,- we can say we
know of no grade of sand, which is so sweet
as new maple sugar: but most OF them weigh
more.-Syracuse Sunday Times.
OLD-FAsHIoSED skates were turned up at
the toes, but the new pattern, turned up at
the heels, serves the purpose in teaching a
man astronomy.-New York Express.
The men who at this season of the year re-
pine because their ears are SO large, are the
same ones that will be tickled next summer
when they can fan Observation-Disclosures
News.
THE ball season is at hand, and the under
taker gleefully distributes free Invitations, a.
he muses. on the fatality of thin slippers and
evening dresses when brought into contact
with the morning air.-New YorK Court Jour-
nal.
THEY sat close together ON a lounge. He is
diligent reader of dime novels, and she has
read the Hartford papers thoughtfuly for the
past month. He-"May these loving arms of
mine encompass you circumambientlye
she-"Yes.dear If your acoustics are all right
Hartford Journal.
A TRANCE medium reports having had a
vision of the future world. He didn't see any
winged angels, or hear any harps playing but
there were lots of sharp featured young ladies
working out algebraic problems on black
boards, and he concludes that his vision must
have been confined to the Massachusetts, de-
Observation-Disclosures Bazaar.
REV. JOSEPH Cook on a boy who climbs a
tree to steal apples: 1.-The apples are the OBJ
jective natural motive; the boys appetite is
the subjective natural motive: his intention
Is his moral motive IT is hardly necessary
to add that the boot or board the owner of the
orchard applies when he catches him at il is
the boys natural locomotive.-Boston Tran
script.
A YOUNG man came into Danbury from one
of the numerous suburbs to learn cabinet
making. The morning after his arrival he
was sent up to the roof of the building to
shovel off the snow. Fifteen minutes later he
Came shooting into the street from the roof,
carrying the shovel so carelessly as to knock a
farmer out of a Sleigh Long ere the sun sank
in the West ne had gone back to The old farm.
-Danbury News.
TEACHER twho Is trying to explain the mean
ing of repentsncel: Suppose bad boy Were
to steal an orange and his good mother should
catch him with it, and take him by the hand
gently, and tell him how wicked II is, and
how very. very grieved she was, don't you
think, now, that the little boy ought to feel
sorry?" Chronic Sunday-schooi Scholar:
''Yessum." t.: "And why. Marmadukee" c.
s. s.: !" Cause" T.: because what, Nanny
c. 8. s.: "Humph, cause why, he hadn't ct
the or'nge befo' his ma cotch him and tuck il
away fun him."-Louisville Courier-Journal.