The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-07-16
CLIPPINGS.
A dead.shot-A spent bali.

A dead shot-A spent ball.
For rest, go to the forest-Boston Post.
FThere is no stone in Ireland. 1t is all
Shamrock.
Mosquitoes are always puncture-ally on
hand.-Oil City Derrick.
Must lawyer necessarily have attorney
Philadelphia Sunday Item.
The long tramp of the pilgrim in the Pill
grim's Progress, brought him bunyan.
The Paterson Press thinks that Charley
Ross must be old enough to find himself.
A druggist advertises cred lavender"
This must be the red cent? we hear quoted
sometimes.
A patriotic citizen of the Second ward
calls his frisky dog A-merry -cur.-Y onkers
Statesman.
A grocer adyert1ses in the following terse
manner: "Hams and cigars-smoked and
unsmoked."
Borie insists that ne will go on the Grant
boom. He will go as a Borie guard.-New
York Herald.
: ga fellow-feeling makes us wondrous
kind" But fellow feeling for our pocket
book makes Us wondrous mad.
A sign not 100 miles away reads:
"Coughins for sale here" That's like con-
sumption, it's bad coffin spell.
And now the weeds and the bugs look up
to the diligent agriculturist and cry: Give
US no more of this hoe cuss-poke-us bust
ness
A Pennsylvania man has invented a three
barrelled shotgun. He ought to go gun
ming for presidential candidates. This is the
season.
Simply because Charles Foster, Republican
lota for IF 20 at ho
head of spoke factory he is lightly thought
of as good felloe.
A Boston child remarked, after gazing
earnestly at a man who was bald but had
heavy whiskers, His head was put on up
side down, wasn't it?'
The man that got drunk in the marble
yard explained to the judge before whom
he was taken that he had been on a monu-
mental bust.-Aibany Evening Journal.
In Connecticut, when you wish that a
druggist should put something just wee
} bit strong into your soda water, you mildly
suggest that you will take little annex
syrup.
The Boston Herald believes that when
Zach Chandler goes down into Maine to
twist the tail of the Greenback lion all the
circuses booked for that State will canoe |
their engagements. F7e HFTa~
The story is told of an Iowa man that he
has been married four times, and has all four
of his mothers-in-law living with him in one
house. The story is Incredible So brave a
man as it implies never lived.-Home Jour
nal.
Says the New York Commercial Adver-
tiser: Several papers have been making
fun of tine duke OF Argyll's red hair, but he
can't help it. gentlemen; he was born so. y
Sort of redheaditary, eh?-Boston Tran
script.
Down in the Indiana swamp districts
when they read that the duty has been
removed from quinine they gaze smilingly
into each others eyes through tears of glad
ness, cordially extend their trembling digits
and exclaim ''shakei"
The editor OF the Louisville Courier-J Jour
nal writes such red hot editorials that the
reader is forced to the conclusion that the
only water with which he is acquainted is tC
be found In his name-and that has toe
much "t'' IN it for water.-Norristown Her
aid.
A five-year-old optimist and philosopher
was overheard telling her companion
while playing in the dining room, that sh
\ had heard that ito sit on the table is a slgl
that you want to get married. and, in al
- impressive undertone added, land I know
4 it's true sign for I've tried itl''