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


Old maids are politely styled belated sis
tiers.
A fixed fact-One that gets ina woman s
head.
A female elephant is known by the size of
her trunk.
A brute of man says you can tell
woman suffragist by the size of her foot.
Chicago girls wear ulsters on their ears to
keep them from freezing.-Aibany Argus.
A young lady wants to know why tight
laclng is injurious. Be corset stays the cir
cuiation.
sentimental German gave his sweet
heart flower, which he called Don't you
forget it"
A young lady in Utica is so refined that
she invariably alludes to the SpItz as the
''cuspidor dog"
professor at Vassar, who has a class of
brilliant feminines, says 1T takes hero to
face she row."
Can any mortal man tell why woman
will cross one sloppy crossing on her toes
and the next one on her heels?
Swapping diphtheria' is what they call it
now when spooney lovers hang over the
front gate on moonlight nights.
A Cleveland woman has corns on her left
ear. She is probably given to walking off
on that member.-Philadelphi Journal.
A number of girls in Birmingham have
been made Ill by motto lozenges. The an
swers disagreed with them, perhaps. Dan
bury News.
Where will you put me when I come to
see you at your castle in the air?' asked a
gentleman of witty girl. SIN a brown
study" she replied.
The Empress Eugene is said to be cold
and silent. Let's take up subscription and
buy her a coal stove and hire some one to
talk to her.-Free Press.
There are two periods in woman's life
when she does not like to talk. When one
is we never knew, and the other we have for.
gotten.-RocklandC Courier.
We hear of young lady SC pizen nice that
she never alludes to that humble utensil by
any less refined title than ''boot John" She
would die before she would say Jack"
A soft couple may resemble two rock ma
doesn't always follow that where there il
the most sap there is the most sugar"
What the country needs now, among wo
ravishing strains from grand piano, as one
that can spank a baby CON expressione.-New
| York Sun.
1t is related of widow Mary Holbrook, who
died recently in Brockton, Mass, at the age
of SO years, that she made $4,000 after she
was IS years old, by the sale of tides il
Boston.
s.Fiel Mollie,' ouoth Reuben to Mary
'''tis pity we two can't agree" ''Fie
Mollie is good, SIR" she answered; ''bu
/ you'll find you can't Mollie-ie me."-Chi
cago Tribune.
1.-TWO mouths with but single stew, two
spoons that dip as one" as the young mar
remarked to his dearly beloved after giving
his economical order of lone stew, two
spoons. "-Albany Argus.
Miss Crabbaule: Well, we've made some
thing out of our parties, anyway. They lef
five fans, and Alice Roseleaf ropped thi
lovely curl-just my shade. 81. won't asl
for it. so I mean to keep it.
Tt is easier for a camel to pass through tn,
eye of a needle than it Is for young woman
in a fur-lined silk cloak to walk along with
out letting it flap open just little, to show
that the fur is more than mere border.
Adolphus: angelina. why it'll man cut
ting wood like melting thuowg' Angelina
II can't tell, Dolly. Tell me, DEAR" Adolf
plus: .Becauth beth thawlng." This ter
rible strain on Adolphus' brain receives it
fitting recompense. Thugary tweetneth
Boston Transcript.