The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-06-23
EXPRESSIONS.

Created half to rise, and half TO fall;
Great ord Of all things, yet prey to ALL
Sole Judge of truth, in endless error hurled;
The glory, jest and riddle Of the world
Pope: Essay on Man."
We may live without poetry, music or art;
We may live without conscience. and live without
We may live without friends, we may live without
books;
Owen Meredith: Lucille"
Sigh no more. ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever;
One foot in sea and one shore;
To one thing constant never.
-shaksspear-
When the little prattlng baby is an hunsered.
just AFTER he swskens from his nap.
Why should he look around and call for mamma,
When the little fellow really wants his pap.
-Yawcob Strauss.
Aye, such is mans philosophy,
When woman is untrue;
The loss Of one but teaches him
To make another do--l?l
He may live without bsOks-what is knowledge but
grievingl
He may live without hOpe-what is hope but deceiv-
may live without Iove-whati is passion but pining
But where is the man that can live without diningl
Owen Meredith: Lucille"
/ know he's an old bachelor, horrie grumpy thing
A nasty, spiteful, cross grained, ugly fright
| wish, John, that such callers to your wife you
would not bring;
You know as we'll as 1 do it's not right.
Why do I think him single? whyp oh, John, I'll
have fit
Did you not hear, you stupid, your He called dear
baby ST."
Self-abnegation, that rare virtue that good
men preach and good women practice-Hol-
mes.
never knew man in my life who could
- haar orothorso ,,,fsfor4,,Do ,-arfaot1,-
a Christian.-Pascal.
Some men give according to their means,
and some men give according to their mean
ness-New England proverb.
A New York musical critic is looking for
another situation. He wrote twenty-five lines
about concert and neglected to ring in the
word Technique"
Man is physically as well as metaphysi-
cally a thing of shreds and patches, Dor
rowed unequally from good and bad ances-
tors, and misfit from the start.-R. w.
Emerson.
He was informed that a lady had called to
see him in his absence. "a lady," he unused
aloud, "a lady" Upon an accurate descrip-
ton he suddenly frightened up and added,
"Oh, dot vas no lady; dot vas my vife''-
Chicago Inter.Ocean.
''When girl gets mad and raises from a
fellows knee" says an exchange, "but thinks
better of it and goes back again, that's what
they call relapse" Correct, but when the
head Of the family happens to witness this
'relapse," it is generally followed by 'col-
lapse" AT least that's what we heard say
we don't speak from experience on this sub
ject- Pewee Methodist.
'Where are you going this summer?'
asked Quarterpercent, the broker, of one Of
his customers the other day. "Going?
Well, with Water Power down to 81, Erie
for 80, and the copper mining stocks ten feet
below tide, thought some Of going to the
almshOuse but rather guess shall try the
old style-creditor's meetins-twenty-fiv
cents, with my own notes running twelve,
eighteen and twenty-four months, you
know. Soon as that's settled I'll go to Sar-
atoga-must make something somehow you
know"
Mistress ito new arrival who had been
sent to put letter in the lamp-post box):
"Why Bridget, where have you been all
this timer" Bridget: "Where have 1 been,
ma'am7" Sure, I've been with the letther,
ma,am." Mistress: al know that; but what
kept you so long, and why didn't YOU put
the letter in the box as 1 told your" Bridget
with desperate emphasis): "Why didn't 1
sure enoughi didn't / go to livery wan of
thin, and the doors of thin boxes was all
locked, mann. Pm kilt entirely wild travelin,
round the sthreets all day, so 1 am"