The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-07-07
EXPRESSIONS.


All eyes upon her giancing;
And everybody vowed who saw,
Twas floating more than dancing
The bluest eye, the rOsiest cheek,
lip like morning weather,
When on the flowers and grass you have
q. c. Eastman
A narrow buggy without any top rigging
is little ''sulky;" and little woman with
out any top rigging is a little sulky, too.
1t seems to run in the blood in Louisville
When baby in that city is given pack of
cards to play with the child is dead sure to
go stuffing the pasteboards up its sleeves.
Every time man truly repents," says
Josh Billings, che is born again, but there is
lots ov people who repent every night regu-
lar so to be ready for active Dizziness to-mor
row."
"'Deed, mister" said the old lady after
the bicycle passed her, '.just now 1 seed
wagon wheel running off with man. You
kin believe it or not. / wouldn't if / hadn't
seen it myself"
A young Boston lawyer, who didn't believe
in the immortality of the soul, was induced
on one occasion to mix cider with his whisky,
and he has been member of the church
ever since.-Andrews' Bazaar.
"John can you tell me the difference be-
of cohesion?" ayes, sir; attraction of CRAWL
tation pulls drunken man to the groand.
and the attraction of cohesion prevents his
getting up again"
The latest ''find" at Pompeii is a man
pressing against door, with battered silk
hat on the side of his head. Inside is woe
man grasping broom while the clock points
to three O'clock. The excavators wept when
they unearthed this group.
A Sheffield manufacturer is reported to
have told his wcrkmen to vote Just as they
pleased-"in fact, shant tell you how l am
going to vote" said he. "After it is over
shall have a barrel of beer brought into the
yard Hear, hear" shouted the men.
"But 1 shan't tap it unless Mr. Wortley,
the Tory candidate, gets in"
Young men should never lose presence of
mind in trying situation. When you take
the girl you love to picnic, and you wan
der away together to commune with nature,
and she suddenly exclaims, 'Oh, George,
there's an ant down my backl" don't stand
still with your mouth open; don't faint;
don't go for the girls mother; go for the ant.
A Southern paper quotes a gentleman of
the colored persuasion as saying: "No, par.
son, I'll probly'll never git courage to jine
NC CHuICu- w ueH pour udFkey ; spiritual
visor takes him down in the riber and says,
i capsize the and then ducks him under,
Its time dat darkey looks after himself You
don't play none of dem games on me, old
man."
Burdette has formulated fourteen bur-
lesque rules for ladies travelling alone, some
of which were probably suggested by obser-
vations made during the numerous journeys
occassioned by his lecturing tours. Their
spirit may be inferred from Rule VIII.
which is as follows: 'Put your shawl. strap,
bundle, and two paper parcels in the hat
rack, hang your bird-cage to the corner of
it. so that when it falls off it will drop into
the lap of the old gentleman sitting behind
you; stand your four house-plants on the
window-sill, sit your lunch basket on the seat
beside you, fold your shawls on the top of If,
carry your pocketbook in one hand and hold
your silver mug in the other, put your two
valises under the seat and hold your bandbo1
and the rest of the things in your lap. Then
you will have all your baggage handy and
wont be worried or fustered about it when
you have only twenty-nine seconds in which
to change cars"