The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-11-10
EXPRESSIONS.

Tor CONVICTIONS.
A broken engagement is always the pre-
cursor of crisis.
Mean souls, like mean pictures are often
found in good-looking frames.
A great many people make the mistake to
illuminate noses in place of houses.
A pair of squeaking boots entering church
will usually draw more attention than the
most attractive minister.
This is good season of the year to begin
practicing upon the almost "lost art" of
shutting the door after you.
A man who has been successful in putting
up his winters stove, may now safely COM
mence to attend religious meetings again.
A Fall River girl, earning a salary of So a
week, has fallen heiress to $4,000. We
never noticed it before, but she is very pretty.
Too much of the CHI istianity of the pres
ent day is, like pair of boots, polished up
every Sunday morning for church.-Butfalo
Express.
A clergyman asked for a pass on one of
the Illinois roads, the other day, on the plea
that he might convert the conductor of the
train to Christianity.
Time does not stop because q mans watch
runs down. No more does a newspaper be-
cause one man loses his head and orders the
paper discontinued to his address.
When young man returns from a sum-
mer tour without his trunk, you may know
that he has had trouble with some rascally
hotel keepers on the road.-N. o. Picayune
A Galveston school teacher had great
deal of trouble making q boy understand
his lesson. Finally he succeeded and re.
marked, eff it wasn't for me you would be
the biggest donkey on Galveston Island.
Ell understand" said the Galveston Re-
corder, ''that you are confirmed drunksrd."
OATS whar you is too soon, ledge. 1 amt
been confirmed in no church yit, but de blue
light Baptises is gibbin Satan heap OBJ
worry about me-"
"Mother, what is an angel2" Gan angel?
Well. an angel Is being that flies" But,
mother, why does papa always call my gov
erness an angel2" "Well," exclaimed the
mother, after a moments pause, "she's going
to fly immediately"
"My case is just here" said citizen to a
lawyer the other day; "the plaintiff will
swear that hit him. / will swear that
did not. Now, what can you lawyers make
out of that if we go to trial?" ''Five dollars
dpi0So, was tuo phOmps iOpiJ.
The Detroit Free Press man thinks kiss
ing pretty girls must be frowned down.
He'll find that it takes a mighty powerful
frown to stop it, and we doubt if he won't
have to sail in with a club besides, to sue
cessfully interrupt the fun.-Boston Post.
A Memphis man wanted to kill a
mosquito on the back of friends neck. and
without stopping to mention his design, hit
the insect belt, and when his friend got up
and brushed the sand out of his mouth and
eyes, four men had to hold him while the
matter was explained.
The New York Post contains an editorial
on "Party Ethics" We have not had time
to read it, but will say in reply that out here
the whole subject is embraced in getting
your girl an end seat at the supper-table,
and smiling brightly when she calls another
young lady horrid thing.-Chicago Tri-
bune
The peril of employing highly-educated
young men as clerks was again illustrated
recently. A woman stopped at a grocer's
on an uptown avenue and asked: ais them
lettuce freshR" "lou mean that lettuce,
suggested the clerk; ''and it is fresh"
"Then you'd better eat itIr she said, as she
walked on.
A witty w estern editor, suffering from a
depleted purse, copied in his paper an ac-
count of an accident, in which the man res
cued from drowning related that at the
moment of sinking he had most vivid
recollection of every circumstance of his
life, and at the end of the paragraph point
eddy advises his subscribers to battle in deep
water.
Not lonr, aoo o., Tr;sbr,ar aorl;od 20 m
overseer in Tyne ship-yard to be put on a
job. He was informed that his request
could not be complied with; but as Pat con-
tinued to look at an anchor which was lying
in the vicinity the foreman repeated his re-
ply that there was no work for him and ad-
vised him to 60 away. Divil bit will I
stir, sorr, till see the man that's going to
use that pick"
Two friends from the interior put up at
a Galveston Hotel and were given one
room. The man in the next room over
heard the following conversation about day
break next morning: 81 say, Bill. are you
awaken" "I've been wide awake for the last
two hours" "Lend me FIVE dollars" "Pve
dozed off again. 81 knew you were lying
when YOU said YOU were wide awake."-
Galveston News.
II assure you, gentlemen" said the con-
vict upon entering the prison, ''that the
place has sought me, and not the place.
NV own affairs really demanded all my
time and attention, and may truly say
that my selection to fill this position was
an entire surprise. Had l consulted my
own interests, should ..have peremptorily
declined to serve, but as i am in the hands
Of my friends, l see no ether course but to
submit" And he submitted.-Boston
| Transcript
ssDo you see that young lady standing
| there7" asked gentleman of US in the par.
lor of the ::"White." "Well," continued he
sshe is perfect prsudigy. She dawnces
and dawnees, and dawnces, and when she il
not dawncing she is promenawding. Awftel