The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-01-07
CURRENCY.

The pin is mightier than the sward. You
can sit on the sward with impunity.
People who are preparing to swear off had
better begin to write out their afidavits.
Do not despise the opinion of the world;
you might as well say that you care not for
the light of the sun because you can use
candle.
Two daughters of Long Island farmer
ran away because he kept the house too
warm. They ran back home again because
the world was too cold.
Did YOU notice the fact that the tramp who
claims he has a trade but can get no work at
it. i'm the winter is brickmaker and in the
summer is a lumberman or ice sawyer.
Ask the average husband to run down eel
lar for pan of potatoes for breakfast and
his enthusiasm over the growth and pros
perity of America decreases onc-half before
he reaches the middle step.
A bridal couple from Washoe Valley, at
breakfast at Reno, conversed as follows: He
-''Shall skin your pertater, honey" She
-''No, thank you, doary. L have one
already skun."-Denver (Col) News.
Miss Muloch says that bear and forbea
are the two bears of matrimony. Bliffcrs
says she makes a mistake in her addition.
Bear and four bear, he argues, are the five
bears of matrimony, not to speak of little
troubles constantly bruin'.
A Washington belle has just ordered from
Worth pearl-colored satin, brocaded in
shaded wood cOlOrs in combination with pale
wood-colored satin. Her father is probably
snealling up the back streets at home in an
Sl1 ulster.-New York World.
Before they were married he called her
"Pussy." A few months afterward. when
she presented that slovenly appearance too
often seen in young women after they have
done their matrimonial marketing, he seemed
to have reason to address her as "Old Scratch
Cat
A poser-Maud: Mamma. where do peo-
pie 80 to when they die2" Mamma: 'Oh,
you must not ask such questions, dear; you
will understand all about it when you grow
older" Maud latter thinking about it for
some minutes): mamma, do you know all
about it?"
Michigan newspaper says it is permit
ted by etiquette in that State for IA bride to be-
married without gloves, it being supposed to
be typical Of the manner in which she will
handle her husband when she gets better ac-
quainted with him, and proceeds to regulate
her household.
Balbriggan sits down to his dinner, chuck
ling mysteriously. Tell me" says Mrs.
Balbriggan. "Rich thing in our neighbor-
hood, "he says ''there was baby left at
our neighbours house last night" Mrs. Bal
briggan, eagerly, "Yes, and who was the
woman p Brute of husband, innocently,
''Oh, his wife, Short dinner in disguised
silence and no dessert.
Presidents of nearly a dozen prominent
colleges deny the statement made lately by
Il religious newspaper, that our best schools
teach that physical man was evolved from
irrational animals. If, now, they could deny
authoritatively that man himself is generally
an irrational animal, they would afford un-
speakable consolation to politicians and
preachers-New York Herald.
During the past summer young French
man proposed to his wife to take little tour
in Switzerland. What is there in Switzer-
land ?" asked the ingenious fair. What is
there i'm Switzerland echoed the husband.
"Why, there is the most wonderful scenery
in the world-lofty mountain peaks tipped
with rosy snow, verdant wales, sleeping
lakes and ~ "Oh, bother your sleeping
lakes" cries she take me somewhere where
there are shops to buy things at p