The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-02-23
TABLE GOSSIP.

If We could only tax the follies of the
world the payment of National debts would
be mere bagatelle.
The man who easily and quickly forgets
good turn is just the man to avoid doing
one If he possibly can.
Whenever you find poor man who is
truly grateful for the pittance you give him,
you may be sure that he would himself be
generous if he had money TO give.
A bowler in a Cleveland alley had a ball
poised TO roll, when a bystander made an
insulting remark, and he threw il violently
at the offender, killing him by fracturing his
skull.
Some people have a genius for doing eve
rything wrong They are like the Irish
mans frog, who always stood up when he
sat down, and always sat down when he
stood up.
Vulgarity in high life is all the more con-
spicuous because OF its elevation. The vul-
gar rich man ought to be taken out of the
dress circle, where accident has placed him,
and put into the pit, for which nature fitted
him.
Gossip is the popularity of a small mind.
Some people don't know enough 10 talk
about the greatness of things, and so they
talk about the littleness of things. The ex-
| prsssion of their own shallowness is what
We call gossip.
While Charles Miller was eating break
| fast, in Detroit, his wife embraced him af-
fecuOnately and cut his throat. She ex.
planned that she was the Queen of England,
that he was the Emperor of Germany, and
that the cause of peace demanded his death.
There are two Bishops staying at Cannes.
the Bishop of Gibraltar and the Bishop of
Jamaica. They are known there, saws the
! London World. by the abbreviated names of
/ Tar Al,
popular, and are both in great request at 5
o'clock tea parties. By the way, that mild
but fashionable form of entertainment is
always spoken OF by one of the fairest of the
fair visitors (hailing from the other side of
the Atlanticl as cream spree"
Several habitual players against Louis
vile faro bank found out that the dealing
was tricky, and resolved to get their money
back. Just as the cards had been placed in
the box, player handed in $50 bill for
| chips. A second player stepped to the deal
er's side and said: THAT looks like a
counterfeit" While the note was being
critically examined, a third player changed
the pack of cards for one that had been
stocked" Then play was resumed. The
conspirators, knowing beforehand how the
cards would run, quickly won more than
they had lost, and might have broken the
bank, if their manifest eagerness had not
aroused the dealers suspicion. He ex-
amined the pack, and denounced the fraud,
but paid the losses.
The father of Charlie Ross, writing to the
latest discoveries of the lost boy in Canada
says that the last spark of hope has gone
out, and he mourns the lost one as dead.
After giving reasons why the Canada boy
can not be Charlie, he adds: 81 have al
ways believed that my Charlie, although
only four years and two months old at the
h. al Il
brother Walter, who was taken away with
him. and had also thought that he would
even have distinct recollection of the feel.
ing OF lonelipess that he must have expert
enced when he found he was in the hands OF
strangers and separated from his parents u
On another recent occasion Mr.. Ross said
The only tidings have ever received oil
Charlie since he was stolen was the demand
for ransom of so 600. If | had paid that
| would have had had him long before this
As it is, | have spent SCI. 900, and have not
got him.
The Appellate Court in Paris the otherday
quashed a 81 tence of three months i'm
prisonment Tor indecency passed on a man
named Older, it being proved that the de.
fendant was somnambulist, and irrespon-
sible in that state for his acts doctor
sent him to sleep in an ante-chamber of the
Court by simply looking fiXedly at him. and
then retiring to distance, pronounced his
name. whereupon Didier rushed toward
him, despite the efforts of the turkeys to
prevent him. In the presence of the Judges,
moreover he wrote letter with his eyes
shut, from dictation, and large needle was
stuck into his neck without his betraying
any sign of sensibility. A fit of somnam-
bulism, it was stated, sometimes comes on
him while walking out of doors, and when
he was in a hospital he was observed copy
ing music, having no recollection of it on
awaking. The doctors there also noticed
his automatic submission. The Court ac-
cordingly ruled that he was not morally or
legally responsible for his actions