The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-03-23

get away from their fair captor, seemed to
be highly pleased, and when let loose
would fiy away a short distance and i'm
mediately return TO the child again. She
took several of them into the house to
show her mother, who, thinking she might
hurt them, put them out OF doors, but no
sooner was the door opened than the birds
flew into the room again, lit upon the
girls head, and began to chirp. The
birds remained about the premises all win
ter flying TO the little girl whenever the
door was opened. The parents of the child
became alarmed, believing that this
strange power was an i'll omen
and that the much-dreaded visitor, Death,
was about to visit their home. But death
did not come, and during the last summer
the child has had many pet birds. The
child handles the birds so gently that a
humming-bird, once in her hand, does not
fail to return. Last winter a bevy of birds
kept her company, and she played with
them for hours at time. Every morning
the birds fly to her window, and leave only
when the sun sinks in the west. The
parents of the little girl are poor. super
shtious people, and have been reticent
about the r..atter until lately fearing that
some great calamity was about to befall
them.
Little Folks Abroad.
A little girl in Sunday-school being asked
why God made the flowers of the field, re-
piled, please, maam, Isuppose for patterns
fer artificial flowers"
Young America i'm Chicago: When a Chi
cago little boy is bad and his mamma orders
him to stand in the corner he edges toward
the door and remarks: Say, ma, is ii q
corner in land or a corner in pork|'
Teacher with reading class: Boy Tread
ing): And she sailed down the river"
Teacher: "Why are ships called 'she% F."
Boy (precociously alive to the responsible
titles of his SEX: Because they need men
to run them"
School teacher giving out the spelling les
son: .sDivorcei Boy-'D i-v-o-r-c-e."
Teacher-"Why, don't you know how to
spell that? What is it? What does it
mean?" BOY know. That's what my
mothers got"
There is great deal OF natural tact IN
children. When little one was asked by
her proud mother to read her last compost
ton to the minister, she began: THE COW is
the most useful animal in the world" and
then, remembering the minister's presence,
added, except religion"
Il know who made YOU" said one six
year-old to another. "Who was it?' The
Lord; He made me, too" us you sorry He
made you?r yes" What makes YOU
sorry?' Just because" "Oh, l know; it's
because He hurt you when He made you
it hurt when He was cutting your MOUTH"
The conversation was not carried any fur
Their.
The other day bright three-year-old boy,
who has "been around some," was taken to
Church to be baptized and christened. Al
though the little fellows parents are Church
people, they mingle much with the world
and are quite regularly at the Theater,
where the little three-year-Old always ac-
companies them. Being taken into Church
there was some delay before the ceremony
was proceeded with, and the unregenerate
youth becoming uneasy, cried out in a
loud, impatient voice, MA, why doesn't the
curtain go up?-Detroit Free Press.
Juvenile Jay Gould: Jimmy Tuffboy is a
modern sort of a youngster. He has formed
Hello Phone Company" in which the
boys on his street are taking stock. Shares
are booming along at five pins premium
preferred stock, seven pins and one needle
with good eye. After he has "Dulled" the
stock awhile longer he intends instituting a
bear movement, to scare the boys into ''un-
loading" after which he will consolidate
with the "Wake Me Up at Five O'clock by
Pulling My Toe With a String" Company
and increase the rates of shoutergrams He
is already looked upon as a monopolist, hav-
ing three sleds and five pair of skates, two
CLUB" three half club" and the crossest
dog in the neighborhood.