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

" Adam were alive he would be !, ST years Old
NEW YORK CITY sends forth annually AZ. 600
drummer.
BEEcHER says that the imaginary is better than
the reality. People will do well to imagine that
they belong to Plymouth Church.
THE prettiest and highest of handkerchiefs are
brought from Fayal. They are woven from the
aloe, century plant, as il is often called, and
are not like silk. cotton or wooden.
THE fashionable spring bonnet of 1881 is to be
profusaly decorated with flowers, and provided in
the rear with a fire escape. SO that the wearer's
friends can climb TO the top and see the trim
mings.
CHICAGO does not hesitate to arrest a woman
found smoking on the streets, but a man can be
drunk and smoke too and he is all right Why
does any woman remain I'm Chicago and submit to
this order of things?
A DEBATING Society has tackled the question :
us it worse to think you've reached the tor,
when there Is one stair more than 10 think there
is one STAIR more, when you've reached the top,
and bring your foot down 30 hard that it jingles
for four hours?"-Boston Post.
when little Indian is born the medicine man
or one of the family looks out of the door and
casts his eye on some object. The name that comes
from thoroughly picturesque description of the
object first seen is the name of the Indian. Hence
Sitting Bull, Red Cloud and so on.
THERE'S an Inauguration down T. our house, "
said young smallboy to his sisters beau. "Can /
come? What's 1t going to be?'' mo, you CAM
come. Dads going to Marguerite a reform. No
| feiler is comm TO Jenny unless they gets q
permit" Jennys beau reflects and concludes he
won't apply.
A GALVESTON man went to a Doctor and told
him: Doctor, there is something the matter
with my brain. After many severe mental exer
tons have headache What Is the remedy fol
it?" 1.-THE best remedy is to get yourself elected
to the Legislature, where you viii have no occa
sion to think."
do you really believe that ever spoke
to Balaam?" queried a man who prided himself
on his intellect Coleridge to whom the ques-
ton was put. reflected: MY friend, have no
doubt that the story is true. have been spoken
to in the same way myself" The man of inquir-
ing mind retired for meditation.
THE Massachusetts, Supreme Court holds that a
country Doctor needn't know as much as a city
physician. We suppose therefore. that in Mas
sachusetts there is wide distinction between
human constitutions and diseases m the country
and in the city: otherwise health is not valu-
able or necessary in the country as the city
I'Pittsburg Telegraph.
HAPPINESS by the pound: Two neighbOrs meet
and exchange congratulations upon the fact that
both have recently become fathers. lin the
happiest man in the world exclaimed Jones;
I'm the father of baby weighing twelve
pounds" at can't be that you are the hsppiest
man. said his friend, 'for mine weighs four
teen."-Brooklyn Eagle.
ONE of the principal causes of disease Is found
in the fact that Nature is unable 70. master the
outlandish names that science has given to the
different parts of the body. When she was told
that there was something wrong in the throat, she
knew where to go to work with her healing hand
So too, with the shoulder blade, the collar bone,
and the shin. But what does Dame Nature know
of the pharnyx, the omoplate, the claviele or the
tbia? Nothing, absolutely nothing. Boston Tran
script.
A TEsTANESTARY Disposition.-Pater-''No w.
my boy, I've been making my will, and Eve left
very large property in trust for you. lmerely
wish to ask you If you've any suggestion to Of
fer" son-'Well. don't know that have, sir
-unless-hum" - (pondersl = "Quesh'n is-as
things go nowadays, wouldn't it be better to
leave the property to the other fllau, and-ah-
| point me the trustee?'