The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-03-02

To every passerby
| The old trite saying proven i,
| "TrueloYe can never dye"
California sent To the Eastern States 81
600. 600 worth of fruit last year.
John, what IL that scar on your chin?"
THAT scar? Oh, that's q relic of bar
barism."
| The man who unearthed a mummy
boosted that he had got dead sure thing
on the show business.
They tell US matches are made in Heaven
but somehow they never smell that way
when you strike them.
| A young lawyer wishing to cite an author
| ity, and not being able to remember il, his
opponent remarked, Though lost to cite, to
memory dear
wart opinion Garfield will not take Conkling
into the Cabinet, but he will place some old
rye on tap at the White House.
The New York Business Mems Society for
the encouragement of moderation has issued
a pledge binding the signer not TO drink
liquor when absent from home.
Up to this time about 10000 copies of
"Endymion" have been sold in Canada. 1t
is said that no other book has ever reached
so large a sale in the Dominion.
Miss Soprano (who has just finished play
lnSJ. Dlu uIOp ANY nOteS, DNSdl. 1tE
cousin from the rural district: NO, not
as knows on, but I'll look under the piano
an see"
4 very proper Boston girl who reads the
Bible to the family Sunday nights read of
| ''William Dad, the Shubite" referring to
him as "Bildad" being considered. TOO dread
fully familiar.
If all the dogs were sent to Lapland, the
lawyers To Lie-beria, the dOnkeys TO Brayzil,
the lovers to Sigh-beria the editors to News
zealand and the key-hole angels to Peru,
| the eternal fitness of things would have
equilibrium down TO fine point.
The following lines have been copied from
a stone in Gravesend, l.. J.:
ITO all my friends bid adieu;
! more sudden death you never knew:
As was leading the old mare to drink,
He kicked, and killed me quicker'n wink"
Circumstances alter costumes: YES" said
the young lady, who was going sleigh riding.
to her maid, Il will put on leggings and my
thick overshOes. i don't care about my
cardinal hose. Mr.. Gritf is a careful driver.
lie never upsets."
Women are less given to suicide than men
are, and married people less than the I'M
married The favorite mode of suicide in
France is by the use of charcoal or by jump
ing from a height; that of Germany is by
drowning or shooting. The highest death
4 Scotch clergyman of Ayr, a few Sun
DAYS ago, PRAYED: 40, Lord, bless the Estab-
lished Church and the Free Church, and the
United Presbyterian Church and all the
other Churches. Thou kuowest the various
ncknames Lord, by which they are called;
bless them all"
"Yes." said great traveller, "get the st.
Bernard if you want good dog. Thousands
of times have ] seen this noble animal in
ii L.
the slack of his trousers over the highest
mountains of Europe The truth isn't half
told about these superb creatures"
'What does your husband do" asked
the census man. "He amt doin' nothin'
now" replied the young wife. Is he a
pauper% asked the census man. She blushed
scarlet to the Law. no." she ex-
claimed somewhat Indignantly; "a papa9-
why, We amt been married mOre'n six
weeks"
Secretary Golf has telegraphed to Phila-
delphia that anv boy from Girard College
meeting the requirements of the Navy De
partment can be enlisted in the Navy 10
serve during his minority. Secretary
Thompson held that boys from the College
not having parents or guardians could not
be enlisted
A circus proprietor has offered premium
of $4,000 to the loveliest lady in America
on the condition that she gives her services
for thirty days as the main participant in a
grand daily pageant. 1t is stated that as
beauty, and not talent, is required, good
looks alone will secure the prize. But what
man, or men, will dare decide the question?
a newspaper directed to "His Satanic Ma
jesty: Hell, Below China fell into the
hands of the mail agent on the Salem Branch
Railroad, Virginia, the other day. Being
puzzled as to what disposition he should
; make of the paper he referred the III tier to
the Postmaster at Salem, who settled the
matter by saying: "All foreign mail matter
goes North"
steeple at Ionia, MicL., is thought TO be
: bewitched. Zone night itappeared TO stretch
up and bore hole in the clouds At another
time it seemed to wabble about and lean
over, and IFS last trick was TO appear % be
on fire" Ionia whisky must be getting in
its work on the folks near that steeple.
A Boston composer has set the sounds of
Niagara Falls 70 music. The next thing we
know some hend will set the noise OF a
boiler shop 10 music and distribute il
through organs of Italian descent And
then there will be blood split A boiler
shop fantasy, with staccato movement
coming right on the heels OF "Pinafore."
would make even the American Peace So
ciety howl for war.
young man from SnuteSbury, Mass,
having his girl along. took her to dinner at
a hotel not far from amherst the other day.
and the pair were"seatcd together at the
; table. Directly in front OF them stood
, glass containing celery, the white crisp
stalks still having the green leaves on them.
Never having seen anything of the sort be-
fore, and installing it for something orna-
mental. he turned to his sweetheart and re-
marked, in a drawing tone: That's hefty
bo'kay, amt it?'
DE reason what for we presented de resie-
nation OF. our pastor was for de cause ,lat his
services had become disbeneficial to de
, Church" was the lucid statement of q col
ored trustee in answer to an inquiry as to
i the pastors motive for leaving. MANY a
; white brother who has resigned his PASTORAL
charge, owing to the real or imaginary dis