The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-03-29
TABLE GOSSIP.
No great man Is hungry for fame

No great man Is hungry for iame-
An anagram: Christianity-it's in char
ity.
Nature never hurries; atom by atom, lit
tie by little, she achieves her work.
Genius az first is little more than a grea.
capacity for receiving discipline .-George
Eliot.
The world is comedy 10 those that
think, a tragedy TO those that feel.-Hcrace
Walpole.
1t isn't the whisky in Kentucky that
makes mischief it is the whisky in Ken
tuckians. COurier-Jour
A Bostonian attended o prayer-meeting
and heard so many confessions of crime that
he concluded it was no place for him. He
felt as though ne needed better society.
A lady who follows Lady Harberton's re-
commentator 10 wear the divided skirt,
says: "You will never know the real pleas
ure of the new invention until you can put
your hands into the side pockets
At a meeting of the Boston Natural His
tory Society, Mr.. S. w. Gzrman gave an
account Of wren found in the "Bad
Lsnds" OF Dakota, which protects its nest
against hawks and owls by barricsde of
stones
There Is no place in the wide world like
home. It Is the dwelling place of our
hearts treasures, and the first of our lives
we owe to it and its inmates. To make it
pleasant and attractive should be the aim Of
every man.
"Spiritual Poverty in Society" may be
much to be deplored, but there is not half as
much lamentation made over it as there Is
about the pecuniary poverty which binders
. persons from appearing in society in IS good
clothes as they would like to exhibit New
NYork Sun.
I An ostrich on farm in Cape Colony
kicked one of the farm hands to death last
month And yet they talk of introducing
Ehe culture of this bird into the United
States It's Just about all our teamsters can
DO now TO get along with the pale gray
3nule with brindled legs. What will be-
come of the republic il you introduce mule
with wings.
The solution OF the vexed question of wo-
! mans sphere is very simple. A woman
true place is in doing whatever circum-
stances and her own nature and abilities
prompt her to do, whether it be domestic or
business or professional circles. Every duty
which woman is competent to perform
lies Within her sphere.
Ruskin Is bringing out new work. en-
titled 'Our Fathers Have Told U.s." which
is intended to illustrate, by the story of
saint ard knight, the power of the Christian
Church in the thirteenth century. The
book wilt discourse about the monastic
architecture of England and Wales, and also
a5Oat Florence and Pisa.
Philosophers have puzzled themselves
how to define man, go as to distinguish him
from other animals. Surke savs, "Man is
an animal that cooks his victuals." 'Then,
says johnson, "the proyerb is just, there is
reason in roasting eggs" DR.. Adam Smith
has hit this case, "Man," says he, ais an
animal That makes bargains; no other ami
NAL does this-one dog does not change .
bone with another"
Grace Green ood says. in en- article on
"John Chinaman in America" in a late
number o, All the Year Round, that the
ideal theory of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence has been gradually realized by abol-
ishing, one after another, such tests of citi-
zenship rs religion. property, alien birth,
and color, until only two exceptions now
remSin. Tire denial OF citizens rights to
Mon Oi5 a9d women.