The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-03-15
IMPRESSIONS.
Whoever Aa.ters betrays.-Massillon.
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.


Literature is the Immortality Of speech.
Goodness thinks no i'll where no i'll seems.
Politeness ia wreath of flowers that
sdorns the world.
All philosophy lies in two words-''sus-
tain" and "abstain."
Hypocrisy admits the worth of what it
mimics with such care.
The stateliest building man can raise is
the ivy's food at last.-Dickens.
The human soul Reeds to be mated to de.
velop all its value.-J. j. Rousseau.
Learn to say mol and it will be of more
use to you than TO be able to read Latin
Sturgeon.
To remind man Of q kindness con-
ferred is little less than reproach.--De-
mosthenes.
Human experience, like the stern. light Of
a ship at sea, illuminates only the path we
have passed over.
Silence is the safest response for all the
contradiction that arises from impertinence,
vulgarity or envy.
There are persons who do not know how
TO waste their time alone, and hence become
the scourge of busy people.
One OF the mistakes in the conduct of hui
man life is to suppose that other mems opin-
ions are TO make us happy.
in families well ordered, there is always
one firm, sweet temper, which controls with
out seeming to dictate.-Lord Lytton.
Admiration and love are like being in
toxicated with champagne; judgment and
friendship like being enlivened.-Johnson.
There never did and never will exist any
thing permanently noble and excellent in a
character which is a stranger to the exercise
of resolute self denial.
The goodness which struggles and battles,
and goes down deep, and scars high, is the
stuff of which heroism is made, sy which
The world is sailed and kept pure. 1t is the
seed which bears fruit in martyrs and makes
men nobler than their nature-and demi-
gods and prophets of better time.
VIII took seat in the corner of the
room, and kept quiet so long that the other
members OF the family knew that some
thing unpleasant had occurred TO him.
Whats the matter. WHIP" asked his
father. "Oh, nothing; only Pm never going
to be kind-hearted again" "Why2' "Oh,
nothing; only found a hornet frozen up
in the garnet" well, what did you dor"
"0h, nothing; only thawed him out, and
the moan little thing stuck me with his PEN
knife for thanks-that's all.
At social gathering not long since, the
subject of bald heads came up for discussion,
and it was the subject of general mystifca-
ton that there are SO many more bald head
ed men than there are women. Nobody was
able to give a reasonable explanation for
this until old Colonel Swipes, who is balder
than watermelon, and has buried five
wives, spoke up. He said it was perfectly
plain to him why men bad less hair on their
heads than women. lie was asked TO ex
plain, which he did, thus: "You
see, gentlemen, when man gets
mad he pulls his own hair out, and when
his wife gets mad she pulls out what there
is left of it. 1t is mystery to me how a
married man is able to keep single hair in
his head"
The following are few of the advertise
ments in the "want column" of the new
aesthetic paper: A fier and drummer to
play the march OF intellect; y pair of snuff
fers to trim the light of other days; A ring
to fit the finger of scorn; A new cushion for
the seat of government; A mathematical
problem performed by figure of speech;
Some snow gathered in the winter of our
discomfort; A tooth from the jaws of death;
Thread used in making the traces of sorrow;
A bottle Of the mist of ages; Some cement
for the crack of doom; A lock of hair from
the Headless Horseman; A chip from the
post of honor; Some earth from the field Of
fancy; A shoe made on the Last Of the Mo-
hicans; a rag of the light of other
days; A plank from the ship of State;
Some mud from the slough of despond;
Some hair from the head of DISCOURSE; A
view from the top ofthe morning; A nail from
the finger of scorn; A smile from the Cove
of Cork; A scar from the Blight of Benin;
Some dust from the road to ruin; A note
from the music of the spheres; A motto for
the chapter of accidents A needle for the
thread of DISCOURSE; A drop from the tide
of years; An autograph of the daughter of
Faith; A shaving from fancy's airy beam;
A true lovers knot tied with equinoctial
line by the hands OF Fate; A shroud of the
Phantom Ship; A rung of the ladder Of
fame; A spoke from the wheel of fortune.