The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-02-22

With a free hands ana don't De OVer-hlcet
The first ingredient in good conversation
is truth, the next good sense, the the third
good humor, and the fourth wit.
Bob Ingersoll having confessed that he
doesn't know what is to come after death,
his followers have secretly begun to lay in a
stock of fans.
A lover is a man who endesvors to be
more amiable than it is possible for him to
be; this is the reason why almost all lovers
are ridiculous.
Stories first heard at a mothers knee are
not wholly forgotten; a little spring that
never quite dries up on your journey through
scorching years.
The latest edition of Professor Noble But
ler's English Grammar tolerates the use of
"catcheo" IN lieu of caught" Webster
permits The employment of ak" in place of
"ask." The world moves.
Since his retirement from the Supreme
Court, Justice Strong has undertakes to
deliver before the Lsw School of the Col
umbiam University, at Washington. series
of lectures on The History OF the Constitu-
tion."
us u Qccp uilStcTN-lHo way INC mart
turns to one woman out of all the rest he's
seen in the world, and makes it easier for
MIN 10 work seven years for her. like Jacob
did for Rachel sooner than have any other
woman for the asking,
Friends" once said clergyman to a
number of. people who had entered his
Church for the purpose of getting out of
the rain, Il have often heard of the Church
being used us a cloak for ones sins, but
this is the first time ever heard OF its be-
ing used as an umbrella"
Tie Massachusetts Senate have rejected q
House bill providing that woman convict
ed OF fornication may be semitic the Reforma-
terry Prison for term OF hot more than two
yesrs-for the reason that no similar punish
ment is provided for man guilty of the
same crime. The point is we'll taken. But
why not make similar penalty for crimi-
mails OF both sexes?
81 think" said Mrs. Partington. getting
up from the breakfast-table, 81 will take o
tower or go on discussion. The bill says,
if / collec: rightly. that party is to go to q
very plural spot, and 10 mistake of very
cold collection. hopeit won't be as cold rs
ours was for the poor last Sunday. Why,
there wasn't efficient to buy foot for res
tituts wilder" And the old lady put on
her sash and left.
Sixteen American inventions of world
wide adoption are the cotton gin, the plant
ing machine, the telee raph, the mower and
reaper, the rotary printiDg -pIess, steam nav
igation, the hot air engine, the sewing ma
chine, the Indis-rubber industry, the ma
chine manufs cture of horse shoes, the sand
blast for carving, the gauge lathe, the grsin
elevator, artificial ice making on a large
scale, the electric magnet, and the tele-
phone.
In the New York Woman's Prison re-
porter talked to an inmate who had been
arrested for drunkenness. She was twenty
four years of age and had started on her
career ss a newsgirl. She wss not inclined
to say that, all things considered, her life
had been unfortunate, and she expressed
this bit of sad wisdom: Had l been ugly /
might have had hard time. But good
looks go long way farther than good
morals"
One of the funny indications of the
growth of civilization among the Indian
students at Hampton School is the change
of names that is rapidly going on, both
among the children and their parents, when
brought under their influence at home. The
girls seem inclined to adopt the names of
teachers or lady friends to whom they may
be attached; but the boys transform their
Indian names, sometimes in. most aston
ishing way Bears Heart has melted, and
now writes his nsme Mr.. J. B. Heart. The
father of one of the returned students, who
formerly bore the Encouraging name. Don't
know-How, now dresses in 'sstore-clothes"
and has nut mn a sion ID X How Roman
Nose has been induced to adopt the initials
of generous white friend, and writes him.
self now j. Cuthbert r. Nose. Whether
Rosa-Lay- Out-of-Doors will come in and be
converted in this revival of names we have
not learned. The way in which this change
is going on may throw light upon the name
building of people of higher pretensions
than our young friends from Dakota.