The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-12
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There are in Paris hundred women
journalists.
The man who gives his son inexpensive
tastes has already given him fortune.
The happiness of the human race consists
in commanding the passions, not in being
devoid of them.
If you should have just what you really
deserve-no more, no less-would you be
as happy as you are nowf
The Persians swore by the sun; the
Scythians by the air and their scimetars;
the Greeks and Romans by their gods.
ELECTRICITY, sir, will be the death of
electricity" by steam."-Charivsri.
How happy is he, born and taught,
That seryeth not another's will,
Whose armor is his honest thought,
And simple truth his utmost will
SIR HENRY WorToS.-l56S.
Men should be respected for asserting
that which they think all right. No man
should he ostracissd for doing what he
thinks right and proper.
The fashionable term for dancing couples
who make themselves conspicuous in ball
rooms by monopolizing the center of the
floor is ''chandeliering.'
The New York Graphic says that it is the
present aim of fashionable women to make
their shoulders as high and square as
possible. Gothic style. Turrets on each
wing.
Teacher, to pupil who has just finished q
fine piece of clay: "You have made perfect
vace." Pupil: "My aim, sir, shall be to
make perfect human being, that will have
two pair of hands and arms"
Speaking truth is like writing fair, and
comes only by practice; it is less matter
of will than of habit; and doubt if any &C.
casion can be trivial which permits the
practice and formation of such a habit
Ruskin.
Oh, that our lives, which flee so fast,
In purity were such
That not an image of the past
Should tear the pencils touchl
WORDSWORTH.
The hero that saves life does not catch
the vulgar fancy like the hero who destroys
it. Human sheep admire the butcher and
chant his glory. Comparatively few know n
hero when they see MIN, or even suspect
that the Hottest deeds of heroism are wrought
around them every day.
A new lace is called the "Edelweiss.' II
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which has often been a subject for romance.
1t is very sheer and fine, OF creamy tint,
and the pattern resembles the moresque de-
signs. 1t is especilly appropriate for trim
ming "nun's veilings."
Professor Cope, of Philadelphia. recently
delivered lecture before the New Century
Club, of Boston, entitled applications of
Evolution" in which he demanded higher
education for women on the grouAd of he
redity. The learned professor admitted
that he made this demand in the interest of
his own sex.
Use we'll the moment; what the hour
Brings foT thy use is in thy power;
And what thou best canst understand
Is just the thing lies nearest TO thy hand.
GOETHE.
Love, like the opening of the heavens TO
the saints, shows for mement, even to the
dullest man, the possibilities of the human
race. He has faith, hope and charity for
another being, perhaps but a creature of his
imagination; still it is great advance for
a man to DO loving even in his imagination.
II may differ from de religious folks, "
saws a colored sage, "when / say dat Is got
more respect fur de woodpecker den 1 has
fur de dove. De dove is 'ceitful. He'll coo
and coax you into sympathy, but as soon as
yer back is turned he goes ober inter de
field and pulls ND der young wheat. All
dis time dc woodpec<er has been digging a
worm out tree"
An English lecturer on dress reform says
that Eoman's waist is normally about
twenty eight inches in circumference and
oval in form; but the waist of the costume
of the period is round as barrel and eigh-
teen to twenty inches in circumference. As
the possible result of such a change of shape
the man of science declares that women are
liable to thirty-six different diseases.
This is the sort of thing the French think
amusing: Two friends met on the boulevard,
and this conversation ensues: Anything
new, to-day" Nothing particular. All, yes
l have Just learned that Gsmbetta has
bought the Journal des Debats." "Gambetts
buy the Journal des Debats2 Can that be
possible2" $50 it seems" "What did he pay
for it, 1 wonder2" ''Four sous, like every.
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