The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-07
TABLE GOSSIP.

Men sDu watches don't amount TO much
when they run down.
The Queen of Roumania: Hope is IA
tigue lesding to deception.
William Penn said the trusest end of his
life is to know thas life never ends.
The best society and conversation is that
in which tie heart has greater share than
the head
There is scalm content and self-satisfac-
ton about clean shirt that higher phi
losophy can not supply.
Every maa in the world has 8 master
whom be is trying all the time to please
and that master is himself.
Said the wise old lady with solemn truth
fulness, "If we could once see our lives as
God sees 'em 1t would skeer us most to
death"
Ingenious men have tried to invent a
only article that succeeds in that line.-Bos-
ton Commercial.
Lord Houghton when asked why he did
not visit the United States, replied: 81 am
afraid to go, because might never want to
come home again"
Many in this world run after felicity like
an absent minded man looking for his hat,
while all the time it is on his head or in his
hand.-Sydney Smith.
Professor Hodge, of Cambridge, has said
great many good things in his long life,
but nothing better than this, what we
need most is not to realize the ideal, but to
idealize the real"
1t MAKES mans mouth water to read of
nd hax- H.
posed of china, sour wine, black coffee,
tough turkey and politicians who are going
TO Europe for the benefit of the party.
ayes, i've got horrid cold,' said Mrs
JeR kison. "l've dosed and dosed and I.
don't get one bit better. 'Pon my word 1
believe I've taken no less than SO articles
and begin to feel like an Episcopalian."
Boston Transcript.
1t is in the lesser details of the toilet that
ladies individual taste or fancy is chiefly
expressed. Her costume may be Of Paris
importation, but the little accessories re-
quired to set off the toilet are always left to
her own selsction.-What to Wear.
When Nebraska paper wishes to insin-
uate that prominent citizen is going to
the bad through liquor, it says: "The Hon.
orable Mr.. Murphy is making a valuable
collection of snakes" Western editors
know how to express themselves POLITICALLY.
Rev. Mr. Richards, of the A B. G. FIN.
at Natal, South Africa, has made success
full trip to Umzillss' country. He found
the king the best looking colored man he
ever saw, and very much of a gentleman.
He received very cordial invitation to es-
tablish a mission in the kings country.
The clippings of sole leather in New En-
gland shoe factories were formerly regarded
as worthless, and the smell of their burning
was popularity of such towns as Lynn
and Salem. These scraps are now stamped
into buttons for clothes and fancy tack
heads for upholstery, and the long familiar
odor is missed.
Says Andrews American Queen: ''Those
who think that, in order 10 dress well, it is
necessary to dress extrsvsgsntly or grsndly.
make a grand mistake. Nothing so well
becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity"
How many ambitious women in society or
icule if they had sense enough to understand
this.
Young English girls are wearing low
dresses at balls this season more than they
have for years previous, but they also wear
the waists cut open in point or square
a. the throat, and the German half low
is Giso adopted. Small, pulled sleeves,
coming half way to the elbow, and sleeves
cut in points laced across white under
sleeve are also worn.
The sponge is always getting, and never
gives unless it is squeezed, or is so full it can
Lot hold all it has Human nature has much
the same tendency to absorb and hold. The
true test of the reality and strength of NOR
al and religious principle in man is the
amount Of sponge it takes out Of Aim. Ii
this element can No. be taken out in any
other way, then it is well to squeeze him,
and death will do it soon nougn.-Golden
Rule.
at the Columbia College law commence
ment Chauncey M. .Depew said, with grim
seriousness, that if the Legislature met but
once in four years not single interest
would suffer, and security and stability
would promote prosperity. With an an
cient people, he said, every man who pro-
posed a new law did 30 with rope round
his neck, signiiying his willingness to be
hung if it worked badly. Ifthat rule pre-
vailed here the speaker remarked, what e
multitude of public executions there would
be.
The Operator says it takes nerve, patience
and good temper to make good telephone
operator, and those who lack any one of
these essentials had better let the profession
alone. Only one person out of Eve, on the
average, has a good telephone voice. They
speak too low or too loud. Not more than
one person out of twenty has the voice
which a telephone operator should have
pleasant. even, plain and devoid of pecu-
lisrities- Let one of the best operators talk
to you over twenty miles of wire and you
will fancy that he stands beside you.