The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-28
TABLE GOSSIP.

Marriage, is by its best title, monopoly,
and OF the most invidious sort.
Education may not prevent crime, but it
is crime to prevent education.
The chemist recognizes no such thing as
dirt; it is only matter out of place.
The Boston Star hears il rumored that di-
vorce and perjury are American monopo-
| lies.
In the bright lexicon of youth the school
house is sometimes affectionately spoken of
as 'the tannery."
The Boston Commercial Bulletin says that
"Oscar Wilde was the first to discover that
there were greenbacks to sunaowers."
Conduct is the great profession. Behavior
is the perpetual revealing of us. What a
man does tells us what he is.-F. d. Hunt
ington.
A caprice that has gained local favor in
Western town is for young lady to have
her hand photographed and send it in reply
to proposal.
1t was French woman who exclaimed,
holding up glass of sparkling fresh water:
"Ahl if it were only wicked to drink this,
how nice it would taste"
81 have seen the world" says q sagacious
writer, sand after long experience have dis
covered that ennui is our greatest enemy,
remunerative labor our lasting friend"
That little girl unwittingly gave utter
snce to the principles of many of her elders
when she wrote in her compost ion: ave
should make mistakes and tell lies as seldom
as it is convenient"
The consultations of philosophy are very
| k,,< fall . 4o1lo
that life is filled with comforts if we will
but enjoy them; and on the other hand, that
though we unsvoidably have miseries here,
life is short and they soon will be over.
A monument of Indiana gray limestone,
in the form of an antique Grecian altar, has
been placed upon Bsyard Taylor's grave.
1t bears his bas-relief in bronze, and is in
scribed with his name, date of birth and
death, etc.. and half-dozen lines from his
poem, "Prince Deukalion," and the text,
HE being dead yet speaketh."
Half the silver half dollars circulated in
Montana are alleged to be counterieits
made by the Chinese In San Francisco.
They are described as of exactly the weight
of the genuine ones, and Of one thirty. sec
ond part of an inch larger in diameter.
They contain only sixteen cents worth of
silver, which is all on the surface.-Chicsgo
News.
A New York paper says the will of the
rich man of the future will read: ITO the
respective attorneys of my children 1 give
my entire estate and worldly goods of all
description. Personally to the children
and to my beloved wife l give all that re-
MAINS" This instrument will satisfy the
family and save the trouble Of proving the
old man insane.
Cases of alienation of heart trouble are
freely reported in the medical journals as
due to the use of nitro-glycerine in drop
doses. The effects of the drug are described
as sedative, gently narcotic, and, in larger
doses, not unlike alcohol. 1t would be in
teresting to know how soon "nitro-glycer
inc habit" will be added to the increasing
varieties of drug enslavement.
A thunderstorm having greatly improved
cask of bad wine in wine cellar at
Canassone, some experiments have. been
made with electricity in France. A current
of electricity was passed through a small
cask of sour wine, and at the end of few
DAYS the wine was found to be greatly i'm
proved in quality, and to have acquired that
flavor which has hitherto been supposed 10
come only with age.
If adulteratlon of food or drink were
treated in this country as il is in Germany
we should be safer. Recently wine mer-
chant OF Neustadt was tried for selling as
pure wine liquid composed OF glycerine,
wine lees, alcohol, gum arabic, almonds,
sugar, or orchard fruit, cream of tartar and
water. He was convicted on the testimony
of analysis and sentenced to pay fine of
1000 marks NEARLY S400) and all costs, to
be imprisoned at hard labor for three years
and half, and to forfeit 10000 bottles IF
his alleged "pure wine," being the entire
stock unsold in cellar. The defendant
claimed that the liquor was 'workman's
wine" and was manufactured for them, and
for distribution to the poor"