The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-05-10
PLEASANTRIES.

eyes" he said "there are some advantages
in marrying a red headed girl. False hair
of that color comes cheap"
All sorts of sleeves are admissible for la
dies dresses, bat the coat sleeve, round the
waist, remains the fayorlte.
At curiosity shop: 80, the charming
little boxl Antique, isn't it'll" 'No madame,
it is modern" ''Whst a pity-it was so
pretty"
Cincinnati established "widow's home, y
open to ali widows who intend to remain
widows. There is one house in Cincinnati
that is tenanted only by the janitor.
A mother advised her daughter, who was
going to party, to Gil her hair, and tainted
away when that candid damsel replied:
"Oh, no, ma; it is so apt to spoil the gentle
mems vests"
"Do you enjoy married hfe2" asked q
spinster Of a friend who had just returned
from her wedding trip. "Ls, how can /
tell?" blushingly answered the bride. I've
only been married three months"
She had been in the country only short
time, coming from the Emerald Isle, so her
employer was not surprised when she caus-
ally asked if ned have his eggs boiled in hot
Orcold water.-Oil City Derrick.
The remark of an exchange that "many
Of our successful lawyers began life as
preachers" is gracefully corrected BY one OF
the legal gentlemen referred to, who bags
leave to state that he began life as an in
FAINT
Jumbo, the new elephant, is great COM
fort to the clergymen who must go to see
him as great curiosity in natural history,
and at the same time get good deal of
circus mixed in, as it were, ''unbeknownst'
to them.
The last straw is a strike for higher wages
by the plumbers in Now York. 1t ia
thought about four dollars per hour, with an
intermission of fifteen minutes to talk to the
maid in the kitchen, would be considered
about fair.
"I'm no sectarian," said Joe Shuttle, as
he grew warm in religious argument. 81
believe every man ought to be a strict Pres
byterian," and then he looked around in
wonder an audible smile waited into the
evening air.
Sarah Bernhard is married. When
Charle> Mathews married Madame Vestris
there was much amusement. 'She told him
everything" said one pretty actress. "What
coursge" said another. "But what a men,
oryl" said third.
mo woman is worth looking at after
thirty" said young Mrs. A, bride with all
the arrogant youthfulness of twenty-one
summers. "Quite true, my dear" answered
Lady d., very pretty woman some ten or
fifteen years older; ''nor worth listening to
before."-Waif.
Eyes" she said "My husband has treat
cd me brutally, but I'll be revenged! I'll
begin cleaning house at once, and he'll sleep
IN room with the carpet up and loose tacks
on the cold floor; he'll wade through clouds
of dust and he'll eat his meals on the top of
the ice chest in the woodshed, for ten days"
She was ''sorry she spoke" Young far
mer surveying the stock IA pretty tidy
lot, Maria" Wife Considerably .he senior)
faye, but they would ma be there maybe
warn it for my brasil" Husband (nettled)
-"Why. lass, gin it be COON to that wi We.
if it had no. been for your money, mayhap
ye wild ma been here yerselfI'
A man spends eighteen cents for lager.
ten cents for tobacco, twenty cents for
cigars, fifteen cents for street-car fare, and
loses $3.50 at poker; he then permits his
wife to purchase button-hook for three
cents, and figures that her extrayagances
will ruin him in three years. What is his
capital2-The New Arithmetic.
A census Of elephants in the United
States shows the number to be just seventy
seven. Barnum, with his usual enterprise,
will have ninety of these animals before the
summer closes, and Forepaugh will own the
remaining sixty. This will leave less than