The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-05
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TABLE GOSSIP.
ideas strangle statutes.-Wendell Phil
lips.
Love is like the moon: when it does not
increase it decreases.-Segur.
Queen Victoria remains faithful TO that
ideal material of elderly ladies, black
silk.
The question of the day is not only care
your windows open toward Jerusalemf
but, are they provided with fire escapes?-
Puck.
The character of the Central American
earthquake region is told by the name given
to it by the aboriginal Indians: Cuscatian
-ethe land that swings like q hammock.
Somebody has figured out that Wander
bits income would allow him to, in one
day, visit 5000 circuses, eat 10000 pints OF
peanuts and drink 5000 glasses OF lemon
ade.
The universe is threatened with a new
work from Mr.. Martin f. Upper, the au-
thor of "Proverbisl Philosophy" It is a
collection of plays and dramatic scenes for
private thestrlcsls.
At recent New York wedding the
bridesmaids wore GGinsborOugh hats, and
the happy pair were kept in blissful ignO-
rance of each others whereabouts during
the first part ofthe ceremony.
It strictly and philosophically true in
nature and reason that there is no such thing
as chance or accident; il being evident that
these words do not signify merely mems lg-
norance of the real and immediate cause
Adam Clarke.
Ohio has larger number of volumes in
her college libraries than any State in the
Union. She leads off with 312,572 vol
umes; Massachusetts comes next with 272,-
52S volumes, and then New York with
237, 224 volumes.
The heart, the hearti oh, let it spare
sigh for others pain;
The breath that soothes brothers care
And though it throb at gentlest touch
Or sorrows faintest call,
tTWere better il should ache too much
Than never ache at all. Eliza Cook.
Thirteen hundred years ago there were
but nine books in sll England. They were
the great and sacred treasure of the monks
of Canterbury, and were the germ of the
first English library. There are now nearly
million and quarter of books in the
British museum.
The Archbishop of York recently felt
constrained to say in reference to an sp-
preaching confirmation: THE female can
didstes should be encouraged to dress with
simplicity, so that no constraintness Of IN
usual fnery may tend to distract tSeir atten-
ton from the service"
The society for Political Education will
shertly publish, through tie Putnams, the
second series of their Library" This will
include Blanqui's History of Political
Economy in Europe" money and the
Mechanism of Exchange" by j. Stanley
Jevons, and John Stuart Mills essay "On
Liberty"
In the Morsvian settlement near Salem,
n. c., the old custom of announcing the
death of Church member by the music of
q band in the Church tower is still adhered
to. Those versed in music, it is SAID, can tell
from the air played whether the dead per
son was married or single, young or old,
male or female.
"See here" said fault-fnding husband,
1--WE must have things arranged In this
house so that we shall know Just where
everything is kept" with all my heart, "
sweetly answered his wife; "and let US begin
with your late hours, my love. 1 should
dearly like to know where they are kept.
He let things run as usual.
In the way of ball dresses the newest
thing-the very newest-mentioned by the
European papers leads one to believe that
the next fashionable move will be in the d.
rection of tights and trunks. These dresses
can scarcely be denominated clothing. They
are made with the slightest apology for
q waist In place OF a sleeve they have a
very slight strap, and as for the blackwell
the dresses have no back at all, but the fair
wearers display not little of their own
backs.
WouldEt thou be a happy liver,
Let the past be past foreyerl
Fret not when prigs and pedants bore you;
Enjoy the good that's set before you;
But chiefly hate no man; the rest
Leave thou to God, who knows what's best.
Goethe.