The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-05-17
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those that never come.
The expression "widow ladies" is still
found in the New York Herald. Perhaps
they are widow women"
French wisdom: "Love is queer thing
and so is happiness. To enjoy either com
pletely it has to be shared"
We talk of forgetting. As a matter of
fact, we never forge: anything. An impress
sion made upon the mind remains there for
ever.
Old style checkered ginghsms in dainty
shades of pink and blue, but vastly improved
in the weaving, have returned TO popu-
lsrity.
The old proverb, ''The better the day, the
better the deed" doesn't apply to an instru-
ment conveying real estate drawn up on
Sunday.
It has not been demonstrated which is the
more disastrous in its results-to deprive the
Ohio man of Office or to stint or totally shut
off his supply of beer.
The Hartford Post happily says that wo-
men who attend the Malley trial without
cotton in their ears do great injustice to a
staple which has befriended them in many
emergencies.
Don't be afraid of loving people too much,
ur throwing away too much kindness. 1t il
Just such things the world stands in need of,
and they have the great advantage of en-
riching the giver.
The bride at Bay City, Michigan, we'd
ding would submit to kisses only on condl-
ton that they were paid for at 81 each.
They sold readily at that price, and 1882
Was realized for q charity
Al recent diamond show at the resi-
dence of the Baroness-COutts, the largest
pure white Cape diamond known, weighing
$50 carsts, and valued at el50000, was ex-
hibited. An Indian diamond, held at ESQ,
600, was also shown.
A tiny incandescent electric spark is now
so fixed as to replace and outshine the
diamond in lady's brooch. But it will
never be popular. An electric woman
would be utterly non-touchable. and the
ladies know that.
Let the child-iife dwell as long as it will
in the heart of the child. Care and the
sense of burdened responsibility will come
all too swiftly. But the lingering glow and
glsdness of early years shall touch with
sOftness their hard lines.
each in his own place and time and way
must work Gods will; and some must bear
the burdens while others sing the songs
and some must tread the thorny paths while
others dance; and what does it matter in the
end, so that 1t be all we'll doneI'
As ships meet at sea moment together,
when words of greeting must be spoken,
and then away into the deep, so men meet
in this world; and think we should cross
no mans path without hailing him, and, if
he needs. giving him supplies.-Henry
Ward Beecher.
N Y. Tribune: It is said that the "whip-
ping post bill" rec ntly passed by the Mary
land Legislature for the special benefit of
wife-beaters has already produced saln-
tary impression upon that class of rufisns.
Having no niggers to wollop, and not dar-
ing to wollop their wives, life must indeed
seem to them dreary pilgrimage.
A German comic paper which poked a
little fun at Bismarck has been ordered to
suspend publication for two years, and its
editor has been sent to jail for three months
This May seem severe to people who are not
acquainted with the merits Of the case, but
to those who know what excruciating jokes
a German comic paper can perpetrate when
it tries, the punishment seems almost ridic-
ulously light.
A prominent writer of eulogy on con-
nubisl bliss says it is often the case when
you see q great man, like a ship, sailing
proudly along the current of renown, that
there is a little tug-his wife-whom you
can not see, but who is directing his move
ments and supplying the motive power
Just imEnagine Brigham Young in this con-
nection. There were enough tugs around
him to have ysnked him along at the rate
of sixty miles an hour.
A German lady told me good story at
dinner-table last evening. In Switzerland
she met with one of our countrymen who,
in circle of ladies and gentlemen at large
hotel, was Boosting of the great freedom en-
joyed by tise people of America, so superior,
he said, to that enjoyed by any other Nation
on earth. WY" he said, pulling out of
his pistol pocket revolver, and fourishing
it before his hearers, with that can ira ell
uEmolested from one end of the United
States to the other."-Munich Letter.
I'VE are generally inclined, and not un-
naturally, to Judge q mans intellectual
stst1s by his sch elastic requirements. We
have not seen the years of quiet labor; we
have not witnessed his strenuous efforts to
adapt himself TO his tasks; we have not seen
how ne controlled unpropItious events.
which hung upon the outskirts of his ambi-
ton; the world beholds and spplaaSs the
result, though he Knows the secret OF his
success 20 have been. simply, adapting him
self to the forces which control the deep and
silent undercurrents ct all human life.
Rsilrosd building hes begun in the far
East The next quarter of a century will
see Ninevah, Babylon. Damascus, and the
cities familiar to US through the most an
eient of ancient history, witlin easy COM
of the rest of the modern world
by complete system of railways. A road
500 miles long. is now un6er way from the
Black to the Caspian Sea. 1t runs along
the VALLEY of the river of Cyrus, south TO
the Caucasus, and from portion of it
Mount Ararat is in sight. 1t seems incred-
IDLE that there should be business to justify
in these graves Of old Nations,
but wherever human beings live they must
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