The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-31
TABLE GOSSIP.

A coquette is a woman 'ihouht any heart
| that makes fool o. a man that amt got any
head.
There are two sides to a liquor-drinking
question, and it's best TO keep the liquor on
| the outside.
Gray and dark green and blue and amber
are Worth's latest freaks in the combination
j of colors.
A firm faith is the best divinity; good
| life the best philosophy; a clear conscience
| the best law; honesty the best policy,
| and temperance the best physic.-Char-
ron.
1t is grand good thing when a man gives
MP his course of dissipation and seriously
settles down, but it is an equally grand thing
when a man has a stroke of conscientious
| ness and honestly settles up.
People who have dealings with the new
fedged graduate sometimes do come to be-
lieve there is truth as well as terseness in the
Persian proVerb-0ne pound of learning re-
qui-es ten pounds of common sense osupply
ii.
We have come across an expression which
ought to be perpetuated. An old stage
driver when speaking OF those bank default
tiers and other rogues who were once men,
bers in good standing of some Church, called
them 'ex-praying men,"
| J1st because the widows mite was so high
ly praised, there are lots of people who pride
themselves upon never putting more than a
penny into the contribution box, They think
that the offering is greater than the most lib
eral gifts of the free givers; and so it is, no
doubt if you are TO Judge by the effort il
takes on the part OF the giver.
1t is not strange to the mind of the philos-
opher of the Philadelphia Call. that pretty
widows have so many more suitors than
| equally pretty maidens. Men know that a
widow is not looking for a beautiful prince
on milk-white steed, and consequently will
not be quite so hard TO suit. In matrimony
as in other things time is great c0nsidera-
ton nowadays.
Themistocles was an old Greek fogy, and
it's extremely fortunate that he died outside
the city limits of New York. When two
young men sued for his daughters hand he
gave his preference to the poor youth. saying
| that in his opinion man without riches is
better than riches without man. Such
servatism has long since been Outgrown, and
it even seems queer that any person of COM
mon sense could have used his reasoning
powers to so little purpose
On train two gentlemen were discussing
the nativity of third who sat near them
"Pll bet he's a Southern man." NO, he
looks more like Westerner." 1--WE can tell
by asking him question, can't we?' "All
right, for the cigars, now he's a Westerner,
and I'll ask him the question" So he went
across the car and politely said: Il beg your
pardon, sir, but what time is it?' "Well
sab" be replied. looking at his watch, cit is
TO- minutes befo' fo'." That settled it.
Few of our readers, while engaged in
strengthening their nerves with a cup OF tea,
imagine they are swallowing pulverized
charcoal comeback, clay, terra alba, pull
verified soap stone, tale Prussian blue,
gravel, and other undesirable commodities
Such is the stuff scientific experts employed
by the New York Board of Health have found
in the green teas sold in that city. The best
grades of black teas are pronounced the
safest and the verdict isrendered that none
Of the green teas are pure"
The man who acts or dresses eddy for the
sake of oddly must feel himself deficient in
any quality that will arrest public notice or
challenge criticism. But the eccentricities
of the man who forgets the keen scrutiny of
the throng from absorption in the duties of
life deserve respect and not not ridicule. The
oddity in the multitude is often its choicest
character. As in dress or manners, so is it
in mind, Remember what Emerson says
ut is easy in the world to live after the
worlds opinion; il is easy in solitude to live
after your own; but the great man is he
Who in the midsv of the crowd, keeps with
perfect sweetness the independence of soli-
tude."
1t is easy to reconcile one to the belief that
be has discharged an unfulhlled task, no
matter how well aware he is of his remiss-
ness. The world is ever willing to creep
| through any pretext that enables it to escape
a responsibility. Duncan CORN, Highland
| idiot, has great many imitators. Once he
was sent with fine hare as present to
| minister, but having carelessly laid il down
by the road shepherds dog made off with
| it. Duncan, failing TO find it, went on his
| way and presented the letter he carried to
the minister without making any reference
/ to the lost hare. The minister read the note
| and remarked, 'Oh, Duncan, i see there's a
hare here" Gosh, then, that's a. RIGHT"
| said Duncan, II tocht had lost it, but if it's
there it's a. RIGHT. III just say that We
| got the hare a safe and yer muckle obleeged
| Tor it."
A Washington correspondent speaking of
| Ben. Butterwortb. says: 81 remember coming
/ with him one stormy night down street,
| when we were met by little bare headed
match girl. The rain was pouring down, and
as she turned her streaming face under our
| umbrella, lighted up rather weirdly by the
| bright windows of the cigar stand next to the
| Baltimore Sun Office, her eyes were red and
swollen. please buy some matches" she
| said, half crying. II am so cold, and am so
hungry. They are only two cents. Please
buy! Please buy!" Butterworth reached
for box of matches, and handed her some
| SILVER, enough to pay Tor many matches and
| we hurried on. For a moment he said moth
ing, but went on with his big head hanging
down. Finally he began in half soliloquy,
"My Godl NY God How some people live.
Suppose my little daughter should be out on
such a work on such night. Think of that
child in the wet and cold. and think of her
home as it probably is. And still they call
this Christian country Bahp'
A ghost always gets us at disadvantage
He comes unexpectedly and disappears very
suddenly. The other night some gentlemen
who had been INDUCING in convivial pleas
ures-pleasures which partook of a bibulous
character-lay down to sleep. Just as the
clock struck one Of the wee sma' hours cry
was heard. "A ghostp' Every mans hail
stood on end Of course for right in front o.
them was their dead friend Reinhardt
clothed in flames apparently, as though h,
had come up instead of down. They al
recognized him. but they were so frightened
that they did not approach the apparition
and in a minute more it vanished. OF course
it was not trick or practical joke, and
therefore it must have been a real and gen
uine ghost. There is one aspect of the even
| which ought not TO be lost sight of. Rein
hardt was also of bibulous propensities alive
and when he returned TO his former hannt
| the smell of fire was very strong about him
That's the rub. It's that smell of fre tina
gives us pause and makes us prefer TO beal