The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-03-14
TABLE GOSSIP.

dalre.
, Women are most perfect when most wo-
msnly.-Gladstone.
No wine or other intoxicating drink was
upon the table at Governor Cleveland's first
state dinner.
During the last ten years we have sold
81, 2O5 S04, 761 more than we have bought
from foreign Nations.
Girl graduates in England wear gowns
precisely like those worn by university
men, and made by the same tailor.
To indulge in ridicule, whether the sub
ject be present or absent. is to descend below
the level of gentlemsnly propriety. Your
skill may excite laughter, but it will not in
sure respect.
In Washington the cry of the horse-csr
passenger is: mo seat, no fare" hut
lady who is not blessed with the fatal gift
of beauty afirms it as her belief that
in crowded car the gentlemen's maxim
is: 'Not fair, no seat"
The Woman Sufragist says that though
women belong to the weaker sex no woman
khas ever set up for weather prophet or
undertaken to eat 60qusils in 30consecutive
days. Hang it; you may vote st the next
election for all we care.
1t is suggested, since the bestowal of dec
oratiops upon servants who have kept their
situations for great while, that a similar
recognition should be conferred upon the
masters and mistresses who retain their SER
wants for an unusual period.
Among the alleged Lords of creation the
tight trousers, cut-swsy coat, high collars
and much curved Derby hat is the prevail
ing "every day fashion," and the spring
does not promise anything new or startling
in the line Of masculine outfit.
'My son." says the Burlington Hawkeye,
"when you hear man growing and scold-
ing all the while because, as he says, Moody
gets 5000 week for preaching Christianity,
you will observe that he never worries q
minute because Ingersoll gets $500 or 81 900
8 night for preaching atheism"
The archives of Dsrmstsdt show the ex-
pense Of executing criminals in the four
teenth century: Boiling a criminal in oil
twenty-four iorins; burning him alive was
fourteen forms; to break him on the wheel
was six; hanging him was ten, and brand
ing him on the shoulder or forehead, or cut
ting off his ears or nose, was five forms.
Gustsve Dore's name was originally
"Dorer," genuine and not unfrequent
sequently hailed from the old German stock
of Alsace. In spite of the Frenchifcstion
of his name, Dore's Teutonic blood showed
itself Enthusiastically in his illustrations
of German fairy tales and weird myths.
A commission was sent by Japan to give
q report of the influence of Christianity
upon morals in England. After eighteen
months of London life the decision was
alak Aa1 1aaa sn%
crime, and especially drunkenness, than
public religion of Japan will remain un-
changed.
A contributor to Puck say: "In one gut
ter saw pig, in the other the semblsnce
of q man. The pig was sober, the man was
drunk. The pig had ring in his nose, the
other animal had one on his finger. The
pig gruHted, go did the man. And said
aloud, we are known BY the company we
keep and the pig grunt and walked away,
ashamed to be seen In the company of q
drunken man."
When a race of women arises so sweet, so
wise, so strong, that the race of men they
bear and rear must wear forever on their
plastic brains and souls the woman's mental
and spiritual seal, women will command,
through their natures and by their own wis
dom, the things thsy want, and they will
want more and greater than they do to-day,
and speeches and conventions will no longer
be recessary.-Mary Clemmer.
The Denver Inter-Ocean says: "It isn't
any of our funeral, but the man Coppinger,
(Colonell, who married MIR. James g.
Blaine"s daughter. at Washington, is not q
good man to have IN the family unless Miss
Blaine feels disposed toward missionary
work. Col. Coppinger Is in the regular
army as Inspector General. He is bald
and gray, with 'penshong' for good whis-
ky. He has been making love to all moth
era, and has chaproned all the daughters at
Fort Lssvenworth these many years
back"
The same old straw is being threshed
again all around US. The Maine Legisls-
ture discusses capital punishment, and
quotes DR.. CEeever; the Massachusetts Gen.
eral Court listens to Lucy Stone and denies
her petition; the Rhode Island Assembly
hsrke1s to talk about the Suffrage qualities
ten; Congress has been listening to the old
tariff arguments once more; Governor But
Ter and more or less of the papers are try
ing to fnd whether or not the world grows
better, and country lyceums are eloquent
over the problem of reason or instinct as
guiding the actions of the lower animals.
Shall we never get anything settled in this
world of ours2
IF the Government Of England were now
in the hands of the Conservative party,
we should witness the issuance of an i'm
perstive order to Russia to stay her advance
in Turkistah. In another column we have
indicated the political importance of Mery
as barrier between the Russian and En-
gIish possessions in ASIA. Five years ago its
seizure by Russia would have been consid-
cred casus belli by England. But times
have changed, and with them the situation
in the East of England's responsibility,
With the load Of administration in Egypt
upon their shoulders, Mr.. Glsdstone's min
istry will hardly care to assume defiant
tone. The Russians have taken an oppor-