The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-03
TABLE GOSSIP.


Politicians 90 up the ladder of fame by the
rounds OF drinks.
Bachelors wives and old maids children
are always perfect -Chamfort.
Everybody is willing to take religion when
be has got out Of the world all it can give
him.
1t is always safe 10 learn, even from our
enemies; seldom safe TO venture to instruct
even our friends.
a happy marriage is a new beginning of
life, a new Starting-point for happiness and
usefulness.-Dean Stanley.
1t is necessary to try to surpass ones self
always; this occupation ought to last as long
as life.-Queen Christiana.
Henry Carey, who was born in 1868, wrote,
among other good things, these lines, which
will not wear out by repetition
envy no mortal, though ever so great,
Nor seOrn a wretch for his owly estate;
But what abhor, and esteem as curse,
Is poOrness Of spirit, not pOorness OF purse
Lord Sandwich said to Priestly on one oc
caSion, Orthodoxy is simply my doxy, and
heterOdOxv is all other kinds of doXy."
The man who is in the wrong uses hard
words and soft arguments, while the man
who is in the right uses soft words and hard
arguments.
How thankful we should be if the Lord
would only spoil US by giving US so much
good fortune that we should become mean
and parsimOniousi
If you are real man, then do a real mans
work and say nothing about it, but if you
are only a rooster, why, OF course you can't
help Growing at nothing.
The world would be vastly better thanit is
If we only had the courage to say to our evil
companions, I'VE don't care to write with q
feather out of your goose"
The new colors, this season, with the ez-
ceptiOn of gray, are bright and decided. All
shades of gray from the delicate turtle dove
10 iron gray are fashionable.
Every year three or more books and publ
cations relating to art issued in the English
language than in any other. The German
comes next and the French third.
There is not single experience IN life
which may not be used to advantage if you
have wisdom. That which will not be made
into butter may be made into cheese.
No man has enough, and no matter how
much he has he always wants a little more;
but the old properb says, He have enough
one day, when his mouth is full of mould"
Don't try TO do more than you can do well.
There is an old Hebrew prOverb which runs,
HE that hires one garden eats birds; he that
that hires more than one will be eaten by the
birds"
A good sermon is like black pepper in soup
for though it makes the soup little hot it
aids digestion. A sensational sermon is like
cayenne pepper on the stove its only mission
IS to make people sneeze.
A cure for wasp stings consists in the
placing of the hollow barrel of key imme-
diately around the sting till il bursts
On removing the key the sting will be
found lying outside the puncture 1t has
made.
A large soul is piece of personal property
which every industrious man can acquire
but some men have souls so small that a
whole regiment of them could stand ION
the tip end OF pine stick Whitfield down to
nothing"
The man of sixty who has been failure all
his life is Just the man to take fellow of
five and twenty aside and tell him how to
get rich, and mention what a fortune he
would make if he were only ten or fifteen
years younger.
We promise largely in our youth, but in
middle life we drink the bitter beer of dis
appointment. We have it in us to be great,
but somehow circumstances don't favor US.
Andrew Borde who lived Just this side of
ChaQcer, told the story i'm two lines, and they
contain the entire biography OF many a
man
Jews and Christians were never anywhere
more completely separated than during the
past season at the Catskills All Jews or none
was the rule alike at hotels and boarding
houses. Two hotels we're kept by brothers,
and in one establishment there was no Israel
lite, while in the other there was no Gentle.
But have such matters rolling in my pate
That will and dol cannot tell what
This has been recently copied from one OF
the original Plymouth Colony Records "At
the Gen1 Court, holden att Plymouth the
2cond of October, 1858, the Governor and
Assistant direct Lieutenant James Watt
to bee sharply reproyed for his writing a
note about common business on the Lord
day, att least in the evening somewhat toe
soone."
In 1896 the best railroad time between
New York and New Orleans was five days
and passenger had to make nine changes,
many of them long rides from depot &c
depot. In 1869 the time was reduced to four
days; in 1873 to three and half days, and
in 1873 to three days and only one change
Now the time has been reduced to forty-eighi
hours.
A well advised exchange classifies the
Americn watering places and their specialize:
of guests as follows: Newport English
celebrities and their American imitatOrs
Saratoga, politicians musicians and sports
men; Long Branch, actors. actresses and
railroad kings the Adirondacks, Mount