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

Patience is a remedy for sorrow.
There is but step between a proud mans
glory and his disgrace.
There is no such thing as great State built
up out of people not great
fashion paper says waists are to be
full" Especially after dinner.]
1t is on the whole cheaper not TO do
wrong than to do it and afterward repent it.
You can get no better hold of some mems
word of honor than you can OF the tail OF
wet eel.
What in a woman is called curiosity" in
q man is grandiloquently magnifed into the
spirit OF inquiry"
Wisdom would rather be buffeted than
not listened to. Folly would rather be I'M
heard than buffeted.
True politeness consists in being easy ones
self, and making everybody about one as
easy as one can Pope.
If teaspoonful of turpentine is put in the
wash boiler and boiled with the clothes it
will whiten them perceptibly.
1t sounds rather rough to speak of girl
winning mans love- If she won it she
must have been playing for it.
1t is easy to criticise what is wrong in an
other mans life, but very difficult thing
to really do much better than he does.
Some one says truly that when you put
excessive heat and excessive eat together
there is little wonder that so many people
die
A very much mistaken philosopher once
wrote rs proverb, n great load of gold
is more burdensome than a light load of
gravel.
1t has been discovered by 'Nym Crinkle''
that the electric light with its white glare is
unbecoming to blondes and becoming to
brunettes.
Nothing good is ever effected without per-
severance. 1t will never do to quit Just
when you have found the place where the
flea was at last accounts.
Kind looks, kind words, kind acts, and
warm handshakes-these are secondary means
of grace when men are in trouble, and are
fighting their unseen battles.
No matter how wretched a man may be, he
is still member OF our common species, and
if he possesses any Of the common specie his
acquaintance is worth having.
Sin is very much like the ordinary North
American mule. 1t may be very tame and
docile at the front but in the rear there is
always a sly kick hidden away and you'd
better be on your guard.
The hotel walters costume still remains
the standard for an American mans full
dress. To prevent mistakes at parties, the
Boston Traveller says, the waiter is directed
lady.
Life consists Of cutting teeth in childhood,
of the pangs of unrequited love in youth, of
dyspepsia in manhood and of fear of death
in old age, and an oppressive certainty that
the lawyers will contest your will and peck
| ct most of your money.
1t transpires that green was not always the
national color of Ireland. A drawing in the
British Museum, which was made during the
time Elizabeth shows n
| harp with golden strings on an azure ground.
The transition from blue to green is not diff
cult
1t has been noticed at watering places this
/ season that the ugliest, most horrid, and ter
rible faced women wear diamonds in pro-
| fusion. This information comes from a
young girl who wears white muslin and has
| just freckleS enough to go well with pink
| ribbons.
If you wish to know whether you are an
honest man don't ask your mother. for she
will be partial and blind, and don't ask
yourself, for You are very poor Judge, but
seek the candid opinion of the man to whom
you have sold horse, and you will surely
| get at the bottom facts OF the case.
Life is full of mrth and madness
Many griefs and sometimes gladness,
Much OF JOY and more OF sadness,
We can go through life and end il,
Leaving all the best that end it.
Charms and joys, and only spend ii,
But there is a way that's better
Choose the good and when life closes
There will be less thorns than roses
NJ. Pivion defeats one of the favorite argu-
mentS OF the anti-crematiOniStS, II his state
ment is founded Oh well-ascertained facts by
| declaring that all poisons which can be de-
| tected in body can be as readily discovered
| in the ashes so that in cases of suspected
crime the ends of justice would not be pre-
| vented by cremation.
Public opinion is not always to be regard
| ed as infallible, but when il is unanimous
| il is apt to be correct. There is very old
prOyerb, many centuries old, buttrue to-day.
| which runs in this wise: If any say that
one of thine ears is the ear of an ass, regard
| il not, but il every one says that both of
thine ears are the ears of an ass procure thy
| self bridle.'
A famous artist made painting in which
l all the different nations of the earth we're
represented in the peculiar dress of their
| country. Instead, however, of clothing the
| Frenchman he drew him in his shirt, with
bundle of cloth under his arm. Being asked
| the reason, he replied: "The French dress
| themselves so many different ways and
| change their fashions so often, that, what
ever dress 1 should put on him, in short
| time he would not be known; having the
| stuff, he may cut it to his liking"
Real Yankee wit is about as good as the
| staple article in any other country. We are
| a people who look forward and not back
ward, and take more delight in what we
have made ourselves than in what cur grand
| fathers were. When we do gaze into the
past we are apt to follow the course of the
gentleman who said: There amt many
men in the country who could go back two
generations without breaking their necks
over lapstone or an anvil. Now, | have
taken good deal of pains to trace out our
| family line, and the only way could do it
was 20 skip all the mechanics and farmers
| Jest touch lightly on the merchants, lawyers
| aud ministers, but to dwell purity particular