The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-17
TABLE GOSSIP.


TABLE GOSSIP.
Victoria still clings to hoopskirts-
St. Louis has an Old Maids Union.
Moon psrAsols are being revived in Paris.
Daghesian rugs are used for covering
lounges.
Love that from pity IS not exempt
After marriage Oft turns to contempt
TIE purse of the fashionable swell is gen.
orally as empty as his head.
By the very constitution OF our nature,
moral evil is its own curse.-Chalners.
No one can avoid his own company, so
he had better make it as good as be possibly
caR.
Lord ErslSine said, on hearing of some
man who died immensely rich: "a fine
sum to begin the other world with"
1t is not so much work as worry that up
sets mans brain. The thing to do is to
avoid fretting and Tuning over trihes-
.tHe prsyeth best who loveth best
AllthiugS both great and small.
For the dear God. who loveth US,
He made aud loveth all
When there is love in the heart, there
are rsinbows in the eyes, which cover every
blsck cloud with gorgeous hues.-Beecher.
A little cold weather, quicker than any,
thing else will whOop up "a prodigsl son,
and send him kiting hume to his fathers
mansion.
Surely one Of tho best rules in converse
ton is never to say thing which any OF
the company can reasonably wish We had
rather left unssid IS Witt.
When man gets down so low, while
sinoino hass that ne ia frequently
found in the cutters, it is high time for
him to let up on stirring melodies.
There was true sense Of the delight of
intimacy in the girl who declared that she
mover loved her lover so well as when she
told him how many pairs of stockings she
had got.
A New York Central Railroad engineer
will not take train out on sny day that q
white cat has run across his path. He hiss
tried it three or four times and has always
met with accidents.
We hear a great deal of scientific lectures
nowadays. This is the sort of thing we may
expect to hear when young ladies return
from a pleasant lecture, with dissolving
views on prehistoric men and the glacial
epoch:
The views too, weren't they lovely7
Especially Mont Ba C and the Alps:
Those men with the clubs AID scalps-
Well may BE- they didn't have soaps
They fIightened me all the same;
And that animal wasn't IL borrldl
The-what did hesay-wss his-Lamea
There have been many definitions of s
gentleman, but the pretiiest and most pa
thetic is that given by young lady; who
says: "a gentleman is 3 human beipg com
bining a woman's tenderness with man.
courage"
Custer County, Montana, is the lsrges
county in the United States. Its area il
$4,000 square miles. 1t is larger than tn
States of Vermont, New Hampshire, Mas
sachusetts, Delaware, and Rhode Island, 81
combined.
A lady wi he'd TO have her husbands lif
insured In q Boston office the other day
giving as a reason that she wanted either
husband or come money, "she didn't car
which," She never expected both at tn
same time.
Mrs Margaret Preston, the Southern
authorizes, q sister of Mrs. Stonewall Jack
son, has a large picture upon her psrlo
walls made entirely of spiders webs, which
q. short distance, is wholly undistinguish
able from steel engraving.
When the religious census Of Victoris
Australia. was being taken. ii 600 men ROC
istered themselves as "pagsns," while one
more philosophic, but not more truthful, dc
clared that there we're only three things i
which ne had implicit faith, viz, IT, s., d.
Celia Logan says that people on the stag
are men and women with the same fault
and fsilings and the same good qualities
those that gather within the portals {
sChurch, snd should be judged by precise
ly the same standard, and with as niue
charitable judgment.
One of the graceful acts of the wife I
the retiring Governor of New York was
have the Governors mansion thorough
prepared for the new occupant. 1t ought
persuade Governor Cleveland, old bschel'
as he is, that good wife is the grsndest q
QUESTION q man can secure mere below.
An old writer Gays. 81 have seen womt
30 delicate that they were afraid to ride, Il
fear OF the horse running away afraid
10 sail, for fear the beat might be urse
afraid to walk, for fear they might fall; b
have never seen one afraid to be marie
which is far more riskful than all the othe
put together"
Miss Rowe, of Boston, has written pli
for seven girls. The scene opens with q
girls talking separately. In the second q
they are all talking a. once. In the thi
act the talk IL continued and In the four
act there is grand climax. A serva
comes in with the information that there
man at the gate, and all rush up stairs
fix up. while the curtain falls to slow mus
-Pnilsdelphia News.
The old French banker, Pont, was BY
means lacking in presence of mind, as is
dictated by The following snecdOte: On
in crowded church, be ieltsome one bru
against him and then missed his watt