The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-12-19
TABLE GOSSIP.

TABLE GOSSIP.
If YOU have dined with contentment You
have dined as we'll as the Lord Mayor of
London.
Leisure is sweet to those who have earned
it, but burdensome to those who get it for
nothing.
All the whetting in the world can never
set razors edge on that which hath no
steel in il.
Silence is the safest response for all con-
tradictioHs arising from impertineDce, vul-
garity, or envy.
Debt" remarks Josh Billings sis a trap
which a man sets and bats himself and then
deliberately gets into"
Every man has three characters: that
which he exhibits, that which he has, and
that which he thinks he has.
The man who deliberately goes into temp
tation is like one who holds n candle that
the devil may find him more easily.
Homeopathy is said to resemble the con.
ditions of sale of land; quarter down,
and the balance in one, two and three years.
II is the narrow-minded people as with
narrow-necked bottles, the less thev have in
the more noise they make in pouring it out.
Pope.
Two farmers had dispute about the
boundary-lines of their farms. The dispute
is now settled, and so are the lawyers-on
their farms.
In Scotland promise of marriage must
be in legal form, reduced to writing. With
out this, an action for breach of promise
wi ii not lie.
In the temple of fame, it is said, there is a
niche for every honest man; but the truth
cOmpels us to add that in that same temple
there are great many inches to let.
The Russian proverb ''Never take the
crooked path while you can see straight
one" seems to be rather poor one. Sup
pose the crooked path leads where you want
to go, and the straight one dosent?
No artist ever received a better compliment
than this: Some one was looking at his pic
ture of a man playing a lutte. He examined
il with great care and then said, We'll,
when / look at that painting think myself
deaf"
After that lecture Oh Emerson, in which
he declared that the sage of Concord was not
poet nor a philosopher, Mr.. Matthew Ar
mold may count on the Bostonians swallow
ing whole whatever he may say. They took
i'm his depreciation of Emerson without even
making any faces. Wonderful people, those
Bostonians.
A boy who is put to bedn at night, who
is walked up every morning, and never
wakes himself mp, and is dressed and never
makes mistakes in dressing himself; and is
washed, and never makes mistakes about be-
ing clean; and is fed, and never has anything
to do with his food; and lis
watched and never watches himself. and
is cared for and kept all day from doing
wrong-such a child might as we'll be a tai
low candle, perfectly straight and solid and
comedy and unvital, and good Tor nothing
but to be burned M.
Twenty five years ago this country had
very few extravagantly rich men and very
few able bodied vagrants. Now we are over
run with nabobs and tramps Both are the
creation OF our political administration.
Both are evil growths. There are two
things" raid Socrates which the maSis-
trates OF Athens will be careful to keep out
of our city opulence and poverty. Opu-
lence because il engenders effeminacy;
poverty, because it produces baseness; both,
because thew lead TO revolution"
There is aid TO be somew here in the Far
West preacher whose chief business Is TO
make congregations satisfied with their min
listers. His modus operandi is very simple.
He occupies pulpit where the people have
come TO the conclusion that their pastor has
Outlived his usefulness, and are beginning TO
throw out grave hints that a change OF climate
| is absolutely necessary for him, and his
preaching is so outrageOusly poor, so exas
peratingly bad, that when the pastorresumes
his duties he seems TO be as eloquent as
Bossuet in comparison, and at the next an
nual meeting he is unanimously engaged for
another year. The experiment has never
been tried in this city because il is novel
| idea, and we want to see how it works in the
country first.
Ministers-some ministers. at least
| TO think that they can increase their popu-
| larity by advertising odd subjects to be dis
cussed. "How Jonah Felt When the Whale
Swallowed Him." gives an eccentric preach
| er ample room for the display of vivid inn
| agination; but. How the Whale Felt When
| He Swallowed Jonah is rather more diff
| cult subject to treat. One is all ashore
when he has drawn the logical deduction
| that the whale was thoroughly uncomfOrta
BILE or he never would have rushed to the
beach and disposed of the undgested and
iDdigestable prephet but after that nothing
more seems to be said. What Woman
| Will Do When She Gets Mad'' IS certainly
an edifying topic, and Ii the clergyman is a
married man he may be able to speak from
many painful experiences; but most of Us
know all about il without being told. This
| trick of drawing crowds was not entirely an
known to our fathers. An illiterate fellow,
| who left the business of fishing for the pull
pit, once read the passage about the "austere