The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-11-28
TABLE GOSSIP.
Cheerfulness Is a spark from heaven.

good woman charms the heart.
Printers Toast.-''The Press" Il expresses
truth, re.presses errors, im-presses knowl-
edge, op-presses none.
Thare IL pleanty ov pholks in this world
whoze hartes bleed for the poor, but whoze
pocketbooks never do.-Billings.
Don't GO too much on show. The drum
major OF a band. to be sure, is very attract
i've, but he doesn't furnish any of the music.
Most men in our modern days are in the
conditions described by Byron:-
Half dust. half deity, alike unfit
To sink or soar,
Oneof the inconsistencies of human nature
is that a man may be disguised with all the
world and yet consider himself pretty nice
sort of fellow.
cheerful smile, pleasant word,
Which we can always give,
Perchance some dropping soul hath stirred
With strength to love and live.
Soft words may appease an angry man
bitter words never will. Would you throw
extinguish the fire?
The grindstone is the one piece of mechan-
ism in use by all nations, and with all il is
identical in form and principle. Everybody
has some axe to grind.
1t is said that life at an elevation of 10000
feet is impossible. Citizens who are in the
habit of getting elevated every night must
take care not to reach this limit.
Let any man once show the world that he feels
Afraid OF its bark, and twill fly at his heels
Let him fearlessy face il, twill let him alone;
But I will iawn al his feet If he filings IL n bone.
Owen MEREDITH.
A mans mind must be pretty we'll wrapped
when he takes wrong for a right, and he
must also be strangely pregediSt' when he
eats tar on his buckwheat cakes and calls it
molasses.
Martin Luther compared originals sin to the
beard of man. We are shaved to-day and
look clean and have a smoother chin; to-
morrow our beard has grown again, nor does
il cease growing while We remain on EARTH"
All the women smoke in Spain. In Italy
the like habit is general. In Turkey every
woman has her hCokah. narghileh and Chi
bouque. There is less lungdisease in Turkey
than in any other country and the women
retain their teeth longer.
Asa personal ornament the spider has
gone. His popularity was brief briefer
than his legs, which were seen sprawling
over the left shoulder Of many fair dame
and damsel armed for the conquest the last
year
No use talking, the whole world is
mashed" on America. Lord Coleridge says
American women are the most beautiful in
the world" Fred Gebhardt and the rest of
us kAow what Mrs. Langtry thinks of the
men.
Fifty years ago Goethe predicted the build
ing of the Suez canal, and stated that Eng.
land would take possession of it when it was
finished. In one of his novels, Alexander
Dumas predicted the construction OF the
Panama canal.
There is true philosophy in the following
lines:
There's many a trouble
Would break like bubble.
And into the waters OF Dethe depart,
Did we not reberase il,
And tenderly nurse il,
Ana give it a permanent place in the heart
Flattery is the most delightful thing on
earth. 1t is perfect bliss TO be told that you
al e great and good even when your crimes
stare you in the face. There is an old Eng
lish prOverb, None ever gives the lie to him
that praiseth him."
There are more wicked things told about
mothers-in-law than about any other beings
Songs of Singularity," puts the naughty
feeling of universal mankind into verse III
this wise -
He stood on his head on the wild sea shore,
And Joy was tile cause OF the act,
For he felt as ne never felt before
instantly glad, IN TACT.
And why? In that vessel that left the bay
His mOther-in-law had sailed
To a tropical country far away.
Where tigers and snakes prevailed.
4 fact was recently stated by Professor Bell
which is well worth thinking about a second
time. The deaf mutes who have been philan-
thropically cared for come into such relations
with each other, being shut out from the rest
of the world, that they intermarry and are
rapidly producing a class of persons who are
all deaf mutes. We have often wished that
our barber, who prattles in our ear while
playing with the razor, were a deaf mute
there are people in the world who are capa-
bic OF wishing that their wives, who speak to
them frequently of their personal failings
and in tones which imply that they have no
personal tailings themselves, were either
deaf or mute, or both; but it seems a little
curious to deliberately produce a class of this
kind, not for BARRIERS or wives, but tor the
ordinary purpose Of life.
There is certain class OF dreamers who
are always averring that Christianity is
either dying or dead. Such things as facts
never, OF course, enter into their heads
They have emancipated themselves from all
restraint, and, like the fox who lost his tail
and who went round wagging a mere stub
and declaring that tails had gone out OF
fashion, these deluded people think that re-
ligion is dead because they haven't any them
selves. A few figures, however, put the mat
ter on an arithmetical basis from which
there is no appeal. In the United States
there are nearly fifty million persons We
have 1880 churches-more than we ever
had before and they are being built at the
rate Of more than one per day. This gives
a gloomy outlook to atheism and to those ex-
tremely advanced folk who have outgrown
the Bible. We bave 81, III clergymen with
our theological schools well filed with re-
cruits. We have including the Roman
Catholics, IL, 267 ,S7S actual COMMITMENTS of
churches; or. in other words, one person in
four throughout the Union is a member OF
the church, and not simply an attendant
upon its services. Some of our blatant az
nostics will have TO 90 into deep mourning,
indicative of unmitigated sorrow, if this
state of things continues.