The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-11-14
TABLE GOSSIP.


TABLE GOSSIP.
Habit, il not resisted, soon becomes a ne
cessity.
! 1t is only the man with pocketfuI of rocks
who can afford to throw stones.
A New York society paper speaks of "fraud-
ulent beauties and alleged actresses"
Most people are perfectly willing to become
good when they get too old to be bad any
| longer
Flies spy out the wounds, bees the flowers.
| good men the merits, common men the
| faults.-Hindu.
Fashion sensibly requires that the modern
parlor shall avoid all appearance of uniform
| ity in its furniture.
! A broken reputaShun liz like broken
vase-it may be mended, but alias shows
WHARF the krak waz.-Josh Billings.
The best receipt in the world for making
| buckwheat cakes is the one which tells the
| poor man how TO get the buckwheat
With humor and kindness a man is more
agreeable in the world than with superior
intellect devoid of gaiety and goodness.
When you see man who does not appre
ciate women. il is very safe TO wager that
they have failed to find anything in him to
| appreciate.
If every man who has soft head should
aesthetically conclude to wear soft hat the
| present style Of stiff felt would go entirely
out of fashion.
Because man sings hymns amt no sign
| he won't fight yer. De mockin' bird sing
nightly, but he whips cherry udder bird in
| de neighborhood.
A great many ministers know when to be-
Gin discourse, but not one in ten knows
| when to leave of. The man who has the
| genius to put his amen in the right place is
/ always popular.
The most charming young woman in the
world, and the one whose charms are always
| appreciated by young gentlemen on the
| point of matrimony, is the one who has
| feeble and wealthy old father.
Lynn clergyman tells young men to
| choose their associates from class higher
| than there own. The better advice would be
to so conduct themselves that there would be
no class higher than their own.
There have been many definitions of a
| gentleman, but the prettiest and most poetic
| is that given by a lady: "a gentleman says
she. sis human being containing woman's
| tenderness and mans courage.
No warmth. no cheerfulness, no healthy ease
| No comfortable feel in any member,
| No shade, no shine. no butterflies. no bees,
No fruit, no flowers no leaves, no birds.
N0'e"i0sf' Tom Hood
| About every woman, young or DID, aspires
| to be stylishly dressed. But tine truly stylish
| woman is always the one who makes
fashion conform to her requirements instead
| of conforming rigidly to the requirements of
| fashion.
"Why regret that summer must 90?
| sweet lies the aftermath left in the sun;
| Out OF childhood, in beauty begun:
| Harvests OF gold can be won
| Only when summer is done"
In ancientt times Diogenes wandered around
with q lantern looking for an honest man,
but didn't find one; and in these degenerated
| days the gas man wanders around with lam
| tern looking for an honest gas-metre with
| pretty much the same success.
"The merely being near to person with
| whom we feel in sympathy is sufficient to
| give the soul a full measure of happiness.
| There is a completeness in thus strictly being
| together which mere words lessen or destroy.
| -Fredrika Bemer. True, but how few we
meet with whom we can enjoy this silent
| communion, which is as much superior to
| any other as our laguage in its present state
is superior to the rude attempts at expression
| OF barbarOus races.
| According to the London Daily News, the
| Princess of Wales has won two military vic
| tories this year-both on the side of common
| sense. She has banished the crinoline in
| spite of Paris She has retained the small
bonnet in fashion still in spite OF Paris.
| If life is not worth living it is not because
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! the sweetest fruits in acid, and the acid will
| driveeout the sweet juices and fill the cells
which they occupied with vinegar. A life is
| not worth living in an environment OF Bit
] terness.
| Better than gold is a thinking mind
| That in the rea ms of books can find
| A treasure surprising Australian ore.
| And live with the great and good Of yore.
| The sage's Lore and the poets lay,
| The glories of empires passed away;
The worlds great dream will thus unfold
And yield pleasure better than gold
! Father Ryan.
And here is another that is too fine to
| keep. subscriber tells us about a sermon
| he heard preached at the funeral of Brother
| Watkins. 1t so happened that Brother Wat
| kins died on the 22d OF February. The elo-
| quent preacher reached his climax thus:
| Raising both hands, aud with voice tremu-
| Ous with emotion, he exclaimed. 80 think.
my brethren, what a wonderful-what a
| wonderful providence! How wisely God
| chose the day for our friends departurel
| How sweet, how glorious the thought that
the same day in the year which gave Wash
| ington to our country, gave Watkins to
heavenm
| 1t is a very remarkable fact that almost
| every rich man is attacked with insanity at
| the very moment when he attempts to make
his will. IL man is in his right mind while
| making a million, never INDUCING in a trade
| without absorbing the spare cash OF the gen.
| tlonaQ he cOlueSCeuuS u lIdue Win, ne ID
| nevertheless attacked by this fatal malady
| when he begins to exercise his judgment in
| the disposition of his property after death
1t is perfectly insane for insanity to attack
| a man when he most needs to be entirely
sane. But il was ever thus from childhOod's
hour and will be so as long as ungrateful
| heirs think they have chance to get anoth-
| er handful of the old mans gold. The courts
| have 4 good time, the lawyers live in clover,
and the quarrelng children are almost re-
duced to the horrid necessity of earning an
honest living. There is only one thing sure,
viz, that the gentleman who leaves US indi-
vidually dispropOrtonate part of his estate
has mind remarkably we'll balanced and a
certain shrewdness Of judgment in the de-
lection of real and solid merit which we will
maintain at the point Of the pen until ink
| ceases to flow.
Divorce? Well, some people make a mis-
take when they come together and they con-
tinue the mistake so long as they remain to-
getber A brute of a man married a
hard-working women eleven years ago and
induced her to steal from the store in which
she was saleswomen for the support of the
family while he INDUCED in the luxury of
lager beer, but never in the lux
ury of work. Every week she gave the
stolen property into his keeping, and the
funds accruing from the sale thereof he ex-
peditiously spent, but not for rent or for
| broad los ha tiraS of that kind of life