The Indiana State sentinel., 1883-08-29
TABLE GOSSIP.

A drop of ink may make a million think
Byron.
Woe to him who has trampled on the
dreams of his youth.-Goethe.
Man is the worst tobacco worm. He de-
stroys the wAole crop every year.
Righ. will always be right, and wrong will
never be other than wrong. AS q poet says
The feathered race with pinions skim the air
Not so the mackeral and still less the bear.
Please to remember that in the economy
of life short progress and honest weight are
better than long progress and short weight.
lis folly. indeed, that one should care
The sweets of life to analyle.
To drink ones fiji Of The perfumed air
Is the only way to be truly wise.
Many a man spoils good fortune by grumb-
ling because il is not better. God sends the
corn, but the devil makes s hole in the
eack.
The meanness of this world is helped on
by doing unto others as you think they
would do un to you if they had q chance
Picsyune.
Josh Billings says that Emmy man who
kin swap horses or catch fish, and not lie
about it, iz az piuz az men ever gets to be in
this world"
Well, Dame Nature has fixed things pref
ty nearly right after all, for she has made
laughter and good humor just IS irreslstibly
contsgio Gus as cholera
If you wish to occupy high place in the
estimstion Of the world begin by being
worthy OF it, because the higher the ape
climbs the more lie shows his tail.
There is very little need TO put duty on
matches, because we can make them our
selves. Those which are made in heaven are
very seldom brought to this market.
Five hundred yards of narrow ribbon
which is scarcely more than braid in width
are used on single dress in rosettes, bows
and loops that form q fringe, of which the
whole vest and tablier are made.
Some of the peculisrities of the times are
universally recognized, even by the most or
dinsry mortals. Said plucky little fellow
to huge blusterer:-"I don't care ifyou are
ss big as church debt; you can't scare
me-"
Not long since the hot water cure for
headaches, dyspepsia, etc, was mentioned IN
this column, and now a New York druggist
states that he and others in his line will put
in hot water fountains this fall, as the rage
is now for glass of it in the morning.
Why old maids ara preferable: "Tm glad
Billy had the sense TO marry settled old
maid," said Grandma Winkum, at .he we'd
ding "Gsls is hity-tity and widders is kim
der overiulin' and upeettin'. Old maids 10
kinder thankful and willin' to please
Christian at Work.
Professor Seeley, of Cam bridge, England,
author of "Ecce Homo" has written the ar
ticle on Napoleon for the new velume of the
Encyclopaedia Britannica" In considera-
ton of the Importance of the subject and of
the writer quite unusual amount of space
has been allotted TO the article.
You can not long pass for anything more
than your real value, after all. You may
wear placard saying you are solid gold, but
| men hardly take q second squint at you be-
fore they discover that you are pinchbeck.
The farmer msy shingle and clapboard his
| own barn, but the moment you get the
inside you see that it is the old barn never
| theless.
Could man read Times pages,
Record every scenel
He'd find through Life's stages,
How Oft he had been
Too full OF inventions
To satisfy thought,
To rifle with intentions
That dwindle to naughtl
| Still taxing tomorrow,
Sun washing 70 day,
Whilst angels in sorrow
| Dropped tears on his way
Very few people who cry, "Hip, hip, nur-
rahi" with such gusto know anything about
| the origin of the words. During the times
! of the Crussdes the chivalry OF Europe was
reused to arms by the inAsmmstory appeals
| of Peter the Hermit, who always displayed q
| banner emblazoned with the following let
ters. Fl. E. P, the initials of the Latin words
| Hierosolymo est perdits, or Jerusalem is de-
stroyed. The people who were not acquaint-
ed with Latin pronounced the letters IS q