The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-31
TABLE GOSSIP.


4 Jekyll said that the farther be went west
the more convinced be felt that the wise
men di6 not come from the east.
Eiud hearts are the gardens,
Kind thoughts are the roots,
Slind words are the blossoms,
Kind deeds are the fruits
~. Hewson of England says that the
emmon sparrow may have small pox, and
YSnst it may communicate the disease.
The art of being able to MAKE good use of
moderate abilities wins esteem, and often
confers more reputation than real merit.
Professor Youman says: "a stuffed mind
is much like stuffed bird, good to set up in
the museum, of little account for fight"
Childhood is the bough where slumbered
Birds and blossoms many-numbered;
Age that bOugh with SHOWS eneumbered
-Longfellow.
Alcohol was first invented and used to
stain the cheeks of the ladies OF Arabia 96S
wears so. ItInow stains noses and char
zcters.
An old philosopher used to say, Ale
never once regretted having held his tongue,
bat very often he had felt sorry for having
spoken"
Ragged edged note-paper continues to be
-'the thing" in stationery. Neutral tinted
paper. stamped with antique dies, ia also
fashionable.
Miss Sedgwick: Better the chance of
ehipwreck on a voyage of high purpose than
expend life IN padding hitber and thither
on a shallow stream to no purpose at AL.
Dr. Holmes words:
'sTO reach the port of Heaven
We must SAIL sometimes with the wind,
And sometimes az inst 1t:
But must sail, and not Drift"
The favoTite roses for personal use and
home embellisnment are the Marechal Neil,
Jeequemino., Catherine Mermet, Cornelia
Cook La France, Nephetis and Perlss du
Jardin.
There is no country in the world where
Medication is needed more than in India.
IOf the 100 10000 people in the country
only one In 200 receives any kind Of in
struction.
AChristmss present from the Chinese
Minister to Mr.. Frelinghuysen was gilded
kcage of artificial singing birds, which are
! lifesize, with real feathers, and delude many
by their warbling.
Nearly two hundred years ago Louis
XIV. declared he would sweep Protestants
and Protestsntism out of France, and to day q
protestant temple stands on the site of his
chapel q. Versailles.
Ascertain the true destiny of woman; give
her legitimate hopes, and standard within
herself; marriage and all other relations
would by degrees be harmonized with them.
Margaret Fuller ossoli.
A philosopher says: "Iu the economy of
nature nothing ia lost. The inside of an
orange may refresh one man, while the out.
side of the same fruit may serve as q nedi-
am for breaking another mans leg
so, how much Of pain and pleasure,
Gathers round single world
Strange that we seldom notice
What emotions we have stirred.
Yet though years may pass unnozced,
Words once spoken live and burn
Recently imported vases of Dresden china
are in sets Of four, representing the seasons.
placed upon pedestals in corners Of the
room or used separately in front Of the
hearth.
Stric. hygiene, supplemented by the wis
dom Of such physicians, does much for the
girls who will be women in ten years.
School life has not always embodied n.y.
giene nor laugh. them physiology.-Inter-
national Review.
Vanity of vanities: If girl has pretty
teeth she laughs often, if she has & pretty
got q neat hand she's fond of game of
whist; aud if the reverse she dislikes sll
these small affairs.
A young man who undertook to trace his
family back two centuries, struck peni-
tentiary before he had exhausted one CEN
tury, and concluded TO stop. He feared he
: would collide with gallows before reach
ing the objective point.
The rag carpets of our grandmothers are
comiag isto fashion in the shape of large
rags for bedrooms and nurseries How will
our young ladies be able to turn their atten-
ton from the .esthetic Kensington embroid-
cry to this ignoble field of labor?
"Whkt do you do all day long2" an Eng
lish lady asked friend in Cairo harem.
why" she answered, al go and sit on that
divsn yoDder, and then come here and sit
played by some American young "iadies."
"Women," remarks an exchange, "are
the natural instructors of the young" That
is quite true. And the woman who is the
mother of boy is apt to begin her instruc-
tions early. One of the very first things
which be learns FROM her is that there is 20
soft side 10 trunk strsp.
my dear fellow" said the late Lord
chancellor Westbury, one day to ex-Lord
Chief Justice Erie, "why do you not attend
the judicial committee of the privy coun-
cil7" because I am old, deaf and stupid
'sThst is no reason at all" rejoined the
calculated chancellor, 'ior am old. Will
liaEns is deaf, and Colon Say is stupid" yet
we make an admirable court Of appeal.
In kir weather it was Martin Van Bu-
ren's custom to take q ride every morning
until his final illness, sitting erect in his
saddle aDd wearing s8ull cap, under
which his snow-white hair could be seen
One morning, when riding past Ssuyveasns
Falls, he wss hailed by q bare-footed urchin
who shouted out: "Hey, mister, is you the
President Of the United Statesi" / used
TO be, my little NAH" was the prompt reply;
"nhat can do for your" "Ob, nothin'.
sir onlu I thonrht Jimmy Lied 10 me: /