The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-12-26
WIT AND PLEAsANFEY.

Enjoyable autumn leaves-leaves of alb
Sence.
The best press ever made-two loving
arms.
An Irish paper describing a late duel, says
that one Of the combatants was shot through
the ''feshY part of the thigh bone"
A dude gazed intenty at a giraff, for a few
moments, and, turning sadly away sighed
forth: "Oh, il had neck like that, what
a collar IcOuld wear"
Eat onions, siss," is the Boston Posts adj
vice to a young lady who wants to know
how TO avoid having mustach ON her upper
lip.
II there is one time more than another
when a woman should be entirely alone, it
is when 4 full line OF clothes comes down in
the mud.
An that's the pillar of Hercules9n she
said, adjusting her silver spectacies, era
cious. what's the rest Of his bedCl0theS like,
I wonder?1
a country girl, coming from a morning
walk. was told she looked as fresh as a daisy
kissed by the dew. To which she innocently
replied, ~ ou've got my name right-Daisy
but his isn't Dew"
One ought to be careful what he saws even
about the dead. A for lorn widow sitting
by blazing fire sighed, Poor GeOrge How
where he's gone"
An item is going the rounds to the effect
that church members embrace three times as
many women as men. Yes, that is probably
correct. There is not mere than twenty five
per cent. as much fun in embracing men as
women.
YES, said fashionable lady. 81 think
Mary has made a very good match. hear
that her husband Is one of the shrewdest and
and most -uRprineipled lawyers in the pro-
fessiOn, and of course be can afford to crafty
her every wish"
Old gentleman Cooking at a very bob
tailed borse): BLESS mel How short they
have cut his tall Attendant: "His master
is a member OF the Society for the Protection
of Animals sir. In this fashion ne Will not
annoy the poor flies
A scientist saws the reason kissing is so
pleasant is because the teeth, iaw-bones and
lips are full of nerves, and when the ps
meet an electric current is generated. We
had always supposed the reason why kissing
is so pleasant was owing to sort of can't
help-it-neSs. but this is not an expert opin'
ion.
s'Man in search of mis- soul during fifty
thousand years. and how he found it." is
the subject of one of Gerald Masseys lee
lures. The average woman who ever sent a
man to hunt anything will be very skeptical
in regard to Mr. Masseyis statement that he
found, It. even after hunting fifty thousand
years.
Advice to young ladies: You want to know
how to tell whether not he is spoons on
vOu?ASk him to button your glove.I he does
il readily. you may as well look elsewhere;
but if he goes to work with fingers all
thumb" and tug and strain; if he tear out a
bnttOn-bole or two; especially if he scratch
your wrist once or twice, then you may be
sure that you'v got him, and may pull him
in at your leisure.
Saws a scientist: "The reason kissing is so
pleasant it is because the teeth jaw bones.
and lips are full Of nerves, and when the lips
meet, an electric current is generated" That
is 10 say, kiss creates an electric shock
This viii account for the different degrees OF
noise heard on such occasions. If there be a
superabundance of nerves, or rather electric
jty, the report OF the kiss sounds rather dis
tinct and under certain circumstances start
ling. Electricity, however, is not 10 be
fooled with, as 10 IS dangerous and apt TO get
the fooler into trouble. Certainly, kisses are
electric sparks and shocks, as the troubles
they have caused. attest
Committee of solicitation: as Mrs
Smith at hOmeg' Mary Ann lately land
ed: no. ina am" Second lady of com.
mite: How unfortunatei We wanteS to
see her on business. Please tell her 50 when
you hand her these cards" Third ladv:
Have YOU any idea when she will be inG'
Mary Ann who has peen drilled for fOrmali-
ties only: Yes, ma am; she said when she
ran ont on the piazza as how she'd come
right in again as she heard the door shut"
The only occasion upon which railway
trains in the United States are known to at
rain speed of eightY-five miles an hour is
when you sweep in sight of a railway station
with your overcoat only half on and see the
train you want just starting out. Before
you can reach the platform shot from a
Parrot-guD couldn't catch that train. She
may jolt along at twelve miles an hour all
the rest of the day; but for about one minute
as you go charging down the platform. she
makes an easy hundred. Burlington Hawk
eve.