The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-08-08
TABLE GOSSIP.

only The leaf OF a rosebud
That fell 10 the ball room il00-
Fell from the tinted clusters
OF the big bouquet she wore.
Quickly he stopped aud seized it,
Iris the leaf of rose " said he;
''Tinted with summers bushes
And dearer than gold to me.
Lovely and fragrant petal,
Some sweet su1amer night, who knows
may have chance to tell her
treasured the leaf of the rose"
Butwhen TO his lips he pressed il
he muttered in accents wroth,
"The blamed thing is artificial
And made out OF cotton CLOTH
-SDmerville Journal
Professor Proctor has no doubt that this
earth hss been right here and in its present
condition for $1,000 600 years. Boys, we've
missed q heap of good fshing.-Detroit Free
Press.
See the eternal fitness of things. A silver
dollar Of 1904 was recently sold for Sl04
While the silver dollar of the present day is
worth about rs cents. This is progress.
Oil City Derrick.
A medical journal devotes whole column
TO explaining what causes cold Precipitation
Any one who has gone up a dark alley aud
stepped on dog would be wasting valuable
time reading it.-Worcester Gazette.
The ten plaques of newspaper Office are
bores. poets, cockrosches, typographical Or
rors, exchange hends, book c-nvassers, de
liz quent subscribers, and the man who always
SHOWS how to run the paper better than the
editor does himself
a celebrated circus manager is on the
hunt for a new curiosity for his show. h
i seeking to find young married man who's
wife can cook as we'll as his mother did
rwenty-siX States have been explored thu
far without success.-Boston Globe.
At a wedding in Harlem, N Y, where
he bride Was very dilstory in arriving at
be church, lady remarked, concerning the
flair: "Well, the idea of that women being
ate in getting here when che has been wait
ing twenty-six years for just such chance
If thisl"
he hsd turned and twisted in his seat for
nearly an hour, vainly trying to make an
impression upon the young lady who sat be
1ind him: At last, he asked: I'D 'es this
rain stop at Cicero2" al don't know, SIR
be quickly replied, adding, "but 1 hope so,
# you think of getting Oft there
$50 you are going to Saratoga, Cicely, my
desr2 "Well, am sorry for YOU '.Wny,
ndeedl l. not Saratoga charming place
~
''Ah yes; bitter waters of disappointment. i
vas there last year, and three broken en-
ysge ments was the result-snd still-and
still" "Unmarried7" YES. Don't go to
SsrAtof s."-Hsrtford Post.
An Expensive Wife.-Old gentleman in q
beer garden, near the railroad depot, wait
ng for his wife to arrive on the next train,
complaining to himself: "Here have al
resdy drunk six glasses of Pilsener, and
looking at his watch the train will not be
aere for one hour TO come. This will com
pei nee to drink six more glasses. Its terri
ne. What an expensive wife l have gotP
-FliegeDde Blstier.
The csshier of country bank suddenly
expired. When the President reached the
Institution the next morning be found CON-
mittee of depositors busily engaged overhaul
ng the books. "What are you doing?' he
asked, incensed by the intrusion and resent
ing tie presence of the COMMITTEES as an in
reference with his authority. Don't you
know the cashiers dead2" eyes," returned
the Spokesman, "aDd we're looked through
his accounts to zee whether he died q nstur-
Al DEATH
'.Is your railroad well eluippsdf" Rail.
road PresideDt-"Well equIpped7"
should say it WAS SplendidIy equipped, SIR
splendidly. For instance there sre our fis'
mortgage eevens, and our second mortgage
ixes, ard cur equipment bonds. and oul
lard grant bends, and our comm N s.~ck
| end our preferred stock, and the1 biggest