The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-12-12
TABLE GOSSIP.

st. Louis folks chat in church.
A lie has no legs, and can not stand; but
it has wings, and can fly far and wide.
1t is the man who has nothing to be dis
couraged about who is most discouraged.
If you ever promise at all take care, at
least, that it be to nobody that may suffer by
trusting you.
One sparkling girl in a deserted conserva-
tory is worth half dozen prudish old maids
in crowded ball room.
1t is pretty difficult to recover from
fault committed Old Fuller once said,
will be found
If some one should ask you for good def
milton of honesty would You be able to say,
as the countryman said, 81 don't know what
the word means, sir?"
1t is singular fact that all the so-called
English beauties and all the American girls
who are considered beauties in London have
high cheek bones and very pointed chins.
We rise by the things that are under our feet,
By the I pride su6dued and the passion Slain
And the vanquished i'll we daily meet.
1t is we'll enough to be rich, but to parade
your riches is contemplate. A man may
be proud of his horse, but it is not necessary
to ride on a!ridge pole, says the proverb.
Qualities of a too superior order render
man less adapted to society. One does not
60 to market with big lump of gold; one
goes with silver or small change.-Chamfort.
Itwould be better for you If you could be
contented with what you have instead OF
making yourself miserable by wishing for
what you have not. II you look up all day
a chip will sometimes fall into your eye.
Many man who has been a negligent
husband decorates his dead wifes grave with
flowers. But why not take the bouquet home
beforehand? A woman don't always want
to wait till she's dead before she's appre-
ciated
We do not hold to the doctrine that the
government should take care of the rich, and
let the rich take care of the poor, but we be-
lieve in that reciprocity oil interest which
provides for the wants of all by recognizing
the rights of all.
The claim that If women were allowed the
ballot only the best men would be selected
| for Office is proposition which should be
| received with many grains of allowance. If
| their judgment is so infaillible it is strange
| they make so many mistakes in selecting
husbands.
If thou art worn. and hard beset
With sorrows that thou wouldst forget
| II thou wOuldst read a lesson that will keep
Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep,
Go to the woods and hillsl No tears
Dim the sweet look test Nature wears
-Longiellow
A standing Joke in the marriage service is
| the part where the bridegroom saws; with
| all my worldly goods / thee endow." Some
| times he afterwards finds bread and board
| for his wife, and after he dies she gets a
| third of his estate. The endowment is a
| fraud from the start.
| A clever maiden lady once said that it was
| far better TO be laughed at because you were
| not married than not to be able to laugh. be-
cause you were. There is sound logic in
| that. 1t is we'll for women to marry If she
| meets good, true man, who loves her, and
| whom she loves; if not, she had better re.
main single.
But pleasures are like peoples spread.
lou seize the flower. It's bloom Is shed;
Or like the snowfakcs in the river,
moment white then melt fol- ever;
or lii e the borealis race
That hit ere you can point their place;
or like the rainbow's lovely form,
Eyanishing amid the storm. Burns
The world had its childhood, and when il
| was a child IL spoke as a child. il understood
| as a child, il thought as a child and, say
| again, in what it spoke as child. its Ian.
guage was true, in that it believed as n child
| its religion was true. The fault rests with
us, ii we insist on taking the language Of
children for the language of men, If we at
tempt to translate literally ancient into
modern language, oriental into occidental
/ speech, poetry Into prose.-Muller.
| If you wish TO be miserable. says Canon
Kingsley, you must think about yourself
| about what you want. what you like, what
respect people ought to pay to you, what
people think OF You, and then TO you moth.
ing will be pure. You will spoil everything
| you touch. You will make sin and misery
for yourself out Of everything God send:
| you. You will be as wretched as you choose
when the weather is wet,
We must not fret;
When the weather Is cold.
/ We must not scold;
/ when the weather is warm,
We must not storm;
Be thankful together.
| Whatever the weather"
There are lots OF good people in this world
who think gambling an objectionable sin
and who would never, never, never take 8
hand in quiet game OF euchre, or bet 9
cookie on game of checkers, but who SCI
nothing inconsistent in going into an insur
ance Office and betting the insurance com
pany $50 against 5000 that they will moi
die or that their house will not burn dowr
within year.
Could anything in the world be more ir
resistibly droll than the following extrac
from little note written by Dickens TO
friend, who bad been consulting him the
day before about the purchase OF some ole
furniture? There is chair without bot
toni at shop near the Office, which thinl
| would suit YOU IL can not stand OF itself