The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-06-20
WIZ AND PLEAsAHTRY.

How to start game of foot Oawl Tread
on somebody's corns.-New York World.
Telephone transmitters should be painted
'yeller. Boston Commercial Bulletin.
People should inform themselves about the
tariff. It is every mans duty.-N. o. Pic
syune.
A pessimist claims to have discovered that
women do not marry for love nor for money,
but in the hope of reveling in spring house
cleaning.
ga fair court record" remarked q CO.
quette as she wrote the name of her six
teenth rejected lover in her disry.-BOstOn
Courier.
t'Crowded out to make room for more in
teresting matter, remarked the editor as he
allowed aside plste Of beans and tackled
strawberry short cake.
"Where are the springs of long sgo?"
writes Edith n. Thomas, IN sweetly flowing
verse. Give it up, Edith. Some of them
may be hanging in that old hoopskirt in the
attic.
The death and destruction wrought by
wind at the West induces a correspondent
to ask why they do not grow more pepper
mint out there, which he says is good for
the windp
The latest freak of fashion in New York
is to have the feet photographed. 1t was
tried in Chicago bat given I'D because it was
impossible to get whole foot into focus
Philadelphia News.
'Oh, dearp sighed Mrs. p, with tooth
ache. "Why cant people Do born without
teeth2' "If yo1 will reflect moment, my
dear" replied Mr. p, ''you will be convin-
eed that such is the fact
Mostly out: "Your sin will surely find
or,kfs eafI % ,t~av,
member of his flock. "Well,7 was the thick
reply, "hi guess-hic-she won't be very
hkely-hic-ter find me in."-Anon.
"Wen, said the lady, whose husband
had run away with the school ma'am,
'there's one consolation; / know the in
side facts of this scandal and that's more
than those spiteful old maids across the way
do"
Professor to a young lady student-Your
mark is very low, and you have only Just
passed. Young lsdy-Oh, / am so glad.
Professor, surprised-Why7 Young lady
I do so love a tight squeeze.-College Ex-
change.
School Committeeman, examining scholar:
"Where is the north pole?" 81 don't know,
sir" "Don't know Are you not ashamed
that you don't know where the north pole
is7" "Why, sir, if Sir John Franklin and DIR.
Kane and Capt belong couldn't and it,
how should know where il isl'
How much man is like old shoesl
For instance: Both q soul may lose.
Both have been tanned; both are made tight
BY eobblers; both get left aud right;
Both need mate 10 be complete,
And both are made TO go on feet.
They both need healing; oft are sold;
And both in time turn all to mold.
With shoes the last is first; with men
The first shall be the last; and when
The shoes wear out they're mended new;
ho mo rvoo mt how fror mn load TIM
They both are trod upon. and both
Will tread on others, nothing 10th.
Both have their ties, and both incline
When polished in the world to shine;
And both peg Out-and would you choose
To be man or be IFS shoes?
A lady, Of irreproaehsble ugliness, brings
an action tor divorce against her husband,
upon grounds, which the Judge evidently re-
gsrded as trivial, though he ia IS evidently
unable to make her see the fact. Finally,
says the worthy magistrate: MADAM, then
YOU desire your husband punished2 You
will not forgive him2" 81 do, sirl Never. r-r,
sir-r-rr' every well, then; 1 will deal with
him with the utmost severity possible. Your
petition is refusedI'
Hove to see the fair tattoo
That spreads In every kind of hue
Down from her necklace to her shoe
The green and yellow, red and blue,
The pink and terra Gotta, too,
In vain sigh-in vain rue
She waves me back a cold adieU
And melting from my ravished view
She bid me. pleading, IRA Ia loo,''
This cruel fair,
With speekled hair
This proud and hcartless young Tattoo.
Denver Tribune.