The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-12-26
TABLE GOSSIP.

To philosophize is to doubt-Montaigne.
The cleverest of all devils is opportunity.
Happy love counts lest moments.-Did-
erot.
Censure Is the tax which q man pays to
+ the public for being eminent--Swift.
There are some names-like that of mother
and wife-that are too sacred for Jest.
The old question among ladies of what to
wear is varied with questions of what not.
People add to their troubles by anticipating
them. 1t is good rule never to cross bridge
until you come to it.
We should neve, make enemies for no
other reason, because il is so hard to behave
toward them as We ought.
Who is tberichest individual in the world?
Philadelphia Journal. The man who is
happiest with what he has.
The more self is INDUCED the more it de
mands, and, therefore, of all men the selfish
are the most disconnected.
II count these things to be grandly true,
That noble deed is a step towards God,
Lifting the soul from the common sod
To purer air and a broader view
If you are planning plan which involves
dishonesty you had better chew the cud for
little and think about consequences
1t is against human nature to believe any
people will persist in wrong and cruelty If
they are permitted to enjoy their natural
rights.
Three-fourths of the successful men of the
day owe much of their prosperity to their
wives help. The load OF life is so heavy
that it takes team of two to draw it. The
ship not only wants captain but first
mate.
The opera dresses worn in New York this
season so low in the neck that there is
danger If a woman falls down stairs head
first sic will slide right out of her dress en-
tirely. Some of them wear surcingle over
the shoulder to prevent such catastrophe.
When such fashions are in vogue no person
is safe.
Pickwicks words are always sensible -
"Ven you're a married man, Samivel, you'll
understand good many things as you don't
understand now; bnt vether it's worth while
going through so much to learn so little, as
the charity boy said ven he got to the end of
the alphabet. is matter o taste. ! rayther
think it isn't
Ii is announced by an exchange that the
Unitarian Church of Chiffon, Mass, has de-
cided to use water instead of wine at the
communion table" While this may be in
strict accord to the principles of temperance
it don't seem at all scriptural. IL they had
turned the water into the wine it would
seem more in harmony with the teachings OF
scripture
What Warrior calls 1.-The fine pointed Eng
lish epigram" was written by Sir Thomas
More, whose works were collected and print
ed in 1857. 1t is on an old subject, Adam be-
ing the only man who never had any need
to mediate upon it, and it shows that mat
rimony in the sixteenth century was almost
as dangerous an experiment as it is in the
nineteenth.
To hear some men talk makes you feel as
though "A pail of dirty water had been thrown
over you. They don't believe in virtue be-
cause they have had no personal experience
with that quality of character and they are
lust conceded enough to believe that what
they have not no other man can possibly
possess. Self esteem and lampblack were
mixed in equal proportions when they were
made.
student at his books so plast Tearnestl
That wealth he might have won.
From book 10 wife did fleet in haste,
From wealth 70 woe didrun.
Now, who hath played a feater cast
since juggling first begun?
In knitting OF himself so fast
Himself he bath undene.
There is sound reason why there are
bones in our meat and stones in our land. A
world where everything was easy would be q
nursery for babies, but not at all nit place
for men. Celery is not sweet until it has felt
a frost, and men don't come 70 their perlec
ton till disappointment has dropped a half
hundred weight or two on their toes. Who
would know good horses if there were no
heavy loads
A gentleman has just died at an advanced
age who never went TO theatre, was igno-
rant of the taste of liquor Of any kind. never
having taken any more alcoholic stimulus
| than is contained in a teaspoonful of pare
goric; never smoked the fragrant Havana or
its cheaper substitutes. and, in spite of all,
lived an honest and upright life. That he
had vices is as true as that there is a great
| deal of human nature in mankind, as Mrs.
| Darlington sagely observed. but what those
vices were not even his most intimate friends
could find out
The January Popular Science Monthly will
have an article from Herbert Spencer on
THE Past and Future of Religion" His
| point of view is that religion has been deysl-
| oped in past times, and is to be still further
| evolved in the coming ages. and his problem
| has been to find the fundamental law of this
| progress This is stated with great clearness
and power in the forthcoming paper, which
will probably be claimed as the final scien-
tific position Oh the subject The ground