The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-11-25
SOCIAL GOSSIP.

The latest art recreation for young ladies
is engraving on glass.
America has twice as many professional
actors as five years ago.
Ii is now said that Mary Anderson loved
John Mccullough, the dead tragedian.
The latest picturesque phrase for the ordi-
nary hum-drum existence is, Living in the
drab."
There can be no greater mistake than stop
ping TO worry over a mistake already
made.
Julia Ward Howe says manners, unlike
clothes. can be mended best when we have
them on.
Let W. not burthen our remembrances
With heayiness that's gone,
SHAKESPEARE.
Artemus Ward put it thus: "None but the
brave deserve the fair, for none but the
brave can live with them"
Five o'clock teas after the English fashion
are likely TO be popular this winter. They
are convenient and agreeable.
John Ruskins advice to young girls is:
"lou should have the disposition of a nun,
and too much sense to become one"
Professor Agassiz is said to be the wealth.
lest of American Scientists, although his
father had not time to make money"
If the dudes high collar be taken away
from him. fashion should devise some other
means to keep his head from webbing.
True Christianity depends on fact;
Religion is not theory, but act
Another Communist newspaper in York
has failed The proposition that the thrifty
shall divide with the lazy makes slow head
way in this country.
Christmas cards are no longer ''cards, !"
but all sorts of pretty little knIckknacks
and ornaments with a holiday quotation
tackled on somewhere.
Canon Farrar says that the American
people are unstaggering pinks OF sobriety
compared with the English. He bushes for
the gin palaces of his country.
The diary kept by President Grant during
his tour around the world will be published
complete in the North American Review.
1t will be edited by Colonel Fred Grant.
Genuine India shawls are actually used
for portieres in some private mansions. No
wonder so many people have relatives or
friends who reside in Canada all the year
roundl
A cyclone of disapproval has struck the
plaques, and they are disappearing from the
front parlor" with great rapidity. Tney
are the ornaments here today and gone to-
morrow.
Among the rising generation of "swells. /"
the single eyeglass obtains" more than
ever Some magnify, but the great majority
are OF the kind of glass exclusively used for
window panes.
The question old "How doth the busy bee
Improve each shining hour?' Wen hear no
more;
A naturalist has Just announced that she
Works three hours only out OF twenty-four.
George Washington offered himself to five
women before he was accepted. He could
lead armies and govern a nation, but he
didn't comprehend the subtle influence Of
an attonuated sigh.
Evangelist Moody having seen, as he pub
| licly ayers, d church fair advertisement
that man could kiss any girl for % cents, Fl"
1 takes occasion TO denounoe church fairs in
general as an abomination,
Vegetarianism is spreading very rapidly in
London. Ten years ago IL was hard TO find
| an avowed vegetarian, but now more than
| two thousand persons refresh themselves
| daily at vegetable restaurants.
Mr.. Sankey, the reviyalist, finds that his
| most popular hymns are "Jesus of Nazareth
| passeth by" Almost Persuaded Hold
| the Fort, and the "Ninety-and-Nine.n Mr..
Sankey composed the music for the last
| song.
Mr.. Cyrus w. Field announces that the
| Garfield fund--a fund collected, chiefly
| through the effort of Mr.. Field, for the ben
/ fit of President Garfield's widow-has al
ready made profit of twenty-four thous-
| and dollars. ..
| The elephant they went to view
And TO paint with red the town,
And they talked OF the pretty girls they knew
AS they poured the whisky down,
Aud one said gravely to his chum
1T gives me great distress
To think young ladies will chew gum
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