The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-07-01
NOTES AND OPINIONS.


PEEHAIs there will he fewer bricks without
straw now that Tourgee and BuddenSick both
have failed.-Phladelphi Times.
GAMBLING has been prohibited in Memphis.
This will give the officials of that city an OPP
portunity to attend churci.-ArkanSaw
Traveller.
A MAN may thoroughly believe in the faitl,
cure for snake Bit but at the same time he
will take the whisky to brace up his faith on.
Palestine (Tex.) News.
SAYS the New Orleans Picayune: while
medical students are being harshly con
dcnned for robbing CRATES, it is forgotten
that the students intend To fill them up again
when they Z" into practice.
AND now comes ST. Louis doctor who
says that roller skating enlarges the size OF
the feet. Oh, my. those poor. dear Chicago
girls-can't they have no fun at all? Its too
bad. too bad.-De Menil. in st. Louis Maya
zine.
Our in Texas Il Spider-legged dude can't be
Judge The court must be Il big, double
listed concern with plenty OF backbone. He
the law, but the physical strength to put
down Il riot.-Atlanta Constitution.
WHEN the majority of the dresses worn
upon the street are of print cloths, and when
print cloths are used Tor sheeting, as they
were fifteen years ago, there will be some
hope oil good times striking the trade with
an old-time boom.-Fall River Herald.
ONE thing i particularly noticeable this
season. When war rtImOrS are rife the wheat
prospects are fair When the white-robed
angel of peace spreads its wings over the con-
tineni the HcSsian fly comes to the front.
Just at present the wheat market i very fly.
-Chicago Tribune.
VIZ fear any sudden and sweeping con
traction in such period of depression
that in which trade now finds itself and for
this reason we have advocated the hest
remedy, not the suspension Of the silver
coinage, but the improvement OF that coin
ase.-The Richmond state.
PERSIAN philosopher being asked by
what method he had acquired 81 much
knowledge answered. by not being pre-
vented by shame from asking questions
when / WAS ignorant" According To this
notion five-year-old boy travelling in the
ears with his mother ought Ia acquire
enough knowledge in journey OF fifteen
miles to split his head wide opcn.-Norris-
town Herald.
IT j. little awkward for ric reviserS.
marks the New York Independent, 10 find
that their statements in the preface to the
Revised Old Testament-"It is well known
cts does not occur in the Bible OF l6l1''-is
not well grounded. A sharp critic has found
the little word in I.eviticus XIV, 5-"Tiat
which groweth OF its own accord, etc. Ii
seems to have escaped the sharp eye of both
Crnden and Young. But how could the re-
visers have overlooked it?
My daughter, when you note that the man
who wants TO marry you IS just too awfully
anxious to learn whether YOU can bake a loaf
of bread or wash shirt with Chinese dexter
ity, before you close the negotiations, do you
Just fiji around and ascertain whether that
man is either willing or able TO earn enough
-four to make biscuit, and If he has paid for
& sc shirt he wants you to wash. Nine times
out of ten, daughter, the man who only wants
to marry n housekeeper can be kept more
economically in the work-houSe than he can
in your fathers houSe--R. ]. Burdette.