The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-02-18
SOCIAL GOSSIP.

It is paradoxical but true that common
sense is not common.
What you don't know about men often
times makes them respectable.
A Japense proverb reads: A lounge three
inches long can kill man six feet high.
There are seventy-eight women studying
medicine at Paris, thirteen of whom are Par.
isians.
The one serious objection to a platynic az
lection is that it is quite too apt TO result in
a plutonic affection.
The youth who woos and wins a girl at
the rink will find it but a few steps from
roller skates to the rollipg-Din.
Young man, never call another "lisr' il
he is Lot. 1t is IN ust to apply the term to
him, and il he is he knows it himself.
A fashion newspaper records that the most
fashionable evening costume is a bracelet OF
violets worn above the elbow. 1t is GER
tanly costume for an Eve.-Boston Tran
script.
A writer in the Popular Science Monthly
dikagrees with Darwin in the view that love
is the sole incentive for the bird 10 sing, and
points out the fact that nearly all singing
birds MARBLE as much after as before the
pairing season.
A story is going the rounds of the press
that Labouchere having asked his friend
Bret HsTte TO write poem for his paper,
Harte, disguised as tramp. tried vainly to
sell the poem to Lsbouchere, who would not
have it at any price.
There is one advantage in the tailor-made
suit-if the wearer does not eat vast quanti-
ties of oatmeal and drink quarts upon quarts
the tailor-msde suit will convey the impress.
sion that she does. This is where art and
the tailOr-made suit go hand in hand.
George Eliots Life" will be reviewed by
Lord Acton for the Nineteenth Century, by
Frederic Harrison for the Fortnightly, and
John Morley for Macmillian's, and accord
ing to the Anthenoeum, by 'one OF our
most eminent noveiists' in the Edinburgh.
The archbishop of Canterbury said, in a
recent address that, while scientists were
great stcklers for revealed knowledge or
proven facts only, they were forever prophe-
sying the end of the Church. he begged
them, therefore, to be consistent and proph-
esq only Whist they had found out
The bridesmaids of Lori Auckland's
daughter, Hon. Dulcilbella Eden. recently
married, wore GainsboroUgh dresses of soft
white silk, with pointed bodices and fichus
of the same, large caps, yellow shoes and
stockings, and bouquets of yellow chrysan-
themums. The two little pages, theibride's
hslf-orothers, wore Gsinsborough costumes
of cream-colored serge, three cornered white
hats, end cloaks lined with yolioT silk.
Ladies' dresses no longer shoot up at the
shoulders like ears OF rabbit.
Hand ID ksnd with angels.
Though the world we go;
Brighter eyes are on us
Than we blind ones know;
Tenderer voices cheer US
Than we deaf will own;
Never, walking heavenward,
Can we walk alone.
Lucy Lsrcom.
Science destroys some OF the most cher.
ished popular decisions. Catgut is derived
from sheep; German silver was not invented
in Germany and ii contains no silver; Cleo
patra's needle was not erected by her, nor
in her honor; Pompeys pillar had no his
torical connection with that parsonage:
sealing wax does not contain particle OF
wax; the tuberose is not rose but poly
anth: the strawberry Is not berry; Turkish
baths did not originate in Turkey, and are
not baths at all; WhaIebone is not bone, and
contains not any OF its proportions.
A Swiss surgeon has invented novel and
alleged painless mode OF extracting testh. A
thick SQUARE OF soft rubber, perforated in the
center, Is pushed over the offending tooth
until the upper part OF the root Is well en-
veloped. The contraction OF the rubber ex
erclses steady and persistent but nearly
| painless pressure, gradually sundering the
nerve and vessels, and lifting the tooth from
| it's bed without troublesome hemorrhage
The process requires four or five days, but II