The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-11-11
SOCIAL GOSSIP.
viclsburg, Oct. lsS5.
Appearances deceive,
And this one maxim is a standing rule
Men are not what they seem.

Men dIe nol Wndl theN seelh
--Scanderbeg.
\ polite philosopher once thanked lady
who had been singing TO party for an hour,
by saying, Madam, you have wasted our
time charmiDgly."
English fashion now dictates that the
stationery of woman of the beau monde
shall have the address in one corner and the
initials in the other.
A thoughtful mind can find fodder for
much rumination in the announcement that
seventy-two per cent of the bald-headed men
in this country are married.
Now when one knows nothing one expects
a great deal, which accounts for the buoyan-
cv of human youth and the high spirits of
the infant pig.-Walter Besant.
Talking of the decline of modern Athens
in literary productiveness, candid Bostoni-
an says: a dollargrabbingg generation can't
produce great poets; it is too earthly"
a medical authority says plural births
occur most frequently in Russia, and when
they do occur in this country the parents are
generally found to he of Russian birth or
descent.
When was young man | was always iE
a hurry To hold the big end of the log and
do all the lifting. Now am older ! seize
the small end and 10 all the grunting.-Josh
Billings.
London Truth announces that the Prince
of Wales is Colonel over forty English regi-
ments and the statement is creating dark
superstition that he has kentucky blood in
his yeins,-LiIe.
An old saw has it that neither the nibbier
nor the glutton knoweth The value of the
feast: motto suitable for brides in hotels,
and men whose attendance At public ban
quets is infrequent
4 Connecticut genius has invented bon
net for men, which he thinks will do away
with all other kinds of headgear for the male
part of humanity. 1t is cross between
kossuth hat and Scotch cap only much
higher and more fantastic than either.
A French servant asserts that the sponge
has nerves and is consequently sensitive to
feeling. He may be right with respect to the
sponge OF commerce, but the social sponge,
though not lacking in nerve, is not open
to the charge of sensitiveuess.-Boston Ga
Zette
Gothic would be impressed by the number
OF things he did not know about Faust" if
he were TO hear the papers at Concord. says
an exchange But then, how little did
Shakespeare realize what sublime symbolism
he meant by the BLACKBOARD jokes his char
acters got off
A Judge was called on in China recently
to decide between two mothers as to whom
belonged an infant. He drew a chalk ring
on the ground, placed the baby in the centre
and told the mothers whoever dragged il out
must be the owner. One, from affection,
declined to pull at the child and was awarded
it.
Here is Canon Farrar's opinion of Ameri-
can audiences: "Some one has spoken of the
appalling silence of American audiences,
and that strikes me as their most remarka-
bile Characteristic. The stiffness is absolute,
and the attention of the audience is perfect,
but they are exceedingly undemonstrative-
much more so than English audiences"
An eminent American physician, DIR. Cons
tantine Herring, said of cholera "The surest
preventive is sulphur. Put half a teaspoon
full of flower of sulphur into each of your
stockings and 90 about your business.
Never 20 out with an empty stomach: eat
no fresh bread nor sour food. This is not
only preventive in cholera but also i'm
many other epidemic diseases"
The origin of the phrase That's feather
in your cap is thus explained Among bar
barians il i the custom to add new feather
to the headgear for every enemy slain. The
Caffirs of Cabul stick feather IN their tur
ban whenever they kill Mussulman. In
Scotland the sportsman wears feather in
his cap-a feather from the first woOdcOck
shot by him. The phrase belongs to no
writer