The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15
SOCIAL GOSSIP.

1t is paradoxicaI but true that common
sense Is not common.
What you don't know about men often.
| times makes them Respectable.
A Japense proverb reals: A lounge three
inches long can kill man six feet high.
There are seventy-egat womsn studying
medicine ct Paris. thir eee1 OF whom are Par
isians. ~ ~
The one serious objection TO plstynic a.
lection is that it is quite too apt to result ia
plutonic affection.
The youth who woos and wins girl at
/ the rink wilt find it bat few steps from
roller skates TO the rolling pin.
Young man, never call another liar il
/ be is not. 1t is unjust to apply the term to
him, and ii be is he knows 1t himself
No man has ever lived a right life who has
not been chastened by q woman's love,
strengthened oy her courage and guided by
her Observation-Disclosures.
Many physicians assert that the secret of
| long life after three score years aud ten is to
keep warm" The secret of = successful life
before that is to keep COOL"
a fashion newspaper records that the most
fashionable evening costume is a Bracelet OF
vi0lets worn above the elbow. IL is GER
| tanly costume for sn Eve.-Bost0n Tan
script.
A new story is entitled: "A Paying Flirta-
tioD." Most Young men who have reckoned
up flowers opera tickets. Carriages, etc, etc,
will acknowledge that most all hirtations
are paying.
| A writer in the Popular Science Monthly
dissgrees with Darwin in the view that love
| is the sole incentive for the bird TO sing, and
! points out the fact that nearly al singing
| bT6s MARBLE es much after az before the
pairing season
| A Staten Island widow who has changed
her pane three times @rote to young lady
| friend: Never marry man with q NOUS
tsche If you do he'll think more of the hor-
lid thing than OF you.'
story is going the rounds of the press
that Lsboucbere having asked his friend
| Bret Hsrte 10 write poem for his paper.
| HaIte. disguised as a tramp, tried vainly to
seli the poem TO Lab0uchere, who would not
have it at any price.
WASHINGTON prides its elf on being the fsv-
orite resort OF married people during the
honeymoon. and Chicago, net TO be bshind.
hand, boasts of its divorce business. Thus
these two cities may be described as the Al
| pha and Omega OF married bliss
There is one advantage in the tailor ma lie
suit-if the wearer does not eat vast quanti-
ties Of oatmeal and drink quarts upon quarts
| the tailor-made suit will convey the impress
sion that she does This is where art aud
the tailor made suit go hand in hand
George Eliot's 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 lone OF our
most eminent noveiists'' in the Edinburgh.
A good story is in circulation about Mr.
Moody IN Milwaukee,. He was asked in the
convention whether he ad grace enough to
die at the stake. He replied: mo, | don't
Iced it; all l want Is grace enough 10 help
tins Convention for three days in Mil
waukee."
The archbishop of Canterbury said, in a
| recent address, that, while scientists we're
| great sticklers 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-
esy only what they had found out
Ladies' dresses no longer shoot up at the
| shoulders like ears of q rabbit.
Hand in hand with angels.
| Through 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 Larcom.
The bridesmaids of Lori Aucklaud's
daughter, Hon. Dalcilbella Eden. recently
married, wore Gainsborough dresses of soft
white silk, with poiated bodices and fchus
or the same, large caps, yellow shoes aud
stockings. and bouquets OF yellow chrysan-
tbemums. The two little pages ,hesbride's
| balf-pr0thers, wore Gainsbor0ugh costumes
of oream-colored serge, three cornered white
hats, and cloaks lined with yollow silk.
That was chivalrous idea advanced by a
speaker in Boston womans suffrage meet
ing-that women sheuld receive no wages,
because men were created 10 take care of
the women" out an opponent retorted that
= = - l~An 1rrl1 rll1 a.
good many thousand men In Massachusetts,
not to m snti N the wives aud daughters. If
wages earning by women should suddenly
cease.
The North Carolina Christian Advocate
has its opinion of the uDgodly wretches who
dance ''If men will dance" it says. I'VE do
not claim the right to prevent 1T, but we do
ception to dancing club in such way as
to keep off number OF good people who.
otherwise, woald have been glad to do honor
to the new governor.
Science destroys some OF the most cher.
ished popular delusions. Catgut is derived
from sheep; German SILVER was not invented
In Germany and it contains no silver; Cleo
patra's needle was not erected by her. nor
in her honor; Pompey's pillar had no his
torical connection with that parsonage:
sealing wax does not contain particle of
wax; the tuberose is not rose bat poly.
anth the strawberry is not berry; Turkish
baths did not originate in Turkey, and are
not baths at all; whaebone is not bone, aud
contains not any of its proportions
Swiss surgeon has invented novel and
alleged painless mode of extracting teeth. A
thick square of soft rubber, perforated in the
center, is pushed over the offending tooth
until the upper part of the root is we'll en-
veloped. The contraction OF the rubber ex
ercises a steady and persistent but nearly
painless pressure, grad uaily sun dering the
nerve and vessels, and lifting the tooth from
its bed without troublesome hemorr hag &c.
The process requires four or i've days, pat is
not accompanied by any serious liability to
Inflammation.
Negro PhiIosophy.