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

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CANT in religion is the implement of the
hypocrite. Cant in politics is the shibboleth
of the sneak.-Brooklyn Eagle.
PROFESSOR MARSH, of Yale College, de-
clares that the brains of some animals now
extinct were large, whereupon the Chicago
Tribune remarks: ''The same thing was
observed in some American statesmen-now
extinct"
If a man analyze the character of his 500
friends he will be dumbfounded at the
amount of treachery he discovers. Yet if
he will analyze his own character he will
surely find five hundredth part of all this
shortcoming.-Chi Current.
COMMISSIONER ATKINS has decided that the
Indian traders are a bad lot, and must all
give place to new men. 1t may take as much
as three weeks for the new men TO become
as expert as the old in the business of swim
ding the Indians.-St. Louis Post-Dlspatch.
THE letter OF Depew turns the minds of
men back to Andrew Johnson. The man is
dead and it is well to keep in mind two po-
tent facts in remembering him. In his
splendid things. At the last a great in
trinity overmastered him, and he did many
foolish thlngs.-Salt Lake Tribune, Octo-
Der %.
THE very desire to better the condition of
mankind is ennobllng. The man who is not
Influenced by it is a groyeler, and unworthy
Ofconfidence. The enthusiasm of humani-
ty" has done wonders. 1t has made mis-
sionary enterprise successful; it has widened
the bounds Of freedom and greatly added to
the sum of human happiness. 1t has other
triumphs in store greater, it may be, than
have yet been won.-Edinburgh Scotsman.
IF the Sunday paper be hostile to the
church, or to this day Of rest, it ought to go.
But it would seem that such a union be-
tween pulpit and paper might be formed as
would make the idea of Sunday as day of
rest stronger than ever before. A war on the
morals of the paper would be better than a
war on the paper, because many of the pop
ular sermons of to-day are themselves enter
tanning rather than Chicago
Current.
THE Medical Record, referring to the
plague-engendering condition of Naples,
takes the ground that when cities or coun-
tries persist in endangering their neighbors
by their neglect of sanitary conditions"
''they should be taken in hand and forced
to clean themselves" "That would be
something much more worth fighting
about" adds the editor, ethan the posses
sion of a few islands in the Pacific, or q
strip of land on the coast of Africa
The American who comes to Mexico is re-
sponsible for hisbehavior, not only to him.
self, but to the American people. can not
blame the Mexicans for having a general
idea of the United States as a country peo-
pied by rough, discourteous, aggressive
and rather INSCRIPTIONS class of humanity.
A gentleman. once Minister of the United
States here, said very truly that almost every
American arriving here seemed to be waving
an invisible American flag and defyiRg the
sentiment of the couRtry.-Correspondence
of Boston Herald.
CANON FARRAR in his lecture on Robert
Browning assigns the poet high rank. He
says: Browning gives us not book but a
literature, and to have read and understood
him is an education in itself. There is no
poet except Shakespeare-ne poet living or
dead-in whom you will find such mar
Yelous array of characters. He draws his
characters from the East and the West;
from history, imaginative legend and fancy;
from Greece, Italy, Palestine, France, En-
gland, America, Russia, Bagdad; from Kings,
peasants, revolutionary leaders, factory girls,
mystic dreamers, gay cavaliers, gallant SOL
diers, gypsies, deryishes, Jews-noble and
base; from musicians, poets, painters, saints,
heroes, reformers, heretics, villains; from
every passion of man-noble or debasing-
which can live; from every love, requited or
unrequited; from doubt, ambition, jealousy,
averice, atheism, and barbarism; from all the
virtues, hopes, and fears of man, of time,
and of eternity, he takes all his colors for the
scenery and figures in his dramas"
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