The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-06-17
SOCIAL GOSSIP.
The Dark.

The Dark.
Where do the little chickens run
When they are sfrsid7
Into the dark. into the shade;
Under their mothers downy wing,
No longer afraid Of anything.
Dear little girl, dear little boy,
Afraid of the dark,
Bid you goodbye TO the daylight with Joy,
Be glad OF the night, for haIxl
The darkness no danger at all can bring
1t is the shadow Of Gods wing.
Where do the little vIolets creep
In the time of snovY
Into the dark, 10 rest aud sleep,
and to wait for the spring they go;
Under the ground where no storm can reach,
And God takes tender care of each.
lam king when I rule mysen.-Stoic
proEtrb.
Batter go round about than to fall into
the ditch.
Branches of Scotch thistles look pretty on
some bonnets.
Fame never made Us lie down contentedly
on deathbed.-Pope.
Virtue is a kind of good health, beauty,
and good habit OF the soul.
Obloquy is a necessary ingredient in the
composition OF all true glory.-Burke.
The two powers which constitute a wise
man are those of bearing and forbearing.
It took fifty years to bring the King James
translation OF the Bible into general use.
To fret about little trouble
Only makes the trouble double.
One of the West Point cadets has 40 pairs
Of white tIowsers. That is his education.
Francis Murphy says that marriages are
made in heaven and dissolved in alcohol.
Drab white-rometbing like a tramD's
shirts one of the fashionable colors this
year.
He that ascendes ladder must take the
lowest round. All who are above were once
below.
No cord or cable can draw 50 forcibly or
bind SO fast as love can do with single
thread.
Victor Hugo's definition Of paradise is
pretty ga place where parents will always
be youpg and children always little"
josh Billings: There is numerous indi-
vidu4ls in the land who look upon what they
hain't got az the only thing worth having.
Our life, fame pierces longer at the other end,
And books it farther DaeKgard dotn extend.
Sir Thomas Oldbury.
In Chicago the majority of the Law report
ers are women. There are forty employed
in the City Court House, and they earn from
Sc to SIS 8 eek.
New Workers think il very nice to have
boys assist at weddings as pages. Dressed in
fancy costumes, they form unique feature
Of the ceremony.
The latest style OF hustle is msde OF watch
spring steel wire a 1d may be used for a
colander, q rat trap, a portable lightning
conductor or baseball catcher's mask.
This mundane spL e-s Ia a mighty uncer.
tain sort of plac'. The bitter and sweet 60
hand in hand, and you always strike an up
grade when you are in the biggest hurry.
JoeHowsrd, of pronounced opinion always,
has been ponderiDe on the chief end of man,
and concludes: mo matter what it ought to
be it 10 70 get enough TO eat and place to
sleep"
Referring to the wealth of flowers at
Florence. a correspondent writes thence:
yesterday bought four dozen beautiful
Marshal Mel and other roses for half
fIane."
The Merchant Traveller thinks that II
President Cleveland we're to marry q Re-
publican girl it would give the old line Dam
oclats shock from which they never could
recover.
The poet Whittier once lent volume Of
Plato to one of the neghboring farmers, and
when the book was returned asked, "Well
friend, how did thee llfe my friend Plato?'
"FiTst-rate," said the fErmer; i see he's got
some Of my idees."
''Worn out with shopping they call Il
when Chicago lady has tarried too long IN
the back room Of confectionery store, and
has to De sent home IN one OF the carriages,
with discreet drivers, that are kept within
call by the obliging proprietor.
Every day we discover more reasons why
Adam must have been exceedingly happy.
The last thing that has come up to strength.
en- our belief is the firm conviction that his
wife never asked him why he didn't make
the garden like the man next door.
II is delightful sensation which a new
passion begins to stir up within Us when the
cid one is not entirely departed. Thus at
sunset we tose pleasure in seeing the moon
rise on the opposite side of the heavens snd
rejoice in the double solendor of both lumin.
aries.
The wise and good men who revised the
Bible have done more-they have erected
that which might tear the very roots out OF
the bsst English literature, were it not that
their edict is impoient. Neither Paradise
Lost nor Shakespears's tragedies will be re-
written to transform hell into sheol.
Mrs. Napier Higgins is writing in England
a history OF women in the fifteenth and six
tenth centuries, showing that the decay of
chiyslTy, the rise of the new learning and
the progress Of the Reformation marked an
age in which women was more influential
in politics society and thought than she
had been before or has been since.
A Catholic OplniOa OF Victor Hugo.
Father PheIsn in the Western Waterman.