The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-25
SOCIAL GOSSIP.

All dinner dresses, as a rule, are being cut
square.
Men often make up in wrath what they
lack in reason.
The Spartsns have become q race OF liars,
beggars and thieves.
Perseverance wins. All possible things
were once impossible.
Red hair is considered the most beautiful
in Turkey. Turkey red?)
There are no old maids in Boston. They
call themselves "bachelettes "
One little trouble. like an only son, will
soon rule the man who nurses il.
Socks with open-worked heels and toes
will be worn by bachelors as heretofore.
1t is said that ruby colored laces, ribbons
and gloves Will soon make their appear
ance.
Flowers the sweetest things that God ever
made and forgot to put soul into.-H.
w. Beecher.
At the ball the girl of to day says: "Yes,
papa, m ready TO go. Let me dance one
minute lop ger.
Old records saw that thimbles were first
worn on the thumbs. Ii rumor be true the
practice is still common ia bachelors apart
men1.
When man offers to ''let you into a good
thing it is the safest as we'll as the most
generous course, to let him have his good
things to himself.
Professor Agassiz, when offered big sum
to deliver q course OF popular lectures, re.
piled: ~ can not afford to waste my time
in making money"
The President never visits foreign minis.
tiers ut the Office of their legations, Because in
80 doing he would theoretically be going out
of the Unl,ed States.
Professor Huxley now gives scientific sane
tion to what Gil users OF the weed have long
known. that tobacco Ia q sweetener and
equalizer of the temper"
The scientists are busy discussing the the
DRY of Professor Bell, that deaf variety of
the human race may be formed by the inter
mariage of deaf mutes.
1t is distinctive mark of commences to
buy things which can not be afforded and to
vainly attempt to dress up to standard ut
terly inconsistent and absurd.
Recently in Paris, during the session OF
the Congress of Free Thinkers, one eminent
member passionately exclaimed: Gentle
men, am an atheist, thanh God!"-Ex.
The English idea that gas is vulgar has &C
coTdingly found q home In New York, and
it may be regarded as an accomplished fact
that IT is. for social purposes, on the wane.
Nine. Patti wrote in Boston Album the
other day: go to strangers for charity, &C
qnaintances for advice, and to relatives for
nothing, and you will always have q supply.
French artists now include brunettes
among their angels, and the time is not far
distant when the red heads will also be rep
resented as winging their way among the
clouds.
Gentlemen of fashion now sport from
three to seven finger rings in addition
to the gold and silver bangles so fire.
quently worn by them. This is very clearly
usurping women's rights.
The records of life.-The records OF life
run thus Man creeps into chill dhood-
bounds into youtb-sobers into manhood
softens into age-totters into second child.
hood, and stumbles into the cradle prepared
for him.l
He that runs may read" is often supposed
to be quotation from the Bible. The words
reslly are "he may run that readeth," and
it is not certain that the sense conveyed by
the popular misquotation is cerrect.-Mac
millan's Magazine.
An ingenious reply of a clever woman:
She was speaking in defense of an absent
friend. "Ah, Madame" said one, you
speak well of him because he is your friend"
"Not at all" she answered. He is my
friend because l can speak we'll of him."
The American Society for Pscychical Re
search has been organized, and one of it's
Iuolu PURPOSES - 10 cuQedNOl W 6SCcItdlu
whether or not there is q transfer of thought,
or mental images, from one person to an
ether, without speech or signs.
The wisest and hsppiest man, is he, who
by constant attention of thought, discovers
the greatest opportunity of doing good, aud
with ardent and animated resolution, breaks
through every opposition that he may i'm.
prove these ortunities.-Doddridge
Joaquin Miller writes that he has found
in New Orleans the noblest woman he ever
saw and he pr ofesses to have 'seen the world
WELL" She was born to wealth, received q
careful education, travelled extensively in
Europe, and at length became poor. She
now keeps little shoe store and works with
her father and sister at making the stock.
The grass is sweet and dewy
Where the shadows longest lay;
An isle OF dreams Ii eeemeth
In the blazing sea OF day.
So the heart Is tender, wooing
Where the sorrows oftenest fall:
In this glad bright world. its darkness
is the hesvenliest thing OF all.
Judge Tourgee, in turning over his latest
book, IAN Appeal to Cesar" to his maga-
zipa cYoditorn ronnrkad that hof~aou ndif