The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-12
SOCIAL GOSSIP.

The sunshine OF lifs's highway comes from
happy hearts.
Some men are not obliged to to be mean
nature saves them that trouble.
Heaven never gets much nearer to man
than the adjoining county, while the other
place is often in the same township.
The Pail Mall Gazette says that ''of all the
boons whichEngland can confer u pom India.
lady doctors are, probably, the most Aeeded."
The great difference between virtue and
vice is this-for virtue you have q price
to receive; for vice you have a price to
pay.
TIE fool knows nothing of shame. A man
can hold up his head under any circum-
stances when there is nothing in it.-New
Orleans Picsyune.
A professional has been photographed In
$50 different positions. 1t Is said that the
only person who can beat her for variety
of attitudes is boy told to sit still on
chair.
Music is the sound which ones children
make as they romp through the hotel. Noise
is the sound which other peoples children
M AXE under the same circumstances.-Bos-
ton Poet.
The latest style OF engagement ring repre-
sents q square lump of sug ar of chased gold,
with heart beside it. Most girls would
rather have sweetheart spelled with soil
| taire diamond.
The newest shopping or money bags are
| those lined with silk plush in olive green or
cardinal. The old fashioned leather wallet.
| lined with greenbacks of large denomina-
tiops. however, still holds its own.-Boston
| Times.
| Some writer has classed Mohammed as
| civil service reformer. The Koran says: IA
| ruler who appoints any man to an Office
| when there 10 in his dominion another man
better qualified for ii sins against God and
egainst the State"
That which we are we shall reach, not vol
| unfairly, but inv0luntarily. All thoughts
| come into our minds by avenues which are
| never left open, and thoughts 60 out OF our
| minds through avenues which We never vol
| UNFAIRLY opened. Chasacter teaches over our
hesd.-Emerson.
| woman can be as pure q woman and o
| man as true a man on the stage as anywhere
| else, and the many seeming frailties and ir
| regulsrtles of come lives that are SO magni
fed and expatisted upon, no more alter this
fact than isolated cases alter the fact of NOR
atty of the pulpit, the bench, the studio, Or
the family circle.-Henry Irving.
Soft is the breath of the msiden's yes.
| Not the light gossamer stirs with less
But never cable {. at holds so fast,
Through all the battles OF wave aud blast,
AM never an echo Of speech or soug
1
1.-THE latest thing in The rink liz les is tbs
ROLLER SKATING Irritation" The trouble is
that man has to know too many fancy hg
ures in order to make his filtration under
| stood IL is the awkward man however, who
can axe himself understood in moment
He skates toward young lady and immedi
ately falls on his pants, which means II am
mashed"
A charming little lace pin is described in
London newspaper. On slender bar o
GOLD stands the tiniest miniature plump
chicken in brilliants. with small ruby fol-
the visible eve. golden egg, from which
the end O. the pin. and the chicken g4zss al
| it. lost in wondering admiration, IS seen il
the familiar picture.
Helen Of Troy wes over forty when tina
famous elopement took place. Ten year
after, when the fortunes Of war restored he
to MeIelaus. re received her with love snt
gratitude. Cleopatra was past thirty whel
she made the COZ quest Of Antony, and Diam
de Poictiers at thlrty-si and for many year
afterward was considered the m st beautiful
woman at the court of Henry Ii, of Francs
Ninon de pEpcios received declaration o
love on her eightieth birthday.
There are some whose minds have n
guest chamber. They regard hospitality q
sin. They have taken In set OF opinion
| truths, they call them truths they may o
may not be-and they have no room TO
any thing more. The walls OF their inteliec
are built up, brick upon brick, laid IN insol
uble cement; the structure of the scanties
dlmeD sions, is easily finished and ceiie
over, and no power on earth can either tea
it down or enlarge it-A. z. Peabody.
A widows second choice is generally
calculation of pure selhshness. Girls SONS
times marry to pleass their sweetheart
8 widows Jemarry to please themselves. The
Q are even worse jiits than girls, for they hav
learned to know the sort OF men who max
good husbands and in hunting for them us
|. up candidates by the ssrits. In most cas-
!" the embitian of a widow is to find secon
r husband as little like her dear departed {
. possible Social Photographs.
a George Eliot detested Disraeli q write
= though sbe felt him to be unquestionabl
sn able man" All her life long she hel
Emerson in the highest reverence. and ST
tells an amusing story Of Miss Bremer's, no
Carlyle was very angry with the sage OF Coz
cord for not believing in q devil, aud to col
I, vert him took him among ali the horrors
London-the gid shops, etc and finally
The Honss OF Commons, plying him at eve,
e turn with the question: "Do you believe
the devil noo2''
~ The following occurs IN the course OF son
personal gossip in Georee Eliote autobiogr
pby: There was Dickens in the chair-'a po
iticn he fills remarkably well, preserving
" courteous neutrality OF eyebrows and spea
II. ing with c.esrness and decision. His sppes
ance is certainly disappoipung-Do benev
leDce in the face and, think, little in &
head; the anterior lobe not by any mea
:. remarkable. In fact, he is not distinguish
- looking in any way-neither handsome n
:. ugly, neither fat ncr thin, neither tall u
,o | short.
X Tie art of keeping scrap book is a val
er able acquisition. Very few people are m'
y. tsrs OF IT, 1t lie as hard TO persist in IS 1t is
keep diary. Many OF those newspsI
correspondents who have got up a reputatl
for knowing everybodv and everything o.