The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-03-18
SOCIAL GOSSIP.

e If the sun shines, make the mott OF it; If
it rains, let it rain.
The first morning you forget to be polite
to your wife the honeymoon is over.
he who is most slow in making promise
is the most faithful in the performance of it.
1t is now the fashion to braid the Langtry
Knot OF hair worn low in the nape OF the
neck.
There is no man so great as not to have
some littleness more predominant than all
his greatness.
The right to rebellion is the right to seek a
higher rule, and not to wander in mere law
lessness.-George Eliot.
Three things come not back-the spoken
word, the sped arrow and ths neglected op.
portunity, say the Arabs.
The only comfort the doctrine of "elec-
ton" has is for the benefit Of those who re-
gard themselves as elected, and are sure to be
saved
1t was Sidney Smith who POLITICALLY said
that to see the handwriting of an old frie I'D
was like the PRINT on the sand seen by r d.
insen Crusoe.
An esteemed contemporary says that wo-
mans heart is always open to q smile. There
ere some mems mouths affected in the same
Insnnor, and to greater degree.
Christian Register: jacobs old dream was
not al RDreasonaole one. His angels did
not iy to Heaven; they went patiently up
each round of the ladder, and they began at
the bottom.
Preachers cay, do as say, not as do. But
il physician had the same disease upon
him that have. aud he should bid me do
uns thing and he do quite another, cJald l
be ieve him?-Selden.
''Is your wife acquainted with the dead
languages9" asked the Professor of North
Side man. maybe she is" was the reply,
but the Language she uses Is entirely too
warm to have been dead very long,"
Except in cases OF necessity, which are
rare, leave your friend TO learn unpleasant
truths from bis enemies; they are ready
enough to tell them Good breeding never
iorgets that amour propre is univeral.-
Holmes.
Silk was never cheaper in England than at
present. owing to the heavy shipments from
China, On account OF the threatened war.
Asno war is threatened in Alaska the price
VI seslskln sacques has not been affected
Minneapolis Tribune.
The growing good OF the world is partly de-
pendent on unhistoric acts. and that things
are not so III with you and me as they might
have been, is half owing to the number who
lived faithfully hidden life and rest in IN
visited toInbs.-Gecrge Eliot.
What on earth can that mean asked
Hicks OF Ihackeray, pointing TO an lnscrip-
ton over doorway, Mutual Loan Office"
IL don't know" answered the novelist,
"1nless it means that two men who have
nothing sgTee to lend it to one another.
When Sydney Smith was informed that
his daughters marriage was announced IN
the London papers under the healing of
Fashionable Intelligence" he exclaimed,
| with q merry twinkle in his eye, "How abb
surd Why we pay our 5ills."-Life of
| Sydney Smith.
How little do men know of one another's
lives after all Broker William Hutchinson
did business on Wall street as an old oache.
| lor, and died, and was buried in the sup.
posed ssnctity of single blessedness. But
after his death il was discovered that he had
| lived NJ Red Bank IS q married man under
The name of Austin, and had left widow
| and grown childred there. He willed his es-
| tate Of million dollars to the widow, and
then made second will leaving the bulk Of
| his property to one of his married daughters,