The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-09-02
NOTES AND OPINIONS

THE Cincinnati Evening Post has focnd
that hustlipg sometimes beats philosophy.
A YOy-PARTTsAY judiciary is generally a
non-partisan humbug. Judges are partisans
like other men.-Chicago Evening Journal.
UNCLE SANS sixty millions, take 'em by
and large are as well-behaved, as intelligent,
as contented, as any millions the world over.
Chicago Herald.
THE Philadelphia Record isef opinion that
where nature is still unsubdued and labor is
perpetually carving out new paths to indie
pendence. the age of monument-building is
still to come.
WHEN everything seems as if it would last
forever; when the sameness of life, when
there is nothing in the paper" then is the
time to be thankful-for ''no news is good
news. Hawkeye.
FLORENCE MARYAT has a new lecture on
them alone, Florence; that's the way. Let
all women go to Heaven, where they belong,
and leave the earth entirely to the men, who
want it all to themselyes-Lowell Citizen.
! FRENCH comment on the poor laws in Eng
land is that the English in the treatment OF
their poor adopt the views of Herbert Spen-
Ger, that il is best to clear them off as soon
as possible without leaving posterity. lie
Rappel adds: "The country bearing the
banner of fraternity can not initiate this sys-
tenn"
IT will be judicious for us not to knock
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make an anvil out of a can of dynamite;
also to wait till the locomotive of an express
train passes the crossing before driving on
i the track with every seat in the family wagon
occupied by believers in special provi-
dences."-Day Star.
The last words of General Grant were a re-
quest for water. The man who had gathered
all the honors of the earth asked, in his ex-
treme need, for that which ii was the easiest
to give. As the rich and the poor, the glo-
rious and obscure. journey toward the level
ing place of death, they travel for time in
close cOmpany.-Chicago Current.
BAcHELoRs should pay poil-tax because Of
their uselessness They neither set up hearth
stones nor rear soldiers Rarely are they
great in war or council. One of their chief
missions in life seems 10 be to coax into alb
sence from home those Of their eompanions
who, if enjoying less of liberty, of more
service 10 the State.-Chicago Herald.
Nor one sane man or woman in 10000
would make a pet of lion or rattiesna<e.
Yet many young men and women secretly
nourish, not in their houses, but In their
bOsOms, some vicious habit, or temper, or
thought, which one day, when full-grown,
may overcome them and rend their souls
beyond hope of help-Youth's Companion.
THEORIES OF political economy formulated
before the introduction of ocean telegraph
lines which now unite the ends of the world
are obsolete. BY rapid transit and teie-
graphic communication We Of this country
are brought into competition with the whole
worlds inhabitants, and the basis of wages
must conform more and more yearly to that
of the operatives in foreign countries. The
unit of value for one days labor is fixed by
the amount which a man can obtain from
the cheap lands Of our great country.
Labor-saving machinery and foreign immi-
working classes.-Boston Transcript.
FOR two years tho country has been pass
| ing through period of lethargy and bust
ness depression. This condition is period
| ical, and is always succeeded by times of
remarkable activity in all lines of human
effort There are already indications of a
| business revival and of the dawn of another
period of prosperity. Inter-Ocean,
THE Fort Worth Gazette, noting the tenn
perance movement in Texas finds that those
counties devoted mostly to farming have
| voted almost invariably in favor of local
| option, while those in which there are thick
| ly settled communities and diversified indus
| tries have voted almost as regularly in favor
of license, and this rule will he found TO hold
| good i'm nearly every other State.
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