The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-09-03
Miscellaneous.

Detroit census returns foot up 1880
High Words.-Dialogue in a balloon.
"A Fruitful Disappointment.-Sou
grapes.
Pleasant Checks in Life.-Bank
checks.
Wide Awake Hats.-Those without a
nap!
"A good word Is % soon said as an i'll
one.
You can't marry a missif you marry
a widow.
A Bad Policy.-One that has run out,
OF curse.
"A man who drinks drains seldom has
many scruples,
-Singular.--It generally requires a
round sum to make things square.
Great singers are often in debt-they
get into the way of running up high
scores.
"A Java grandee is coming to this
country with his eighty.one children, and
wants to secure board in some quiet
family.
-"Honest industry has brought that
man to the scaffold," said a wag, as he
saw a carpenter upon the staging,
The losses by fire in the United States
last July were more than $5,000,0O0 larger
than in the same month of 1859.
The Washington is as good a compa-
ny as there is in existence for the policy
holder. p. H. MoGBAw, Senator.
"A Troy hod carrier has inherited fifty
thousand dollars. He was half way up a
ladder when he heard of it, and he just
let 20 of the hod and said he'd have to be
excused.
All men need insurance that are Of
value to ANYBODY. insure IN the Wash
ington Life Insurance Company, OF New
York.
-By a curious coincidence i've names
on one page in the Norwich City DIec
tory for 1870 read, Slack Thomas, SLOW
George, Sly John, Small Nathan, ano
Smart Mary.
The New York Express says that one
of the best ways of decreasing crime vii
he 10 destroy the belief so unfortunately
prevalent that it is vulgar to work for {
living.
The Alta California tells the story o
seven aDesert Indians" who ate q larg'
horse in nineteen hours, leaving abso
, lutely nothing but the bones, boots, ant
hair.
A crusty old bachelor says tina
, women's hearts are as brittle as glass, anI
a man who wishes to engrave his nam,
on them must use diamonds, or he vii
= not be successful.
h "A green academy student, being re
4 ouired TO write a composition in his reg
. ,lsr course of study, commenced thus
: at is rather difficult and pretty near i'm
! possible to communicate to othtrs thos
: ideas whereof we ourselves are not pos
sessed."
-Potta watomie City, Kansas, claim
e the largest percentage OF increase yet d.
welcomed under the census of 1870. TIL
nonulation Of "the city" in june, 1855
= consisted Of the proprietor, Josephu
: Eleerood. In the fall Of 1860 he got ma
/ ricd. ana the population of 1.-THE city
now consists of Elsegood, his wife, an
10 eight children-ten In allan increase {
y nine hundred per cent.
"A bachelor on Twenty-seventh stree
e New York, had the blues, and applied d,
= a doctor for some medicine. The doctC
= inuujred into his case and wrote a pr
y ~scfiption In Latin, which the bachelt
TOOK 10 a drug store. Translated, Il
nrescription read, Seventeen yards
y silk. with q woman in it" The bachelI
y proposed to a lady that evening, and WI
Z married in two weeks.
is Having been notified by the officers
80 the Washoe Typographical Union, No. 8
o. that the Union had reduced the price
lie composition to 70 cents per 1000 ems, Il
proprietor Of the Virginia New Eats
To- prise makes this striking announcement
US i We do not recognize the right of OF
90 employees to strike for lower wages, ar
shall probably send East for printers wi
be will agree TO accept such rates above Il
>" typographical schedule as we feel di
be posed to give"
OF Along the Sierra Nevada, close to u
NJ line Of snow, a plant grows Of size var
ss- ing from an inch to two inches In THO
70 ness, and height TO the dimensions Of II
OF largest cabbages II IL known as the sno
cactus, and depends for moisture upon u
~, melting snow. Ii has been recently pr
aI posed TO treat the plant al q table veg
" table, and IL 10 sand that boiled and serv,
up like asparagus, this cactus Is -four
equally succulent and satisfactory.
,p. "A human skeleton was unearthed |
ish laborers, a few days ago, near JanesyiD
Ia Wis which measureg thirteen fact