The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-08-27

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"A kaAd 70 mou.A ealsisacs-T hs, oi
dentist
-Heesni ssslmsiss pu, ,he populaiion
Of California At Hoo.D00.
during peace = regiment IL quAf
tered duflnf wsf time Y II occasionally
cut 30 pieess.
-one New York bird faheief has
twenty thousand nanahea an hand fnf sale
Dividends are applied 10 keep Tie pol
ICY IN force In the Washington LIFE VI
New York.
Tho ensus returns indicate that
Maine has q population ofasnut 5000 less
than In 1880
"A deacon At Cavendish, W, was n.
hned go for selling cider TO al
habitual drunkard.
of man who recently died, n IL said,
" His name will be remembered where
ever his deeds and mortgages are known"
The charter Of the Washington Life
secures all the profits 10 the Insured.
More than this canno, be done.
IA friend Of ours" says the editor of
q contemporary, "is growing weaker and
wcaker every day. He has got so weak
now that he can't raise Eve dollars"
Well, Annie, how did you get along
with that stupid fool of a lover Of yours
Did you succeed in getting rid Of him y
"oh, yes | got rid OF him very easily, |
married him, and have no lover now"
"A supply" once prayed for an alb
sent pastor, referring TO bis srrivalin Eng
land, as "worshiping God In a foreign
land, where the language Is the same, but
the accent different"
In 1868 the mercury in New York
rose to ninety degrees and upward eight
times in 1859, FIVE times; but during the
present year II has reached that elevation
thirty-one times.
With leo at its present price 1.-TWO
cents per pound the New Yorker who
had FOG ice, pitchers presented 10 him al
his recent silver wedding thinks himself
insulted.
"A letter from Claremont, N. II, says
such a dry time has not been known here
since John II. Warland edited the Glare
mont Ea9le, some twenty-five years ago
when he said 1t was so dry that be hadtC
soak his pig to make him hold swill.
An indianapolis German had occa
sion recently to bury a large wife, and *
%fquabbled with the sexton about the fee
hI1.t iab pot a bie~ urax,at anfJ tba digrbo
ISOLATE husband, mot a big grave" in
d~ignantly responded the sexton, "why
hang II, that's q cellar"
-Twenty.f five cents worth Of alcohol,
beverages may totally unfit a Ia 70
business fifty cents worth may place hi
property at the disposal of a swindler
and seventy five cents worth may causr
him to murder his wife, o. his child, o.
some other human being.
TIT will interest everybody" remark
a Maine journal, Ito know that the Sed
ge~eunkedunk Is o romantic stream II
Brewer, and that the Sowadabscook Ia l
Carmel. The source of the Jerusalem
crickets has not yet been discovered, a
though II Is thought that 1t must be som
where in the vicinity Of the Musluscon
ungumjuwippslecoit."
The landlord of the Commercial liz
tel, Memphis, has two owls which hav
been In the possession of his family fo
over sixty years. His grandfather go
them from an old North Carolina Indian
who said they had been In his family six c
he was a child and long before They ar
still worth a score Of cats as mousers.
The Pittsburgh Gazette tells about
gentleman of that city who, during tn
absence Of his better. half In Europe
made pies, broiled steaks, cooked potatoes
made beds, swept carpets, busted book
etc, and yet has pursued his ordinary ~
o~catioD, and Is s % delighted with the kim
Of work that he would be willing to do
oil the time. The lady vas assent 81
months.
An observing dog attacked a pi
which had entered q dry goods store |
an Eastern town the other day, bit off II
tail, and then seized piggy by the ear an
led 1t shrieking back to Its quarters In tn
rear. He then returned TO the store
picked up the tail, carried II out to tn
pig, and then withdrew from the scene.
Don Piatt writes from Saratoga
"One OF the most notable features here, 0
at all our summer resorts, Is the proml
nence of the Hebrew element. Turl
where you will, the u~nmistakahle features
dress and manners OF Israel meet you
The best rooms In these hotels are occu
pied by Jews. The handsomest toilet
are on their daughters the finest turnout
belong to the paternal Hebrews"
A story Is told Of q Cambridge Pro
fessor In England who was asked TO cal
on a friend In London, ar address beinI
given him In q certain square. Som
time afterward the Professor was aske'
by his friend why he had not been 10 se'
| him, and his answer was ~ did corut
but there was some mistake you told In
you lived in q square, and | found myseI
In q parallelogram, and so | went ava,
again"
The following Is list Of the election
to be held this year In the several State
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