The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-07-02

Popular Drawing-Drawing a big
salary.
Where to find milkmen-At the
watering-places.
Trials for the Human Understanding
Long walks.
There is q man in Florida nine feet
and six inches high.
Gloucester, Mass, has $4,000 inhabit-
ants and no base ball club
For what port are you bound during
courtshipP Bound TO Havre.
The Washington Life avoids the
faults of both mutual and stock compe'
MES.
"A couple of Cincinnati clippers walk
cd twelve miles, the other night, after a
clergyman.
The number Of deaths among Odd
Fellows In Wisconsin is, yearly, five in
every thousand.
Stockton, Cal, has 1900 inhabi tants,
seventeen churches, but no public Ii
brary.
"A fashionable dressmaker warns la
dies that o SILK dress should mover be sal
in ~(satin).
The President of the oldest Life In.
surance Company in New York Is insured
in the Washington Life.
"A Pennsylvania youth of 20, unable
to pay his board bill of $40, has married
his Iandlady, a widow of 70.
The guide at Niagara Falls says that
women show more nerve and frmness
than men in visiting the Gave of Winds"
The Ohio State Penitentiary has a
prisoner called the "irreprossible horse
thief" who has spent seventeen years In
prison.
I'm a country graveyard, In New Jer-
sey, il q plain stone with this inscription
"Julia Adams, died of thin shoes, April
n, 1899, aged nineteen
The Boston Transcript says that ga
good cook shows her talent by nicely dish
ing I'D mince. meat, and a good paper IL
known by tact in serving the items"
In New York city and Brooklyn it ia
claimed that there are 1917 policy and
lottery offices, 1853 faro banks, and not
less than $30,000,0O0 are annually lost and
won.
"A Texan has Just started for Ger
many to get a large fortune which Is In.
numbered with a dukedom. He don't
care about the title, but wants the title
deeds.
Asking a lady what her accomplish
ments are Is, generally speaking, harm
less enough. Still, in these days, II might
in some cases cause embarrassment TO put
the question, "Do you paintf"
"A man Is said to be absent minded
when he thinks he has left his watch al
home, and takes 1t out Of his pocket tc
see If he has got time to return home anc
SET 1t. -.
One James II Henrique has been helt
10 bail at Philadelphia, charged with thu
false Imprisonment Of an insane brother
who, It is alleged, has been confined in
room In the house for seventeen years.
An old bachelor says: sit Is oil non
sense TO pretend that love is blind.
never vet knew q man in love that did no
see ten times as much in his swecthear
as | could"
"A veteran was relating his exploitst'
a crowd Of boys, and mentioned havinl
been In five engsgements. "Tha's moth
ing" broke in a little fellow, MY siste
Sarah's been engaged eleven times"
"A patient, on the point Of being opc
rated on by a hospital surgeon, said +
him, trembling "0h, doctor, / rely o.
vour address, cit Is 81 --- street, a
usual" absently answered the disciple {
Galen.
/ An Assistant Marshal, in taking tn
! census In Louisville, asked q colored VIC
man what personal property she possess
ed, and received the sober reply "Notf
I ing but desc three chillen yere, an de
: amt wuth much"
Indignant at the false reports whic
Y have been published, o New Hampshii
man declares that he will give o dollar Il
the autograph Of every member OF th
New Hampshire Legislature who 10 uni
y BILE to write his W name.
= An Irish servant girl named Scot
q who has been washing dishes at the /
= wing Hotel, New York, for three dollars
week, lately fell heir TO a legacy of $75
600, by the death of an uncle, In Ne
. Orleans. There Is q vacancy In the dis
washing corps Of the Irving.
81 -"Why must / learn TO write nicely
asked the son Of a noted autograph CT
i. lector--"grown.up people write 80 vel
d badly. Why" added he, admiringl
d aFreddy writes almost as badly as grow