The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-17
FACTS AND TCIES,


ii And a foine spot for %pratee'," said Bryan o'cd 'S
J, Bryan O'Coyle a bridge did design
he butt the Two inds, but the inds woud,,. Fl.
INN ne saw the result av his wisdom and m, que
""pi wear All the longer said bryan O'Covl,
Bryan O'Coyle he established A tchool
Bat tachers and scholars oil fed fras h..
'bedad, I've a thrick the desayeTs to ,oi, '"e'
II : ~ 'acheis ana scholars" said Bryan o,Cov,.
Bryan o'Coyle built road through tbe ,ovn
10 make us reminder his name and renoyn'
"esa,n maj " hardly according 10 Hovl.,,
i's aceofdin TO meP said bowid'Bryan O C1,"Si,
a Bryan o'Coyle found his money WIS spint
( Wv ,"a' . iueAy - SAID he, NOW | can't lose ,
3 III deptnd on me credit to make the NOT ho,,
, And III live on me taxos!' said BRYAN oGnni,
Boshm TranscriJ
LATE iorthe party, grandma. Hon.
awfully oldtashioned you are. Dow,
you know that nowadays nobodv @aa' =
to a party till everybody is there, 5"'
NINETEEN times within the las, h,,.
dred years the Russian forces hor,
crossed the Danube with hostile ipt"nt
without including the present crossing
HAVE you ever read about the te,o.
phone 7" was asked of a man in town
few days ago. 81 s'pose I have" renl;aa
the other, "but / really forget wbapthoi
he is a Russian or a Turkish general, II
is so hard to get the hang OF these foreian
generals" S"
DEAN SWIFT has found an initator
An advocate of Colmar has left 100 00of
to the local mad house. Il got tbi,
money says the candid lawyer in his
VIII, out of those who pass their lives
N litigation; in bequeathing it for tho
use of lunatics ! only make restitution
HARTFORD folks are so scared over bv.
%drophobia that they carry rolls of lun,r
caustlc in theirpockets ready to cauteriza
themselves if they are bitten BY dops,
III Is not uncommon to see citizen with
pants rolled up and caustic in hand
waiting on a street corner for q mad dor
to so by.
A YOUNG man who was heavily fined
IN a San Francisco court for kissing h;s
betrothed against her will, didn't break
up the engagement and demand the re-.
turn OF rings, pictures and letters. He
simply wrote: dear Lydia-You'l
have to wait till | can borrow money
enough to pay the minister"
A RICH, but parsimonious and very old
gentleman, on being taken to task for his
nncharitaDleness, said "True, | don't
give much; but if you ouly knew how
hurts me when | give anything, YOU
wouldn't wonder. | am in hopes to feel
when | inherit brother Bills
property"
AN lrishman who had been sick for A
long time was one day met by the parish
priest, when the following conversation
took place "Well, Patrick, | am glad
you have recovered. Were YOU not afraid
% meet your God ~ ooh, no, YOUR
-lverence. 1T was meetin' the other chan
hat was afraid ov," repliel Fat,
y PENNFYLyANIA DutchnMr, who
married. his second wife soon after the
uncral of the first, was visited with a
wo hours' seIcuade in token of disap.
,roval. He expostulated pathcticaIiy
nus: IL say, poys,you ought to be
of yonrselts to be making all
lis noise ven deere vas a funeral here so
oon."
IT is a beautiful starry night and the
eniors are out singing. First senior, who
astronomy Look up there and
how beautiful Orion looks" Second
9nior, who does not study astronomy.
ut who has a streak of Irish blood Is
nat Organ? Thank the Lord, then,
lere is one Irishman in heaven, anyhow
Cornell Era.
IT was very muddy weather when Pres
.ent Hayes visited Rhode Island, and
lie went away he carried away about
of the State on his boots and
I'd to sit down in Connecticut and
t his feet hang yer the line while the
inhabitants scraped off their
tates. The islanders don't want him
come back again.
RosslNI, walking one day in Passy
tn a friend, passed q stout street mu-
ian singing to a guitar, in a most hor.
fashion, the serenade from the
lr6'eT, The composer stopped and gave
e vocalist a piece of money. What"
ID his friend, astonished, "'you encour-
e this robust mendicant He has no
needing pity" "Oh" said
'sSini, don't you hear the voice with
iich he is afflicted ?"
ONE of our citizens of an observing
1 experimental turn Of mind found a
q upon his doorstep recently, and in
Ter to discover whether it could hear
II got down upon his knees and made
'erent noises to test the question. The
d bore the noise and took part in the
with such untagging good
ure that the inquirer was working up
siderable interest in the matter, when
happened to look up and found him
surrounded by a crowd of people who
specializing among themselves as to
ether he was crazy or simply drunk
Standard.
WESTERN Paper suggests, that Eng
sparrows be turned loose in the West
Eat the grasshoppers. This would
ice for the sparrows and the grass
pers, but bad for the farmers. No
row will eat a grasshopper or even
a savory morsel off from him unless
rs a large family starving on 80 cents
". The sparrow, as New Yorkeis
found to their grief, is essentially
eat +, and he declines even the
crest bug or the sweetest grub if he
get any vegetable relish. The spar,
would probably fling the grdsshopper
straight Graeeo-Roman wrtstIe, but
er would eat the other except in
ist stages of famine. II sparrows
ransplanted TO the West they will
r wheat with an aviditv that will
the gras1hoppers stand up on their
l'gs and whistle with amazement.
Attracting the Public Eye.
Brown, a worthy German, died