The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-01-19
FACTS AND PANCIEy.


"DDE'T she return your lover
Eyes, she did she said she did't want
1t. That's what's KILN me-"
SCENE on a street car: Conductor 10
passenger who Is smoking: "If you want
to smoke on this car you must put out
your cigar or get of right away"
"WHAT did the puritans come to this
country for" asked a Massachusetts,
teacher of his class. ITO worship 10
their own way and make other people DO
the same"
BEFORE 1870 there were no horse rail.
roads In London. There are now twenty
four routes in running order, and the
traffic has increased from 100000 pas
sengers in 1871 TO 81, 900, 900 in 1876.
TALENT is power; tact is skill. Talent
makes Q man respectable; tact makes
him respected. Talent convinces; tact
converts. Talent commands; tact is
obeysd. Talent is something; tact is
everything. 4
M son," aid MI. X, kindly, TO his
youthful heir, "accustoT yourself to be
polite to the porter, the servant girl, the
coachman. to all the servants; thus you
| will come in time to be courteous TO all
people, even to your parents"
He was q well-meaning man, but they
had been married a lsng while, and
when he playfully asked her what was
next to nothing, she sarcastically an
swered that-at this season of the year she
thought his winter ~fiannels were.-Nor.
tcich Bulletin.
THE Cherokees have over eighty com.
mon schools. The Chickasaws have four
public and about ten district schools.
The Choctaws have two public schools
and over fifty district schools. The Greeks
have three public schools and about thir-
ty district schools
Or one thing there is very little seen
nowadays, even in the houses of the
| wealthy, and that is solid silver. To pos
sess it is to send an invitation to the bur.
lars from far and near, we respond to 1t
at once, and pick ont the good from the
initiated with q care and accuracy which
might excite admiration, if The conse.
quences were not 30 disagreeable.-Jennt
June.
ONE of the most graceful things ever
| said in the complimentary line was the
| observation made by a New York paper
last week concerning the integrity Of
Swan, the defaulter, in his dealings with
the Bleecker street savings bank, of which
he was secretary. Ellis position" says
the paper Referred TO, "gave him no
| opportunity to handle the funds Of that
institution, and his connection with it
was marked by strict integrity"
TRAGEDIES like this occur in golden
California; John G.. Dawes left two
| weeks ago with his flock of 1000 sheep
| for the north. While crossing the alkai
lands near Tulare lake he camped for the
| night, and in the morning when he awoke
he saw his sheep all lying down but one,
and on examination found that there was
but that one alive. They had all quiet
ly died in the night-a loss of more than
| 3 5000.
A VENERABLE divine, who had been
dining out the night before, went intoa
barber shop one morning TO be shaved.
| He saw that the barber had been getting
more drink than was good for him, for i
made his hand shake very much, and,
naturally 9 little indignant, be began to
| give him alittls moral advice by saying:
bad thing, drink" eyes" said the
barber, az makes the skin remarkably
tender" 8Aa
Cor course they're all right said
| Colonel Nose, in the Fashion saloon last
| night, as be shufled the cards after the
| dealer, shut then yer see it don't do no
| harm to give 'em a riff Just for luck. A
man may believe yer when yer tell him
the north pole is red hot, OF that bis
mother-in-law ia an angel in disguis,
but when he gets a jack full beat in =
game Of bean poker, it Is . difficult thing
10 make him believe thst everything IS
exactly on The squar." &h%~
AMoNe the young women At the high
school in Portland, Me, Mass poor las
that worked n 4 boarding house. She
arose 1T thrso o,6lock every morning, got
breakfast, put the kitchen In order, and
then went 70 school; returning in the
afternoon, she cleared the lunch table,
cooked the aupper, and did other hous'
work. Last week she fell sick Of . fever
and was taken to a hospital, whore the
matron ascertAined that she wore only
one petticoat underneath her thin calico
gown. She has been sent TO Auburn,
N. r., where she has relatives. She still
shows pluck: she says abe viii 60 back TO
tho boarding-house and high school.
A couxrRnAN excited some attention
on D Of the New Haven railfoad trains
last week BY going through TIE can and
oferinx to bet that be had . key that
would wind any watch. There were no
takers for some time, Is most Of the pas
sengers had sen the patent keys sid in
front OF the new postofhc& Finally be
awakened q man who was asleep 10 enc
end Of the car, who at snce accepted the
waesrs The stakes (fvs dollafs) were
put pp, and the stranger banded his
watch % IL conntrymsn, Who hd1nhled
over Il for some time, but finally banded
Il back to him. saying. II can't find the
key heIe.r "Probnbly not rid The
stranger, as he replaced il IN his poctet
and scooped the bet. "fts q ufeu.
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