The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-10-19
Kicking a fallen man about the head Is

GOODWIN SMITH says; cit is The
fashion to accuse the Americans OF uu-
limited voracity, but they seem really TO
be about the only people who look at a
thing before they swallow it,"
"WHo will love my baby now? were
the last words of Mrs. Sien Chin, wife Of
Kwang XII Chin, Chinese Interpreter for
the Harvard students. Here is a golden
opportunity for a new song.
BRIGHAM YoUNG's grave is closely
guarded, and the ~phrenologist who wants
to know how big the prophets bump of
amativeness was will have to wait a long
time for the tough old skull.
Courteous, a man who charged Meth
ing for preaching, used to say "Coarse
rice for food, water to drink, and Il
Bonded arm for a pillow-happiness may
be enjoyed even in these
A PAIR of boot-lasts have been made
for Leonard Wilcox, of Rome, \. Y,
who is seven feet high and weighs six
hundred pounds. The lasts are twenty
two inches long and eighteen around the
instep.
ALL the other passions condescend at
times to accept the memorable logic of
fact but jealousy looks facts straightin
the Ease, ignores them utterly, and says
she knows a great deal better than they
can tell her.-Helps.
"To some minds, education is like the
notionofa dress-Something which should
be literally trimmed, which should have
its rough edges bound, its basting threads
pulled, 50 as to give no hint OF process,
and then worn and displayed to the best
advantage"
To a man weighing two hundred
pounds, hanging appears to be rather
pleasant. Mr.. Burns, of Missouri, a
person of that weight, WA hanged four
times, and he says that he lest con-
seriousness every time as soon as his feet
left the floor; that he felt no pain at any
time"
And so beside the silent sea
wait the mutiled oar
No ham from Him can come TO me
On ocean or on shore.
know not where his Islands III
Their irunded palms In air
| only know cannot drift
BeyOnt His love and care.
"ITi is many things to its many dwell
ers, this world is. 1t is a home; it is a
workshop; it Isl place of amusement it
is a school with trouble and pain for
teachers for the deyout, it is a church
to worship in and for those who have
ewes to see, it is the wisdom, and the
glory, and the love OF God"
OF Chicken Charley, a Salt Lakethiel,
it is said "He will steal nothing but
chickens. You can trust him anywhere
or with anything but chickens. If he
comes into the society of chickens, he is
bound to steal them. He has served out
several imprisonments for this same
crime, the last a year in the pe%nitentiary;
but he was no sooner Il free mar than he
was indulging his old passion"
"Ay. thou art welcome, heavens delicious bresth
When woods begin to wear the crimson leaf,
Aud suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow
brief,
And the wear smiles, as itdraws near its death;
Wind Of the sunny south oh still delay
In the CAV woods, and in the golden air,
Like to a good old age, released from care,
Journeyiny, in long serenity, away,
In such a bright, late quiet wOdld that
Might wear out life like thee, 'mid bowers aud
brooks,
And, dearer vet. the sunshine of kind loo ks,
And music of kind voices ever nigh
And when my last sand wrinkles in the glass,
Pass silently from men, y 70 upot lhhs.
THERE are many Piutes at Como Lake
where INDEPENDENTLY those OF the
spOon-bill variety--are very plentiful at
present. The ducks are very tat, on &C.
count of the great abundance Of the spe-
cies of fly peculiar to the lake. The In
dams eat both the ducks and the flies.
The flies buzz about the surface of the
water in myriads. When scooped off
the water they seem TO be perfectly help
less. They are thrown upon mats to die
and dry in the sun. They are then
rubbed between the hands to break of
the legsand wings, which latter parts are
winnowed out and the bodies packed in
sacks and baskets for winter use. When
boiled the flies turn red. looking and
tasting like salmon Virginia Enterprise.
THE phenomenon of phesphoresence at
sea has generally been supposed to be
caused by electricity. Sci ntists now as
sert that electricity has nothing to do
with the matter. They claim that it Is
due to microzoa which exists far down in
the sea depths. and rises at certain seasons
of the wear. There are different species.
The principal one, according to Pouchet,
is the military noctiluca. Their sub
stance is a diaphamous Jelly. In the
tropical seas they are seen in perfection.
The whole broad surface of the sea is a
blaze of light. Tongues Of liquid fire
dart f.om before the pow of the ship as
it plows along and the wake of the yes
sell seems like q line, somewhat whittier
and more beautiful than the normal con-
dition of the sea before it was disturbed.
The old Egyptian and Assyrian had
the downward slope of the eve and no
calves on the legs. The same with the
Greeks and other old ssvages. The men
had no calves. Wherever we find the
downward slope of the eve and no calves
we find fsnaticism and ignorance. Shsw
me a man without calves and will show
you a nincompoop. The cat has a down
ward slope of the eye, and the cat is a
fanatic. In Massachusetts, We have a
statesman with a downward slope of the
eve, or rather both eyes and he lsa
fanatic. ] refer to General Butler. An.
other thing: Our forefathers had small
noses. Having small noses thew munched
their food ; yes, munched it. Your great
grsndtathers actually munched what
they ate. As they grew more civilized
they cut their meat, their jaw grew
smaller and they gradually ate IL. Ny