The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-01-05
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what a curious result Of figures it gives
LOVE il often as much of an accident
as a potato plant growing between the
bricks of back garden walk.
SIDNEY SMITH once said TO his pros
porous brother, You have risen by your
gravity and have sunk by my l%eyity."
TIE ponies taken from the Indians
sell for only six or seven dollars each,
but a six dollar horse with an Indian on
him is quite a different thing.
SOME physicians now claim that the
general prevalence of diptheria is due in
a great degree to the gas which is thrown
off from coal stoves in lily ventilated
rooms.
THERE is nothing dispels the dreams
of youth and skaters the ambitious
hopes of the noble boy like having &
young lady remark in his hearing that
he would make with study, a good hat
rack.
THEY were married about six weeks
afterward, and now she hasn't been
kissed for so long that she couidn'tteIl
a kiss from a bite, and she carries her
head high all the time so as to watch
him aud the hired girl.-Ha~keye.
"WHY in the world don't you g to
work ?" inquired a citizen of a lazyie
'Ow who was trying to borrow some
money. -" Go to work ?" echoed the
man, chow can | do anything till
know for certain who is going to be the
next PRESIDENT"
AN anxious youth, driving an exceed.
ingly dilapidated horse through our
streets the other day, using the whip re-
gardless of expense, was asked, "Why
do you fog the poor beast so ?" "Got
to-" he said, with the utmost sobeTress
"he's dying"
"WHY quarrel over such a small thing
as politics :" was the way two men ofop-
pOsite beliefs opened conversation in Chi
cago one day recently. And yet in less
than twenty minutes two policemen
were holding these men apart and leid.
ing them off to the station-house.
THE Utica Herald says that a yong
woman in that city, who had inordina ely
big ears, but otherwise very pretty, came
to New York and had them cut down by
a skillful surgeon. The operation was
successful, and now her ears are snail,
symmetrical, and not badly SCARED
Mr.. SoTHERN, in New Orleans has
been reused at six o'clock in the norm
ing, carried four miles in a freezing hind,
ana his feelings exercised to Il dgree
astonishing for "Dundrery,"
all 20 see two men shoot blank cartHlges
at ore another, the same being a iock
duel arranged expressly to hoax the
actor, and entirely succeeding in itpur-
pose.
Two female apostles of tempeiuce
recently preached in the pulpit olthe
Second Presbyterian church OF Newark,
and now the pastor, Rev. Mr.. See, on
trial for permitting women to teak
silence in the house of the Lord. Rev. h
DR.. Craven, u Of the speakers, Con 4
tends that the law of God and of naure :
is that women is subordinate to han,
and that it is not right or lawful fol her
to preach"
"THE most sensible lady's hat over
invented for the theater is known asthe
buggy crown jewel The highltop
which holds the f~io,Sers, feathers, buds
and birds used for trimming, is pom
trived like a buggy top frame, whiclican
be turned over and lowered on thdtOp
of the head when the wearer is seata in
the tbeater. The arrangement is kry
satisfactory. When the curtain fses
all bonnet.tops are expected to be tuhed
down, leaving an unobstructed view dthe
stage to persons sitting in the rear otthe
front row.
MADAME SUSANNA LEG1ER, a goodac-
but extremely stout, was M eSn-
enacting a part in a melodrama 9th
Taillade, the original Pierre of The
Two Orphans" who had at one podan
carry her f~ainting off the stage. FiSe
with all his might TO lift the fat
but although she helped her liz
lie comrade by standing on tiptoe, in the /
Usual manner, he was unable TO move be /
In inch. At this ju%ncture a boy iD tb
called out, take what you ca /
md come back for the rest"
ANOTHER fond delusion has vanished
The theory that the weight of a pig ism
more after he has partaken of three pal
f swill than before is exploded. At n
amily reunion held at Clinton, Mass, III
husetts, on Thanksgiving-day, then
Tere four sons, one daughter, three
aughters-in-law, a son n-law, and
nough of grandchildren to swell the
lumber TO fifteen souls and as many
The united weight of this
lmily before dinner was 1862 pounds3
lie united weight after dinner was l.,
pounds; the net gain representing
lie weight of the dinner actually eaie1
as 35i pounds; the average gain ref
omach was 1920 pounds; the maxi
um gain, or the largest dinner eaten
ls Al mounds the minimum gain was