The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-10-26

ie never comes again.
But when, come night, beside tbs,..
! "a'cr. wnen sunset red has ceased 10 bn,,
ina' siiSer path and sigh, "Ah me,
He never will return
II on that bridge Of ripping light
Ills homeward feet should find their vav
rhould not wonder nj the %siQbi''
nut oily nay,
A love, MY love,
knew you would not stavu
-E"'abeM Akers, n Aaay.
ONE of the most dangerous nr.,,,.
of the times Is drinking from a vs"s'
used for public drinking in a hotel WV, ,st
road car or depot.-Dr. Maury. TALL
THE OIL City Derrick avs Wa a,.,
care a cent what becomes Of the last ma.
or the first one either. 1t Is what ; !. !
become of the intermediate fellows thSl
interests us. "N
AN advertisement in Pittsburp cslli,.
far a farm laborer received eight y
sponses; an advertisement CALLING fo,.
book-keeper received one hundred ,,i
thirteen. 'N
"DID you ever notice how sensitiv,
are the ears OF a woman in church 10 n.
crying of some other wOman's baby. snI
how deafer than a post she is when h.,
own offspring sets up its piercipr
squalls"
The chief of all the curses of this u,
happy age is the universal gable Of II
fools and of the flocks that follow than
rendering the quiet voices of the wia
men of all past time inaudible.- RasEM
ABOUT three months ago, a wortble,
fellow named Kelly tattooed nearly tW0
hundred persons in that part of the en-.
~lightened north known as Reading, p,
and thus communicated to them a loath.
some disease. The dangerous fool bn
just been arrested in Philadelphia.
Miss HELEN TAYL OR complains that
men make eating too much of a pleasure
Would the talented lady have us st
down in sack cloth to our hashes, shed
tears over steaks and onions and howl
aloud Brother, we must die, at TIE
sight Of n calfs head2- un.
Miss PIERsoN says OF a female medical
student in the Russian army: "Tbs
lady wore her hair short and parted on
one side ; spectacles with gold rims; q
black tunic belted in round the waist,
and a short black skirt. She smoked
cigars, and seemed hail fellow well met
with all her companions"
"SIR!" exclaimed Il long.suHerins
Burlington editor, whose patience wa
entirely exhausted, "Sir, have sent
you no less than seventeen bills for this
one lot of goods, and what have you
done with them ?" "Vetoed 'em;
vetoed every one of 'em," " was the calm
as the debtor lit fifteen cent cigr
and hailed a street car.-Hawkeye.
A CHICAGO journalist in London say,
of English journalism : "a very promi,
nent judicial investigation may not be
noticed at all a fire in which six people
were burned will be disposed of in five
while a bicycle race will be given a
column. An atrocious murder does well
if it gets six lines of minion, while the
of the cornerstone of a new school
building is badly treated if it does not
get a couple of columns of BREWER"
WHEN Kemble was rchearsing the
romance sung by Richard, in the play Of
&c Richard Ceur de Lion" Shaw, the
leader of the band, called out from the
orchestra "Mr. Kemble, my dear Mr..
Kemble, you are numbering time"
Kemble, calmly and coolly taking a
pinch of snuff, said My dear sir, it is
for me to murder time at once
than to be constantly beating him as you
1o."
He was up to see his girl on SUNDAY
He is a nice young man, careful
n his ways, and with his best eyes wide
open to the main chance. In the course
IL his conversation he observed cheer
lilly" Times are looking better,
| was reading in the paper last
night that stocks are firmer, and the
crops were never more abundant. |
shouldn't be surprised if the old pros
,erity came back to us this winter" 81
nope So" said she dreamily, for I'm
about tired of crunching on rock
The young man squirmed.-
Daabmy Aews.
How imbecile and silly seem all The
tale, ~hackneyed, worn-out popular slang
of other days! "1here you 60
your eye outl" "Wha a phock.
ng bad hat !" How are you of
soap?" "Flsre up and join the
inion !" "How's your poor feet?"
What stupidity, affecting sharpness, be,
raysitself in these obsolete impertinences
n respect Of fun, and point and clever
less, what a difference there is between
ii those and the sparkling exclamation
With which the lively lower orders nov
ontinually salute each other and Their
uperiors-Whoa. Emmal Punch.
PToLEMY, in his great work written
While Caesar was a boy, calls Albion 8
island; and Pliny before the Close
t the first century and little before
'tolemy says that the island of Great
was formerly called Albion, ts
anne of Britain being common to all the
about it. The formerly" goes
ack to earliest records, for Aristotle, born
81 years b. c., mentions the island'
I Albion and Ierue. The name is pro-
ably of Gallo origin, the same as Albyn
,r Albin), the name of Scottish High
Inds. It is the plural of alp, or ALP
gnifying rocky mountains, the shoe
'hich looked toward France appearing
ke a long row of rocks. -,
A CORRESPONDENT with the Turkish
eet writes /: I'm speaking of the arms
Ient of the Arsari Tefyk, | should men
on that a most valuable addition has
,tely been made in the shape of q re-
shell gun. 1t is the inventions
Frenchman, and in connection with the
light, may be considered as the
ny best defense yet brought o~ut.agains
rpedo boats. 1t throws a one-potnq
ell with a pointed steel head capsbleOl
the plates of which the Thorny'
oft lis Constructed, and has q rang
something like 5000 yards. B1en!
scribed, it is Gatling gun on a larg'
ale, having five revolving rifed bsries
stead of ten, the said barrels Delns