The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-12-21
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-[St. Nicholas.
The surest way to interest the In
dion in agriculture is to show hin
that whiskey is made out Of corn
-[Deadwood News.
Judging from numerous sample
of his work. Cupid must be drum
about two>thirds of the time.--[N
Y. Home Journal.
Gail Hamilton is studying astron
omy. Her quaking antagonists will
be only too glad to hear flat she i
up among the little tars.-[Chicag
Tribune.
Most every hackman you see wa.
a cavalrymaD in the days of ware
fare. That's Why they're so goot
on the charge.-[N. Y. Commercial
Advertiser.
The State Register will never e
to heaven if it does not quit credits
ing Burdette's Dots to the Osh-
kosh Christian Adyocate.-[Bur-
lington Hawkeye.
An Englishman, recently arrived
in Boston, has distinguished himself
by biting a mans thumb off. We
suppose he must have been from
northumberland Boston Post.
1t may not be new, but it is still
in order for the youth Of the period
to show his appreciation of a good
thing by remarking that the pull
back dresses are going out with the
Eied.-[Andrews Bazaar.
The little village of Antwerp N.
Y, contains sixty>two widows. No
book agent or sewing machine man,
they say, w goes into the place
without coming out dead or married.
-[PubliSher's Weekly.
A Massachusetts girl swallowed
a hair pin about six weeks ago, and
was married three days alterward.
Now, then, girls risky, but you
can't get anything good without
some riak.-[Appleton's journal.
"My DEAR" said a husband in
sta, Ting tones, after awa&ing his
wife in the night, 81 have swallowed
a dose of strychnine u "Well,
then, do for goodness sake lie still
or it may come up."-[Indlanapolis
Journal.
"The Poor Old Tramp" was well
played at a parlor musical enter
tainment in Detroit the other even
ing. But for that matter, poor old
tramps arc pretty well played"
everywhere about now.-[Toledo
"Silence in the court !" Numbered
4 Kentucky judge, the other morn>
ing. "Half a dozen men have been
convicted already without the
having been able to hear a
word of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Journal.
Never send q woman to the post
office with a letter. If she doesn't
quarrel with the postmaster because
she doesn't see it go right into the
mail bag, she will forget to stamp
t., read it, or else loose it before she
gets TO the office. Woman's Jour
nal.
The rapidly with which pain
is second to that of light
A St. Louis lawyer who had
he tip Of his ear chawed off Thurs
lay didn't discover the mayhem till
The pain had net reached
aim in forty hours.-St. Louis
Times.
Tie scissors idiot is quick to clip
IN item about the death of old man,
me hundred years old, who had
used tobacco; but he never
sakes any interest in the death of a
ooy from nicotine. The truth is,
he. scissors idiot is himself a smoker.
-[Oshkosh Christian Advocate.
They raise vegetable tallow in
Australia. Thore is where the gar
lener can laugh and "grow fat"
[Cincinnati Saturday Night.
Wonder if its comes up ready>made
Pretty light crop If it does.
But it's-candalous to joke about
UGH things. Worcester Press.
When the owner of a little house
n Cleveland went to collect the
ent. he found that the tenant had
,ut it on wheels and moved it away.
The landlord fingered about the
'remises two days with the expecta-
ion of seeing the tenant return for
he cellar-but he didn't.-[Cleve-
and Herald.
There is a hole in the ground up
q Anamosa in which there are
hirty thousand dollars, and if any
ody wants TO go and dig for it,
hey may have it. There is no fraud
bout this, the hole was dug and the
loney put into it by an a~rtesian
ell company, and the money must
e there yet, for nobody ever got a
snt of it back.-[Funny Folks. !
A sound apple is compact and !
lkes up no room. A rotten one .
i'll spread out over a mile of side !;
ak and as people make door :
rapers ont of the cur bstones, they .