The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-31

SHAKsPEARE's chair sold at auction in
England, recently, for 1925.
THE communist wants to earn hi,
/. bread by the sweat of some other fellows
brow.
A LovEsICK girl who had married
against her fathers wishes came back
after her first ~conjugal tiff. "Kill the
prodigal," exclaimed the father, 1.-THE
calf has returned"
The New York Times says that The
idea of teaching every girl to thump a
piano and every boy to be 4 book.keeper
will make potatoes worth 81 FER bushel
in twenty years from now.
Two ostriches, harnessed to a wagon.
can pull n load of a thousand pounds,
and all the care they need is a pail Of
water, two or three old bones and u hod
of brick, Send in your orders early.
tr has been decided by eastern doctofs
that it Isn't the surf bathing nor the
mineral water which does n fashionable
young lady good, but it's getting a good
square meal three or four times per day.
SOME men can never take a Joke.
There was an old doctor who, when
asked what was good for mosquitoes,
wrote back How do you suppose |
can tell unless / know what ails the mos,
quito?"
If the car wishes to perfectly ami
hilate the Turks, he should arm his sol,
diers with firearms supposed to be
empty" They do more damage now-a,
days than any other weapon h'tadd'
phiG Bulletin.
PERsIANs can borrow a cooked ham
for the family table, and when 1T is re-
turned the dealer weighs it and charges
for the amount that has been used. The
plan wouldn't work in this Yankee land;
the borrower would fill the hollow bone
with shot and make out that the dealer
owed him for two pounds and a quarter
of meat Worcester Press.
ONE cent on the dollar is the settle.
ment which John F. Chamberlain, the
fashionable gambling house keeper, of
Washington and Long Branch, has made
with his eighty-one creditors. The
debts included those of gambling, his
personal, household, and every manner
of bills. Other claims are pending
against him by August Belmont and the
Lorillards for purses on races.
AN actual Philadelphia advertisement
"a refined gentleman, who does not use
tobacco in any form, but does have family
prayers and vocal blessings at table, with
a genteel wife (none Others in their
family, can have five or six rooms,
partly furnished every convenience
undertakings, water on each floor, and
give table board to two ladies for rent;
our superior house girl can be retained,
if wanted"
PERHAPS one of the most cruel things
ever said was contained in Foots advice
to the duke of Norfolk of that day. On
a masquerade night his grace consulted
the famous actor as to what character he
should appear in, Don't go disguised"
said Foot, "but assume a new character
go sober" 1t was the successor OF the
duke of Norfolk in question who con
suited Abernethy tor some ailnent, and
was asked whether he ever tried the rem
edy of a clean shirt ornhW Magazine.
THE Atlantic sparrow gets the
following notice from the Boston AdVer-
tiser: "All our little American young
sters are harassed by the savage English
pest, which makes up in pugnacity and
numbers what it lacks in size. 1t is
driving them away, and giving in its
stead its own untunetul cries and the
chatter of its constant pickering under
our windows. 1t is prolific to a marvel,
and if delicately favored, as in the past,
WILSON suggest the frogs OF Egypt.
Ara New Orleans hotel bar an eager
controversy was pending 'twixt various
generals, majors, etc, when a quiet TEL
low observed, 81 happened to be there,
gentlemen, and possibly may be able to
refresh your memories" ThereupOu he
proceeded to give a succinct account
of a small action. What might have
been your rank, sir?" asked the hotel
keeper Il was a private" About to
start the next day, he demanded his BILL
a" Not a cent, sir; not a cent. You're
the first private | ever met
The indianapolis Sentinel saws quite
a dramatic scene occurred at a RocEVlne
temperance meeting last week, A
tramp who had been notified to leave
town stepped upon the platform and be,
gan to speak to the utter amazement oil
the audience. His outward appearance
was so hopeless that when he betrayed by
his perfect rethoric and %eloquence the
evidence of a fine education, his hearers
were astonished. The people were so
delighted with the speech of the poor
fellow that he was invited to speak The
next night, and a subscription was taken
up for his benefit. In early days he
in the office of a Terre Haute law
yer, and he was on his way to that place
in search of employment.
A MAN out on West Hill was grievously
tormented with a Thomas cat. And ne
determined to slay the same. So he
the cat, put it in his basket, coy,
cred it with a board, intending to st
Town on it, intending to fill the bucket
with water, and thus drown the I. [.
But as he sat down, the active prisoner
pushed away the board, and when the
nan arose and sauntered into the house
o look for the "extract of witch hazel
le could not tell whether he had set
lown on a stove lid, or merely slid down
shellbark hickory tree and lit in a goose
,erry bush. And hat night, a worm
differing man, lying on his face trylngto
leep, sighed as he listened to the mock
ng smiles of a twelve.pound cat, peltlng
he lambent moonlight on the woodsheu
'oof.-HdUkeye.
A 50O 1000, 900 Bonanza in PERU
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