The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-10-05
FACTS AND FANCIES.


| Win dsriened cyelids, aud lashes yet
| From his late sobbiDg wet.
R,..,ng sway his tears. left other, OF my own,
For on a table, drawn beside his head,
Ue had put, within his reach,
4 hos N counters, and a red-yeined stone,
A piece Of glass, abraaeu ny IL '~A'"'
And ak cf seven sheIih,
A bottle with blue bells,
And Two French copper coins ranges theirs Nth
careful art,
To comfort his sad heart.
30 when that night | prayeu
To God, I wept and said, .,,os ,.
Al. when at fast we lie with at, anned breath,
Not yexlng Thee In death,
And Thou remembered Of what toys
We made our Joys,
How weakly understood
The great commanded Boon,
Then, fatherly, not less
Than 1 whom Thou hast noslded from the clay,
Thou'lt leave Thy wrath, and say
II will be sorry for thy childiShness.'
In every village there will arise a
m;screant to establish the most grinding
tyranny by calling himself the people,
Sir Robert Peel.
THE reputation of a mar is like his
shadow: gigantic when it precedes him,
and pigmy in its proportions wien II
f0ll0Ws.- iutteyfu""'
No remedy against this consumption
of the purse; borrowing only fingers and
fingers it out, but the disease is in.
durable 80 Shakespeare.
MEN possessing minds which are mo-
rose, solemn and inflexible, enjoy, in
general, a greater share OF dignity than
Of happiness.-Baco"'
A FRENCH paper observes that phi.
losophers pass their lives in not believing
what they see, and in trying to guess
what they don't see.
No man can be brave who considers
pain to be the greatest evil OF iue; nor
temperate, who considers pleasure th
the highest good Cicero.
IT is an uncontrolled truth that no
man ever made an ill figure who under.
stood his own talents, nor a good one
who mistook them.-Swf.
O, HOW many deeds of deathless virtue
and immortal crime the world had
wanted, had the actor said, Il will do
this to-morrowl'--Lord John Russell.
AN Indiana man without money, but
"solid" with his grocer, went and bought
81. so worth of sugar and SOLD II Tor a
dollar to get money to 60 to the Circus
ONCE again the happy time has CONF
when the law allows the restaurateurn
net before yeu a pint of milk with a little
oyster taking a bath in it, and he calIslt
q stew.
The idea of bringing all men on an
equality with each other has always
been a pleasant dream; the law can not
eoualize nan in spite of nature'-''%
penargues.
THE greatest luxury of riches is that
thew enable you to escape so much gcou
advice. The rich are always advising
the poor; but the poor seldom venture
to return the compliment.
THE brave man is net he who feels no
fear, for that were stupid and Irrational
but he whose noble soul its fear subdues
and bravely dares the danger which Ii
shrinks from. --JOdnna Baltic.
True taste is forever growing, learning
reading. worshiping, laying its hand upon
its mouth because it is astonished, caslIs
its shoes from of its feet because IL linus
all ground holy Ruskin.
No man can force the harp OF MS own
individuality into the peoples near,
but every man may play upon the cnotus
of the peoples heart who draws DIS III
spiration from the peoples lnstinS''-
ROSsuth.
TT ia with books as with women, where
a certain plainness of manner and aa,
dress is more engaging than That glsle
of paint and airs and apparel which ma!
dazzle the eye but reaches not the al
fections.-Hum
THERE are two modes of establishing
our reputation; to be praised by honest
men, and to be abused by rogues. lth
best, however, to secure the former, Dc,
cause il will be invariably accompanied
by the latter.
THE Cleveland Herald looks the Amer
lean girl in the mouth and says: asa
pum.cbewer she can be backed again"
the entire world, and this proclivlty mas
raised up in the United States Sn
industry that gives bread to THOUSANDS
JULIA WARD HOWE has met in III,
gland "six noble sisters, all unmarfeu
and living together, the daughters o. au
earl. now deceased, whs refused TO sHoN
any of his younger daughters to mary
before the eldest should find a husoanu'
THERE is no end to injustice, Ale
qheny county, Pa, it is said, Will hsyo
to pay for what the r%ufhansof PittspurHt
did on the night of the great rloI.
must be comforting to the Pittsburgh,
who stood and looked calmly on a, Io
big FIRE, to know that the man VINO live
out in the county must help him p'
for the show.
LAFAYETTE had plenty of patriotism
but no ability whatever. lie mao w
little brains for a soldier, too hes e,
for a politician, and not enough tact W
a diplomatist. He was a failure IN every
thing he attempted was dangerous ol!
to the cause he espoused, and but ior u,
American escapade would be unknown
to history Theirs.
THE German government is lsyus
dewn s~ubterranean telegraph wires :
fast as possible. A line has been alreSu!
opened between Berlin and Mayence'
and it is o intended to join Frank 81
and Strasburg in a similar manner. ~.
cost of these wires is eight to ten ,ime
greater than that of the ordinary abOvs
ground telegraphs; but when oD%
constructed they are not liable 10 ~.
injured by storms or bad weather, anu
would be much more difficult for "a
enemy to destroy them, since he Wous
have to find out exactly where the
buried, and then dig down to find tne~.
THE experiment which was tried ~
year of employing carrier pigeons:
bring early intelligence from the fish'ns
ground, off the Scotch coast, OF them
suits of the nights labor, is again oe.Is
resorted to this season. One Az
h,rds is 70 ban ont in every boat ID ue