The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-07-13
Violets won't grow in Chicago.

! Geraniums and tube roses love to blow
r in Louisville. wv"
The gladiola and the fuchsia tall i,
over in Memphis. !"
The hcllyhock is only happy in The
front yards of st. Louis.
The century plant doesn't like Phil.
de'phia, but manages to grow there.
Seaweed dies oD approaching Cinc;r.
natl, and southern vegetation withers al
Somerset.
Russians, Poles, Servians and Ron.
manians have little eyes.
Lager is so lively that it comes in hon,
whenever you call fov it.
The British national penny bank an.
nounces 100000 deposits.
The printing of one and two dolIs,
notes by the United States government
has ceased.
The English Quakers have become re-.
duced to about 1900 persons, from
$4,000 a century ago.
There are in this country nineteer
libraries containing each Sc, 1000 or more
volumes.
The fortune-hunter of our dav doe,
not dig in the mines. He marries the
widow of a California forty-niner.
Fig culture in Florida, which has been
SO greatly neglected during the war, il
now attracting the attention of %capital.
lists.
A quart of peaches for every man, wo.
man and child in the country, is the esti.
mated crop from Delaware alone this
season.
The military authorities in Paris arc
enumerating the horses and mules which
could, in case of need, be pressed into
their service.
North Carolina has paid for fertilizers
within the last twelve months SO, 900 OOO.
Georgia $4,000, 900; Virginia probably
more.
A twenty-four pound turtle recently
captured near Norfolk, Conn, was strong
enough to move about from place to place
while bearing on his back a man weigh.
ing two hundred pounds.
1t has been discovered in Paris that
- $50 hhOb
the little yellow marks on certain brands
of Havana cigars, which cause them TO
10 s,e"tly Pllzeu oy smokers are created
W Ine SPrihkiihg OF acie'
While Mr.. Adam Miller was blowing
his farm in Undertook, he brought to
the surface a large turtle, which was
alive, and had marked on its she'll,
. May 80, 1881, H. A. D."
Thirty years ago a Shebsygan Wis,
'chool teacher struck a boy on the head
WIN a ruler. one DAY recently the boy,
10" d man Oh lorty, met the teacher and
,ouhueu him' Inc wheel OF time never
'oPs'
They tell us of Kentucky schoolmas-
who had his wife for a pupil, and
puma IL necessary to chastlse her one
NeSC Gay a notlce appeared on
ne uoor' saying: school closed for
week schoolmaster IS ILL.,"
To-day Berlin is covered with the
'recks of speculative credulity. Many
| the milllenarles OF a few years ago are
l u state Verglng on absolute poverty.
'Vef production and W. speculation
ave caused the Crisis
Glass bottles were first made in En-.
land about 1868. The art of making
't,ies ana orlnking glasses was known
the Romans eighteen hundred years
g, as they nave been found among the
ms 81 fompei.
Among the curiosities of the Columbia,
. Y, college library are the old arm
air in which Gov. DE Witt Clinton
in FranIiin was want ~ 10 WIZ" VII penJ"'
"A young gentleman VINO Ventured
EST Ill the preValllng 1ashion OF neck
,ar, was lmmeulately utilized by the
lIi''y CHANGERS, VINO smea'ed his collar
IN coal Tar ana SET MIN up as a grass
Tho E+tla +oua ~ coloa, NJ n iii
y thomsond ;nhoh;t"ntd w., WIN
4 ssnt 40 narlnt J,~;n@ h"o saVneieu
,rs 49, th"n tLrao IN ono PaaV gniee
CO., lily, H.ihtron PounuS Vi
nna n.nrI, LIE uGino satmncIoiS /"
' niiiii'n uoiiai''
DER concern in Ohio has an order FIR
tons of paner for csrtridges far T,r-
,. and a Pennsylvania town il sbinn;nc
hundred tons of shelter To Eurane as
as it can be made, for CARTRIDGES
inc Of tho newsnonor. +o,1a -
,se I;fs was Sowed br JI,t o. = nsn
ried in his pocket. A pistol. bullet
d at him lodged in the tobacco, and
man was unframed, Moral: If you
tobacco, don't take it out of your
ket.
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ilo HI onbsrd o,ooi I" oi nose; NJ
lie ~iiouperuoh, mas won a consider
leville to S~trasbourq and back, 244
say 1915 miles, within twenty