The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-03-30
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CARpfvAt red p%afasols will be worn
next summer, and u will Ne difficult ~
distinguish = woman from q meteor three
blocks away Hnrk(yG
MA-shCnrsErrs pays $4,000 q year
for the encouragement Of h0rsc.trottiDg,
dividing the money among thirty ~.
called agricultural societies.
WHESa Vermont editor gets up and
refers to q Wisconsin man asa Wisc0n-
sinner, the latter simply teleRnphs back
that he wants nothing more TO do with a
NermUntstrOsity.
DUCKS, geese and chickens are ship
ped from Tennessee to supply the Jack.
sonvillc, Fla, market. Ono thousand
and seven hundred head we're shipped in
one day.
4 YOUNG Madagascar brought into
France inquired il all Freuchmen are
doctors. Asked why he thought so, he
replied that they all took his hand and
asked after his health.
"AT Florence, Arizona, there isa res
taurant kept by a Chinaman, with a
Mexican wife, a negro cook, and a white
woman for 4 waiter" Hash with any
hind of hair-dressing promptly served.
THE peach buds arc uniniured, the
wheat is all right, cotton is fine, tobacco
promises well, and if we knew who would
be elected in 1880, we'd feel like going
ahead and laying out capitalized
York Nail.
SAN FRANCISCO has over thirty mil
lionaires. One of them, Peter Donohue,
or "Uncle Peter" as he il called, owns a
railroad ninety miles in length, built
with his own money, and has not Il
penny OF stock or bond out.
WHILE we are erecting tombstopes
over dead martyrs and placing laurel
wreaths OF the brows of living heroes,
don't let's forget to drop a tear on the
grave of the man who conceived the idea
of putting a potato on the snout of a
Kerosene can.
IT was a refreshing variation from the
general run of speeches at temperance
meetings when a man got up in Pitts.
burg the other day and remarked:
Ladies and gentlemen, to bring my
nose to this state ofsblooming perfection
has cost me at the least 100000"
WHEN Mr.. Eyarts writes a sentence,
he rolls it up like a bedchord, and winds
the end q half dozen times around the
middle, and then tucks il underneath, so
that nobody can find it, and it won't I'M
ravel. 1t is as simple and easy to under
stand as sliding down the ragged edge
of a cross-cut saw.
THE Keyof the Gulf says: The sponge
fleet, under the direction Of the admiral,
have returned into port with a full cargo
of the best sponge seen for years. Some
six thousand dollars was paid out last
week, and perhaps double that amount
is nearly ready for sale. Admiral Skel-
is the only master who can detect
the sex among spongcs.
GALVESTON (Texas) News: 4. Mil
lett, of Baylor county, with bis brother,
own three or four ranches. on which they
have about 5000 head of cattle. Cattle
are in fine condition, and prices range
from six dollars to twelve dollars, herds
in round lots at about ten dollars
a head. Land is worth from one dollar
to two dollars an acre, and the best has
been taken up or located. The
country is beautiful, and ab0unds with
game.
CARDINAL MANNING has given notice
to his clergy that no music taken OF
from the theatre, the opera or
concerts, OF which has become familiar
through secular usage, shall be sung at
mass or benediction or used as voluntaries
Or interludes, and that the music used
be as congregational as possible.
He has also banished ladies from his
choirs so thoroughly that not a female
voice is heard in any of the churches
under his jurisdiction.
AFTER all the talk about "frivolous
md immoral" France, it appears that
there are mere illcgitimate births in
Germany. In France the illegitimate
births are but seventy in one thousand,
in Prussia, out of one thousand
one hundred and twenty are H.
legitimate; and in southern Germany
.wo hundred out of one thousand are
Legitimate. In lower Austria this pro.
runs up to two hundred and five,
md in Corinthia nearly every other
hid is illegitimate.