The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-09-07

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"MIss c." said a gentleman, one
evening, "why are ladies 80 FOND of off.
GERS pr "How stupid" replied Miss
C; "is it not natural and proper
that a lady should like a good offer, sir ??
RUSTIC: Goodbye, Betty, we bees
going for good" Getty: "Then mind
thee don't miss the way. 1t be the furst
t,,,,e thce's ever been on that road, Pm
thinking"
q see you have a new girl"
uousoLeaner-"I took her a week on
trial" Vi,itor-"And how do you like
her ?" Housekeeper-" The triaP' is al
most more than | car bea,.
THERE is a lady at Eureka, .'alIiornla,
who, a dozen years, ago, was MANU- In
a two thousand dollar dress. Now Aoe
takes in washing to support a drunken
husband and three pairs of twins.
A YOUNG man who is evidently with
out pride OF ancestry or hope of prosper
ity is constructing a raft on which he ex-
poets next month to ride over Niagara
Falls. The raft is being constructed on
scientific principles, but no doubt the
young man will be drowned in the cont
mon way.
"WHY is this called Jacobs LADDER"
asked a charming woman, as she and he
we're going up the steepest part OF the
Mount Washington railway. Because"
he replied, with a look that emphasized
his words, "there are angels ascending
and defending occasionally" lie
squeezed her hand.
CONCERNING the word Gladly" a wo-
man writes as follows: eff | belonged
to the medical persuasion and an editor
called me a lady doctor, | would per
scribe for that literary light gratuitously,
and administer a dose which would
purify him of his vulgar gentility.'
The marked decline of los. 00O, 900
pounds in the importation of East In
dian cotton into Great Britain during
the years of 1875 and 1876 respectively,
shows clearly that all hope of successful
rivalry with the south must be aban-
doned. Since 1866 IIindostan has ceased
to be a dangerous competitor.
DURING July there were thirty.two
failures in New York city, in which the
liabilities amounted to S2,07l, 4SS. In
addition there were assignments and adju-
dication in bankruptcy which swell the
total Indebtedness to about $500, 0OO.
The number of failures were the same as
for June, and the liabilities are 100000
greater.
So very young.--Time-three weeks
after marriage. Loving wife; Those
accounts of the wa, love, are so I'M
trustworthy, they contradict each other
like | don't know what" Sweet hus-
band: 81 do; they contradict each
other like a wife does her husband. Il,
W; (tenderly); cor a husband does his
wife, dear"
A CONTEMPORARY explains "Why
young men leave the farm " but he
doesn't say that many of them leave it
to see their girls in a neighboring village,
and Others leave it TO go to the city to
see the elephant" and come back with
a headache ten feet in diameter and their
pocket-books minus 1926 or so.--Norres-
torn Herald.
DIED recently in London a plucky and
witty French lady, who, a few days after
the revolution of 1913, ventured to drive
out in a carriage with armerial bearings.
She was hooted and mobhed, and one
patriot, taking q handful OF filth from the
gutter, smeared it over the panels, cry.
ing; That's for your arms" "Ah,
you have substituted your" said the
lady.
WE still hear occasionally of the ten
der, passionate, worshiping lover, who
lies in ambush for the idol of his hearts
affections, and cuts her head Off with a
Ratchet because she will not marry him.
1t Is getting to be safer for a girl to shoot
a man when he proposes, than to reject
him. And that possibility makes it very
unpleasant for the man when he "askS."
--HaWkeye,
WHAT a picnic would be without bor'
is a matter of conjecture, as there
has been a way to find out. A
hornet is not UNCONVENTIONAL. 1t goes
to all p%icnics. And it is a desirable adj
iunct. 1t tends to modify greediness,
besides adding largely to the enthusiasm
Five hornets at a small table will do more
level social distinctions and to promote
social intercourse than an awful disaster
a village. -Danbury News.
IT is enough to make every patriotic
American join the hoodlums in their
'ttack upon the Chinese quarter, to hear
b tinquisitive geographers have recently
Ound two rivers in China, each of which
s nearly a thousand miles longer than
'ur great Mississippi. 1t does seem as ii
o-called scientific observers might be
bout better business than bringing hui
initiation on the noble Caucasian race.
civilization a failure?
THE San Diego (Cal.) World says:
San Diego has a young gentleman tele,,
operator, who, after repeated
for a young lady operator in an,
,ther office, at last got a response, and
hen, click, click, click (fortissimo( he
elegraphed back to her vehemently
have been trying to get you for the
asst half hour ! In a moment the fol'
owing spicy reply came tripping back 10
i'm over the wires from the telegraphlc
That's nothing; there is q
Dung man here who has been trying the
lme thing for the last two years, and he
asn't got me yet"
WHY should we import millions of dol
rs worth of figs and almonds while the
states could readily supply our
Is it for the want of a proper
nowledge of their culture and lack oil
lergy, OF scarcity of labor? OF course
is not for us up here in the north, the
ural New Yorker says. to answer these
le%stions, as apples, peaches and pears
niliar fruits, mainly occupy III atten-
On. But it does seem to us that the
ople of the southern states ought TO be
lie to supply us such easily raised fruits
frr md almnnhs "a nhonnlr as they