The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-02-16
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opinions n fbeif own
A FRfseH tourist, IN " visit Ia fbs
centennial ifst mHmmsf, wfgse hume
~ eficsns I've we'll up t0theif Income
and insure their lives iof Me balaboe
How y H. Louis bankrupt gt iii
Of M, 600 Nv three weeks was fgplaiped
b. the subtraction Of The cfeditofs Nv !
witness, who said that ho wa = "geniip
fellow.
" bpcfhaw true thatthe indiscdmin
ate charity does more harm than good.
but just at present indiscfiminste
charity is not urOlifc enough 10 Justify
the h%Oisting Of storm signals.
A wEsrERs piper, in describing an
accident recently, says, with much can
dor "Dr. Jones was called. and under
his prompt and skillful treatment the
young man died on Wednesday night"
TmB CotLolic Directory for 1877 re.
ports that the number Of Catholic
churches in this country is 5.202j Of
prize Is, 6,297. The estimated Catholic
population is $500, 900.
A WISCONSIN, Zimmerman offers thirty
dollars in cash for "a r~attling good wife
one who is not too high-nosed to grow
fat on bean soup" All females reaching
this point can go through without
change of cars.-Free Press.
TEACHER-Who was the first man?
Brown (head boy)-Washington; he was
first in war, first in--Teacher--No.
no! Adam wa the first man. Brown
Oh! If you're talking of foreigners, |
'spose he was.
HERBERT SPENCER fills out his para
graphs with such words as "endogomy,"
"exogamy," "polygamy," "monogamy,"
"polyandry," "polyguy" aad "agna.
ton" thus enabling imperfect minds to
take in his meaning at a glance.
BRIGHT-EYEs, on being told that her
heart was like a garden, where flowers
grew when she was good and weeds when
she was naughty, rendered it to the ser
want, "When | am naughty haveaa
weed in my stomach"
THE Danbury News says: 1--WE are
all more or less conceited until after we
travel" Is travel, then, a sovereign
for conceit? Dear James, come
west and listen a few hours some busy
morning to the man who has been at
the centennial.
STRANGER, if you must have a pet or
git a young hedgehog--a male
one IL preferable-and keep him housed
n a barrel, and view HIM thru the bung-
lole whenever yu feel lonesum, and if
his don't make yu feel happy, it GER
.ainly amt pets that ais yu.-J0sh
Billings.
A CERTAIN way to keep ants from
tugar barrels, lard pans and preserve
ar, says one who has tried it, is to tie a
tring wet with kerosene around the
can or jar. Repeat the wetting
# the string with the kerosene oil every
ew days.
THE chap had legs like a pair of slate
Small boy yelledto other small
10Y: "Say. Billy, that %feller's got a
leap o courage to risk himself out on
UGH legs as them, this weather"
'Why?1 might freeze, break off,
tick in his body and bleed him to death.
THERE was an %irreverent man at the
Forefathers" dinner in New York who
oasted the Puritan mothers, on the
round that they were compelled to
ndure not only the inconvenience Of a
climate and the horrors Of
lvage warfare, but a worse evil, the
fathers.
On examining some new fiowersin the
arden of the Rev. Sydney Smith a beau
ful. girl who was Of the party exclaimed,
On, Mr.. Smith, this pea will never
1me to perfectionI" Permit me, them"
id he, gently taking her hand and
toward the plant, "To lead per-
to the pea"
TINE, beginning of the year. First
udent Ito second ditto. "Glad to see
Du back" Second student, $50 glad
glad" First student, "Glad
glad, I'm glad" Second student,
80 glad you're glad I'm glad you're
dls II ICdltLlllS ECNIut VI bhO awful
to which they are drifting here
'eaks offthe coliloquy.
THEY were at the art club. She
Yes, indeed, that is a sweet, pretty
cture of the bayfield,, and the girl
king hay, and the children. Oh,
eyre horrid, tumbling about so! And
,er there" He-"But, darling,
III are passing right by Norton's beach
ew. See the fog and" She-"Oh,
| know +; l don't like such pictures.
ley make me think the crimp is all
ming out of my hair"
AFTER the battle of Chattanooga the
rgeons made several missions in the
|. of a soldier who had been wounded
the knee by a musket ball. Out of
thence at last, the soldier exclaimed
Why are you carving me up SOP
We're trying to find the ball" answer-
a surgeon. "Why didn't you ask for
/, ball in the first placer" Indignantly
ed the soldier; 'here it is in my
The late Jedediah Bushnell, pastor of
Congregational church at Cornwall,
=, one OF the wisest and best of men,
an occasion of some disturbance made
the crying of an infant, paused in his
mon to say; "Mothers, don't stay
Nv from tie house of God because
/ have no one to leave your babies
h. Bring them with you, and if they
now and then it will not distress or
compose me half as much as to see
II places vacant"
HERE is a little Turkish romance in
nutshell. The sister of the sultan
rried Mahmoud Bey, and died dur
The honeymoon, of lung disease. The
y in the case was twenty-nine years
had been six years a widow, was