The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-10
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

dleu recently Nv reeusDurPf, WIS, aged
seventy. If John Browns soul ia stilI
marching en," that of his brother vii,
have to move lively to overtake it.
A SUDDEN draught of hot air nasuoa
through a cotton field and peach orchard
in western Texas a few days ago, scorcb.
ing and killing every green thing /,
touched for a space of one hundred yards
long.
ANOTHER day has come and gono
leaving us all older and wiser, but as vet
no communications have been receiysj
indicating that any one has discovered a
man who can drink out of a spring with.
out getting the end of his nose wet.
SELLERS of liquorsin Oregon are not re.
quired, under a new law, to be licensed
but every drinker must pay So a wear for
a license, and whoever sells to an mil.
censed person may be imprisoned. The
names of p%rocurers of licenses are to be
published every six months.
WHAT are you driving at NOWADAYS,
PATTI Faith, said Pat, "Im hard AT
work" "That's good, Pat, what are
you doing? "Well, Pm laborinp To
increase the public interest in me-"
How is that, me boy ?" "Well, We
see, Mike, Pm Just getting in debt
wherever l can all about the town"
A MINISTER going to visit one of his
sick parishioners, asked him how he
rested during the night. cob, won.
drously ill, sir" ne replied, for mine
eyes have not come together these three
nights" What is the reason OF that p"
said the other. "Alas sir" said he,
" because my nose was betwixt them"
A HoLLIDAYsBURG man recently oh
tanned a divorce and declared "Once
more | stand erect, and assume the god.
like attitude of freedom and a single
man." Then he went home, got into
bed, and in an hour woke up with a bad
case of cholera morbus, yelling "Quick,
Maria Quick Get a mustard plaster
or I'm a goner."
MERRTLLA, the grocer, tells us thatthe
grocery business is not what it used to.
1t is a hundred times more exacting now.
He says this explaining to every Gus.
toner why tbs war in Europe affects the
price of a broom, mackerel, or a paper of
cornstarch-is what is sapping away his
life and covering the future with a pail.
-Danbmy Ne,cs.
A CHICAGO young mans wife enter
tanned him with selections from Wagner,
after which he expressed himself as
resigned to 90 to bed, where he slept
very soundly. Toward midnight cats
assembled in the back yard and yowled
frightfully, The sleeper did not get up
and throw bootjacks at them, but turned
on one elbow and whispered in hisdreams,
"Sing it once more, Elvira sing it once
more"
FROM 1900 to 1870 the population of
England increased from ten to twenty
eight millions, and that Of the United
States from five to thirty-eight millions,
and it is moderately estimated that among
civilized nations the population now
doubles in each period of fiIty-four years.
The advances made in hygienic science,
and the comparative mildness of modern
warfare are mainly responsible for this
rapid increase, trightful in view of future
consequences. 1t is a subject of not a
anxiety among provident English
men to-day, how the tifty-six millions OF
which, in a short half century,
will be craving for food within the narrow
of that country, can be satisfacto-
rily filled, and it is enough to keep a phil
anthropist perplexedly awake o nights,
to reflect on the difficulty of feeding the
population of the earth a couple of
thousand years hence.
THERE is q boy hero now at the Hot
Springs in Arkansas. He lived in Allan
ia, Ga, and was taken out of the streets
squalid and starving, and suffering
from an hereditary and incurable disease
transmitted to him by vicious parents.
He was obliged to suffer the amputation
Of one of his feet; but, as soon as he
recovered, he signified his determination
to depend on charity no longer. Having
received $10as capital by borrowing from
The agent of the Benevolent Home, he
soon made money with which to pay this
back and put a snug $3.50 in bank. Then
disease overlook him again his remain
ing foot went like the first one his
money was soon spent, and he was
reduced to deaths door. As o o as he
recovered, he went bravely to work, and
repaid all his benefactors. Now he has
zone to the Hot Springs for his health
with some money in his pocket, and an
lnconquerable will never to submit or
yield even to circumstances.
EACH man is created associable being,
md we find him to-day without stop
)ing to inquire into the why and where
ore of said creation) an atom of a vast
ocial system. As suchhe has his duties
md responsibilities. They are multiplex
md varied, and upon the manner in
which he discharges them depend his
'wn happiness, the happiness of those
related to him, and, to some ex.
ent, the peace and comfort of society in
In this wonderful social com
,act, it would seem that one individual
5 of little significance. 1t would like
wise seem that n pipe or reed or key
# the grand organs which make melody
n u churches from week to week
night be spared, without the loss being
cit, and yet their disarrangement would
ave the most serious effect upon the
esired harmonies. 1t is thus in the
fe of men. A single person can create
Dcial discord. whether he has an ad'
lifted influence or not but there are
cry few men who do not posses a direct
lluence to some degree, aud while this
the case there is no use of attempting
, escape responsibility to avoid our
Ioral obligations our duties to our fel'