The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-10-12
& AND FANCIES.

deliberately ny MI 'nP"'''N maui
WADE HAMPTON can call over 5000
citizens of South Carolina by name.
The question as to who is the Siekest
Man of the east is now in much doubt.
Ir is a truism not to be gainsaid that
truth is more Of a stranger than fiction.
LITTLE expenses, like mice in a barn,
when they are many, make a great waste.
SINCE woman must die il is perhaps
we'll enough to wind up obituary notices
in Oregon stvle, viz; "She was forty,
verv GOOD looking and always did her
own work.
THE latest novelty in children's toysis
an air.top, which consists OF a flying
wheel. made TO spin through the air To
the height Of fifty feet by rapidly UNI
winding a string.
CHOW is it that you have never kin.
died a fame in any mans heart I" asked
a rich lady of her portionless niece 81
suppose, aunt, it is because fu not a
good match" meekly replied the poor
niece.
"Tsr funeral was all that could be
exnected.n saws an aged lady who looks
mon these events with an artistic eye.
"The display of flowers was grand, and
| tbe widow went like a born angel
| Rochester Democrat.
THE other day a little girl of three and
a half, while playing with her Aunt
Alice's ring, lost it. Both looked for it
some time without finding it, when, in
despair, the little one said; Come,
Aunt Ii, let's cry!"
"MusING on the infinite, en- = sad a
facetious chap to Il MISUNDERSTANDING
;ndividnaI who was walking along the
road.side with bowed head and serious
countenance. "Well, yes; SAINT 'hlng-
thinking of my debts"
THE humorist of the New York lines
sagely remarks; ono wise nan argues
with a scientific person. The Latter can
always overwheim him with u,saVory
scientific terms, to the use OF which ITO
self-respecting man can descend"
"WHAT do you cal. a large amount,
Mr.. Tweed ?" asked one OF the eXamin"
ing New York aldermen. AT the
time, " replied Mr.. Tweed, u call
So, 900 a large amount now l call any
thing from s. up a large amount.
A GuILELEss boy was deluded the
other day into picking up the handle ola
p~aIyanic battery. He yelled Justify until
thew ''shut her off," and in describing
his sensations he said he could taste green
persimmons all over himself Burtng'oa
HaOkeye.
EVEN the most refined and polished OF
men seldom conceal any Of the sacribceS
thew make, or what it costs to make
them, This is reserved for women, ana
is one of the many proofs they give OF
+ their superiority in all matters oil @nec-
ton and delicacy.-' Wlt'aoH.
LET your sleep be necessary and
| bealthful, not idle and expensive Of time
} beyond the needs and c~onveniences OF
s nature and sometimes be curious to see
t the preparation which the sun makes
when he is coming forth from his cham
bers of the east.-Jeremy Taylor.
POVERTY, except where there is an
actual want of food and raiment, Is o
thing much more imaginary than real.
The shame of poverty~-the shame OF be,
: ing thought poor--is a great and fatal
weakness, though arising in this country
from the fashion of the times themselves
---CObbet.
GALL babies born in the Oneida com.
d munity are at once taken from their
e mothers and given to some other woman
0 to nurse, and the babies are changer
e around 50 that no neither ever rears, OF
even knows, her W child" Remarks
u by various mothers outside OF the com
9 munlty "!!!!!??????!!!!!!"
Z A S]pIRIrUALIsT doctor of Philadelphia
reports "a death-bed where those assem-
J bled, while singing a hymn, had thelT
spiritual eyes opened and saw the dead
a brother issuing out of his mortal tehe,,
+ ment, joining his wife and child ana
!, floating away" If the dead brother lac
!, been a man of two or three dead wives,
. the scene would doubtless have beer
much more interesting. The problem a.
to whether female spirits ever pull nan
a might then have been settled forever.
e TALKING through a mans body is the
latest achievement of the telephone. Inc
h wires were cut and the man held the
v ends in hishands. The current was pro-
e duced by the magnets of the telephone
Ne and conversation was carried on. Inc
k experiment was continued until five men
1t were put ia the gap to complete the CIR
r Gle, the resistance then being equal t
d twenty-five times the length of the Az
lantic cable.
d AN insurance adiuster went TO see 9
man whose house had been destroyed by
fire. Said adjuster Chow did thii
thing happen? House-owner: Don
i know it's 3 mystery" Adluster
u "Well, | know" HORSEPOWER let
have it that's Just what I'd like to AN.
out" Adiuster: cts friction
House-owner: "Friction 3? Friction
'r What's that ?" Adjuster: Why fric
ton is the result Of rubbing a Thousand
dollar policy on a six-hundred-doll''
house?"
On the Goth of August a curious cas-
of poisoning by nicotine occurred Il
Turin. Giovanni Deloges, aged seven
teen, visited that city in compliance VIII
an invitation from his uncle. Ate
dining he Joined his uncle and severa
friends in the room allotted him durlns
his stay in Turin. There they dram
light wine and smoked continually until
the early hours, When the company
separated he did not cease smoking untl
nearly overcome by sleep. His room wa,
completely impregnated with smoke, anC
the young man, suffocated by the ex,
c~essive quantity of nicotine he haS
inhaled, never woke again, although
every effort was made TO revive him
DIR. Tester, of Turin, was Of the OPINION
that death was the result OF poisohinE
by nicotine.