The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-06-22
PITH AND POINT.

A CROSS dog will make the top Of a
hemlock board fence soft ~ downy pill.
lows.
A YoUNGsTER says if he can't have
fireworks on the Fourth, perhaps when
he dies he can touch off the northern
lights.
THE New York beauties walk our
with their pet dogs attached to strings,
and foreigners wonder at the number of
blind ladies going about.
"THE man who lifts his hand against
a woman save in kindness" lives in San
Francisco. The edited a news
paper, and had the misfortune TO offend
the mar by some journalistic utterance,
PEOPLE who may be malicious are
circulating stories to the effect that some
| of the springs at Saratoga are bogus, and
allege that the owners 20 there every
morning and throw in salt, old iron,
tomato cans and tenpenny nails, OF
curse this is very important--if true.
JOHN BULL, and the rest of the great
powers around the table, to the Gar:
"Your imperial majesty, what part of
the Turkey do you prefer ?" The Car;
" If you please, a couple of sides, a pair
of wings, a brace of legs, the neck, breast,
thighs and tail-piece will do, but no
sauce" Table in an uproar, especially
on the part of John Bull.
IT is estimated that at least 300,0 900
pilgrims will visit Rome during the
Jubilee of the fitch year of the episco.
pate of the pope. 1t is supposed that
each of those pilgrims will give to the
pope at least $40, making a total of3,-
600, 900. Add to this the amount that
will be sent by the churches, and the
sum may reach $4,000, 900.
BLUEglass is on the wane A Brooklyn
man, with weak eyes, tried blue glass
spectacles as a remedy. The result was
that his eyes, already too weak to be
used in ordinary circumstances, were
exposed to a terrible glare and heat,
which in less than a week destroyed the
eyesight of the sufferer. He is now
totally blind.
The ~luphonious name of the first
native lady who, after a successful matric-
ulation examination, has entered an
Indian university, is Miss Chandramukhi
Bose. The Calcutta papers say that
there is a great stir in the Bengal Ian
anas. Miss Bose is pretty, with an olive
complexion, dark hair and eyes, is young,
has ripe, full lips and pearly teeth, and
her pet study is the biennial theorem.
The lamblike name in which the
Chicago and Cincinnati papers refer to
their city contemporaries is being emu
lated in the far east. The Toxic Times
has been called names by the Japan
Mail, and retorts by publishing the fol
lowing: "Wanted-At the office of the
Japan Mail, a copy Of Roget's Thesaurus,
to enable that Journal to diversity its
epithets."
The opponents of the dummy engine
as a tractor on the street railway are
rejoicing over the fact that a girl has
been run over by a dummy in Worcester,
Massachusetts,, and seriously injured.
There have been several persons killed
by cars drawn by horses only yet we
have not heard of any widespread de-
mand that cars shall therefore be drawn
only by men.
A MINISTER in Augusta, Me-, bss a
ubItlul tullu vi lohl NNoin' IL"
father expects he will be a minister, and
the lad has talked encouragingly until
the first warn day of the season, when
he gave signs of having fallen from grace,
for the devoted child came to his father
and said, Papa, I'm not agoin' to be a
minister" "What do you think of
doing?" asked the father. "Goin' to
drive an iCe-Cart."
LYDIA SHERMAN showed great cum
nirg in planning and executing her
but her presence of mind seemed
desert her when outside the Jail walls.
She registered in a Providence hotel as
Mrs. Brown, of Philadelphia" After
wards she told her landlady that her
lame was Moore" and that she was a
widow with six children. She showed a
napkin ring on which was engraved
Lydia" and volunteered the informa-
ion that " That doesn't say Lydia Sher-
man," but the police thought it did.
He started out in the morning a happy
10Y. When at dusk he returned with
loody clothing, a broken finger, a
prained ankle and a big cut in his lower
Ip, his fond mother asked him in alarm
if he had been through a threshing
lachine or had been the unfortunate
ictim of a railroad smash-up." "Neith-
r, mother" replied the youth, and then
riumphantly, "Never mind me, ma. |
only been playing base ball. Our
de, the Lilies waxed the No Names
e%autifully score, 10 to s." and then he
Ink into a confused heap on the parlor
,rpet revived a little, lifted up his
cad, muttered, Jim, put that to first
be thundering quick about it" then
isped and expired"