The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-09-14

The great objection to Goldfish is its
foreign accent.
The average baseball game is is made
up on two paris base hits to eight parts
arnica.
The women of America firmly believe
that the coming man is " the man under
the bed.
LIST year, in England, 1,249 persons
were killed, on the railroads, while 1923
were killed by carriages and wagons.
THE young lady who will answer the
advertisement OF the skulk who wants
ga female correspondent " must either
lack sense or have no character to lose.
GEN. CUsTER's funeral will take place
at West Point some time in October,
when his old army friends can be pres
emit. Until then his body will remain in
the receiving.vault of Poughkeepsie
cemetery.
"Men are drowned by raising their
arms above water" says the Scientific
Monthly. Bosh If man can't swim
he'll go down with his arms under water
as o o as any other way. Dry land is
an awful safe place.
AUNTIE and little''king were gathering
wild flowers; auntie could not find many,
and was going to return to the house, when
King cried out, gleefully go, auntie,
come over where | am they're awful
thick here; just as thick as your head"
She went.
THIS is,the way the "swells" pass their
time at Newport An early drive;
breakfast at 9; after breakfast comes the
sea.bath then croquet or some other
game on the lawn; following this
the newspaper reading, and then the nap
and the dinner, and finally the dance.
PARENTS should carefully guard
agaist allowing the yellow jasmine to get
into the hands of their children. The
plant, root and flower are deadly poisons,
and numbers of deaths among children,
some quite recently, have occurred from
eating the poisonous article Wdshtng'
ton ~, c. Press.
A TRAVELLER says Russian babies are
never washed during their first year. In
America the boy babies are washed regu-
laily by their parents until they are
about seven years old. From that time
until they are thirteen they may get
their feet wet once in a while 10y some
untOward accident, but their faces are
rigidly treated on the Russian system.
SoLIIQUY by General Howard " Yes,
the noble Indian is fast fading away.
Step by step he has been driven toward
the western sun. | find it extremely
difficult to find him even now. Soon the
last survivor will stand high upon the
western horizon, and, pausing to wipe a
tear from his bronzed cheek-Hark
Methinks | hear Chief Joseph at work
stealing horses again.-ROcheSter Demo.
crat.
In the state of Mississippi there are
ninety-two newspapers whose combined
circulation Is about 10000. In Arkansas
there are seventy newspapers, whose
combined circulation is about $4,000.
Mississippi has 82S, 900 people so that it
clrculates one newspaper to every four
teen souls. Arkansas has $4,000 people,
which gives it, in proportion to its
population, about the same newspaper
circulation as Mississippi.
SPLURGEdoes mt pay. Spready weddings
generally end in poverty and divorce,
and great big parties and such like things,
when given in the spirit of" highfalutin,"
may generally be pointed to as q pro-
phetic signboard, indicating ultimate
bankruptcy. People of solid wealth
and real good sense do not do over much
OF that sort of thing for the mere sake of
. making a spread" Look around among
your acquaintance, and see if they de-
Chicago Journal.
He invited her to lunch, and she, be.
ing a beautiful young lady, went. She
read the bill of fare behind her sweet
little fan, and whispered in zephyry &C.
,ents "Woodcock on toast" AT this
announcement it flashed upon his mind
hat his assets we're but seventy-fve
,ents. Something must be done. Cor
lelia, do you know what awoodcock is?'
lie asked. "No, Mr.. Spinks," she an
wered. "Well, then, my DEAR" said
lie, "it is as big as a halibut." go, good
gracious I" exclaimed the charming
J%ornelia, "then bring me some pork and
Spinks winked exultingly at
he waiter, and the waiter winked know