The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1878-05-03
ALL SORTS

make one dollar.- \. o. Picayune.
The more sets of directorsa rail
road has the worse the road Is gov
erned.--N. q. Picayune.
DO editors ever do wrong "No."
What do they dos ''They do write"
Graphic.
A young lady r%ebukingly asks
us: (which is worse, to lace tight,
or to get tightg' We give it up
we never laced Congratlolalls'.
The democratic party is generous
enough to believe that 1t IA spare
Ben Butler better than We CALL
Washington Republican.
The st. Louis belle produces an
aristocratic iustep by slipping into
her shoe "a copy Of the new city dl-
rectory.-St. Louis Post.
The pen is mightier than the
sword, but the humble paste-pot is
greater than he that taheth ii city.
st. Louis Post.
No, thank you, we don't need n
correspondent at Paris this year.
We pay Il young man III the office
SO IL week to write European let
tcrS.-Chlcago Tribune.
Prices are not very much down.
The sleeping Il porter Is still
backing boots for twenty five cents
IA pair, and making nO charge for
his socIety.-Courier journal.
The coast of Florida has but one
Mosquito lulet, but the interior Of
Florida has IL mosquito bar for
every bedstead, And the villains
still pursue them.-Eloridian.
If modern justice would take the
scales off her eyes and use those III
her hand 1t would be better for her
cause. No charge.-Philadelphla
Press.
Conkling denies, McCoskrey de-
MES, Beecher denies, and it is an
equal chance that Mrs. Tilton will
again deny her contession.-N. ..
Times.
a boy will make pretty good
time when he's sent down town Tor
raiSinS; but give him IA coal oil can,
aud you'd better put II mark Oh him
so as to identity him when he comes
home.-Butfalo Express.
a marriage notice ~ not conSiG.
cred complete without the name OF
the officiating clergyman; and Yet
custom sanctions the publication
of death notices without any men
ton being made of the doctors
name.-N. o. Picayune.
If President Hayes would stand
up and shout "By the Eternap once
in a while, under ample provoca-
ton, in the style Of General Jack
son, he would crafty his friends if
he did not c0nfound his enemies
Herald and Presbyter.
The end crowns the work. Laura
with novel; "Oh, ii this tale were
only trne, and | were the heroine
Kate: What! with herpersecutionS,
her misery =! Laura: All, but then,
dear, remember she does get Il hus-
band after all-Puck.
The president has a right to re-
joice ove Rhode Island. We don't
know where Rhode Island is, to be
sure; but it is a great pity If Il man
can't rejoice over something once
in ii while.-OhiO State Journal.
There is a pleasing variety in the
foreign war news. One day the
cloud is as small us a New Or
leans lady's slipper, and the next it
has grown AS large as a Chicago
glove. In other words, it is
one day scarcely perceptible, and
the next day threateningly large
n. O.. Times.
Spring poetry: Her cheeks were
very ruddy, and the streets were
awful muddy, and she shrieked
sob, thunder" as her feet
flew out from under. 1t was really
very shocking, for she showed her
stocking.-Boston Adver-
tiSer.
The other day, up in Minnesota,
1 circus Joke died at the advanced
age of II hundred years. This,
We believe, is rather old even for a
joke, very few of which, even
n this country, have attained a
greater age than mnety-siX years.
Buffalo Express.
Alex. H.. Stephens went to sleep
II his chair the other day, and
would have been swept out by the
anitor if the stirring of the air
hadn't caused him to rise and float
lround where the sun Shone on his
buttons and thus revealed
lis presence.-Atlanta Constitu-
ion.
They were sitting together, and
re was arduouSly thinking what to
.ay, when he finally burst out in ,
his manner: ain this land of noble +
achievements and undying glory, ,
Why is it that women do not come
the front and climb the ladder
# fame ~ 81 suppose it is on ac-
cunt of their pull backs" said she, =
her apron-strings. = Pitts
iurg Leader.
Editing Il paragraph column =
bserves the Elmira Gazette, sis +
Ike riding the trick mule in IL cir
us--everybody thinks it's an easy
Do until they get Straddle of the
back" The Globe Democrat =
IAN could ride the trick mule.
'irst, he would overawe it by a dis