The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1885-06-05
NEWS In BRIEF.

Key West cigar makers will
cease work for "a time, because OF
Overprodnction.
There is no truth in the report.
ed appearance of a case of cholera
at Queeec.
TOOthpick factories in the heart
of Maine are running night and
day.
Secretary Whitney will allow
the wives of naval officers to ac-
company their husbands.
AZ. Lowell is the only American
who has slept at Windsor Castle as
the guest OF loyalty.
Sunset Cox admits that the prof.
it Oh his books have never been so
great as to "%seriOusly annoy" him.
j. Randolph Tucker, OF Virginia.
has qualified as guardian of the
children of the late President Gar
field.
Capt. Robert w. Andrews, none.
genarian of Sumter, S. G. who walk.
ed to Bosom last summer, is now
on the tramp to Charleston.
The Salvation Army are uniting
up barracks at Plymouth, Lean
ingtOn and Manchester, Eng, at an
aggregate expense OF $1,000
Ex-PreSident Grant, Hayes aud
Arthur we're in New York at one
time last week-an Unprecedented
conjunction OF political planets.
The King of Denmark has Issued
a proclamation prohibiting the pos.
session of fire arms by any person
without special permission.
Ex-Governor Curtin, of Pennsyl.
v%ania, says he spent $4,000 a year
lore than his salary while he was
United States minister at st. Pc.
tersburg.
The average rate of speed on the
new train from New York and
Chicago on the New York Central
Railroad is a trihe over thirty-nine
miles an hour.
Chicago factories are said to en-.
ploy 5000 children under fifteen
years of age, 1000 of whom are
girls. All are compelled to work
from ten to fourteen hours per day.
1t is said that more than 60,000
stamps I found every year loose
in the letter boxes of the United
Kingdom, indicating the lack of
mucilage OF the lack of wettiug.
NJ. Gounod has received from the
art.luving Frenck Government
$4,000 in honor of the fiflieth per
Torrance of his ''Tribut de Zamo.
ra," at the Grand Opera House
President Eliot, Of Harvard, sug-
gests French, German, English
history aud political economy as
the proper studies for young men
hO intend to become journalists.
The six leading Evangelical de.
nominations in Chicago have o.
churches, with %, 7I5 members, 40,
l21 Sunday. school scholars aud
lhirty.three missions.
Nearly so per cent. of the sol
lirrs ia the Russian army are una
bic to read or write, and this is be
irved to he the proportion OF Hit
in the population Of the En-
Iire.
An experiment designed to test
he efficiency of crude petroleum
q steam g~eneratorin fire engines
.Ook place in Brooklyn recently,
Iut sixty pounds pressure was the
highest that could be maintained.
EG-United States Senator Edgar ,
is dying at his home in
ireensburg, Pa, from the effects
cancer, which began in his ,
mouth and has extended to his
hrOat.
AT Il recent reception by the
Cabinet Club of Chicago to pion- .
'er settlers, 200 old settlers who I
lad been residents of the place pr.
II 10 the year 1910 we're in atten :
The new building OF the New
FORK Cotton Exchange cost $1,000, !,
aud the offices in it are expect.
d TO rent for $l2O, 900, 900 a wear. q
The new Produce Exchange Bull I
hug cost $S,17S,642. !
The first shipment of red slate {
yer made to Europe was sent |
Tithin a week or so from North !,
n. Y. at is a fact not y
generally known" says Justice,
that the only red slate in the t
'Orld is found IN four towns of
county"
China offers as attractive a field
Dr. the work OF professionally ex-
lOrers as auy other country on 0
be globe. 1t has recently been as. v
ertaIned that the Chinese coal =,
elds occupy an area of 400, 900 y
luare miles. s
An old Australian wOOdsman de- I
ares that a bruised onion applied Il
!. Once TO the wounds from veno. A
IOus serpents will arrest the action A
I the poison. Country boys know
lat onion is a valuable remedy :