The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-12-18
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j fOlU,UUU was recently Cdiilcu ou
4 of Lake Superior.
A tobacco expert says that Okla
/ homa will become a great Tobacco,
growing region.
A Nuremburg watch in the form
of an acorn has a tiny pistol whicl
serves as an alaIm.
TIE giant Galabra, brought from
Arabia TO Rome during the reigl
of Claudius Caesar, was ten fee
high.
There is a serenading club il
st. Joseph which is so bad hat j
has been arrested for disturbing
the peace.
The slowest thing on earth, al
OK team, has III away and killed &
Tennessee family. Wonders never
cease.
The membership of The Farmers
Alliance in Kansas is said 10 have
declined from 10000 last year 10
10000 this year.
The natives of the Friendly
Islands spend most of their time
in The water. They are great
swimmers and divers.
The insurance losses on the
great lakes for October and Sep.
TENDER on account of the coniin.
ed storms will aggregate $465, 900.
Venezuela has fiiiy-six holidays
every year. On these days the
people close their stores and enjoy
themselves in chicken fights.
Wild turkeys are plentiful in The
Southern Mexican States. As
many as half a dozen varieties
can be seen on a short hunting
trip.
San Francisco resembles London
somewhat. 1t has a fog almost
every afternoon and The wind
blows III from The ocean at a high
rate.
The natives of the West Indies
drink rum and gin, which they can
purchase for one cent a glass, the
glasses being about as large as a
wine goblet.
icebergs have been seen in the
Antarctic Ocean which rose 400,
700 and even 1000 feet above The
water, and we're from three to five
miles in length.
Melons were first called cante.
loupes from being cultivated at
Canteluppi, a village near Rome,
where they had been introduced
from Armenia by missionaries.
The streets of Caracas, the CAPT.
tai of Venezuela, are so narrow
that the street cars that were I'M
ported had TO be sawed in two in
order TO allow them TO turn the
corner.
The giant Ferregus, slain by Or
lando, the nephew of Charlemagne,
was twenty.elght feet high and so
heavy that no horse could be found
that was strong enough to bear
him.
The recorI-breaking quality of
the drought may be inferred from
the fact That an island which
hadn't been seen before since 1851,
has recently appeared IN Lake
Wassokeag in Dexter.
Chevalier Scrog, while exploring
a cavern in the Peak of Tenerife,
found a skull which must have be.
longed TO a man at least fifteen
feet high. 1t contained sixty per.
feet teeth of monstrous size.
There are records of elephants
that have lived for 200 years, and
an age of $50 years is not regarded
as so very old for this animal. II
lakes about a quarter of a century
10 get the elephant TO full maturity.
Pennsylvania has twelve towns
Or postofices with very peculiar
names, viz: Stumptown, Bullskin,
Shinlown, Jugtown, Pnckerly, Sin,
Sis, Scrubgrass, Hers, Man'sChoice,
Malden's Choice and Bird in Hand.
Live offers are rare in Connectl-
but a hunter saw two in the
Willimantic River recently and
hot one, which was about two feet
md a half in length and weighed
eighteen pounds and a half. The
'ther escaped.
A frost insurance company is
icing formed in France and it
promises to be a successful vent
re. IL is estimated that the loss
q agriculture by frost in France is
bout Il 100000, and the compa-
y will insure against this.
The Chinese have a superstition
hat if they release a bird or beast
4 captivity they draw down a
lessing upon themselves. The
Their day one of them bought
hree turtles at Portland, Oregon,
nd threw them into the ocean.
Under the death notices in the
lelbourne newspapers are funeral
inserted by the undertake
RS, respectfully inviting friends to
,llow the body 10 the place of
lterment. The undertakers add
leir business addresses and tele-
hone numbers.
A curious artifice of war was
by a Chinese junk when
by a man-of- war. The
-ew threw cocoanuts overheard
ito the sea, and then jumped in
nonc them. Nearly All escaned |