The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-08-21
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MISSING Inns.

Flft'il wv ="
was attacked By a eamecock
few days ago and may die Of hi
wounds.
A list of prorri-tors Of The Lon
don Times, shows thai they are .
in number and include many wo
men.
Watermelon parties are in sea
son in Texas. They include
moonlight ride tn snme plantation
unlimited watermelons and
dance.
Eighty per cent. Of The people a
Unionvllle, Mo, are church mem
bers. There are hardly enough sin
ners in The whole town TO get Up
dance or a card party.
A London married couple nance
Waters, tor some reason bestowed
upon their daughter the name %
Mineral, and now she has 10 sigr
herself Mineral Waters"
The bellies of Bar Harbor have
taken up whislling for amusement
and the initiate The songs OF birds
so well that their notes are mis-
taken Tor the warblings OF the
bobolink.
GutIa percha has become so
scarce thai there is not enough fol
the insulation OF submarine cables,
and either fresh sources OF supply
or a substitute for it must be dis
covered.
Rumors of a lost boy set all The
citizens OF Sherwood, Mich. oil a
hunt. and after some hours 1t was
discovered That he had gone into
retirement 10 recover from The Ell
feet Of his first cigarette.
In Australia, where deadly
snakes abound, it has been diScov-
cred thai slrychnia is almost an in
fallible cure for their bites. The
anlidote acts quickly, snake poison
slowly. AL physicians use it.
Investigation of the working of
Kansas liquor law shows that a
resident of Topeka had a cold one
day and a fever the next tor a year
and that his medicine VAS lnYarla-
bly, whiskey or beer.
A Virginia old gentleman, who
is mildly insane upon the subject
of advantages Of out of door life,
has taken up his residence in an
apple tree. Strange to say, his
health has moi suffered by the ey-
posure, but has actually improved.
William Fitzgerald, a bright
Young man OF Detroit, has gone
crazy over the supposed Bacon ci-
pher in Shakespeare, which he
thought he had found. He has
been moved to "a lunatic hospital,
and, il thought. will Don recover.
Here is The prayer of the minis.
ter of The Cumbrays, two miSera-
bic islands in the mouth of the
Clyde 20 Lord, bless and be gra-
cious 10 the greater and lesser
Cumbrays, and in Thy mercy do
moi forget The adjacent islands OF
Great Britain and Ireland"
An army of lOcast ten miles wide
recently swept over The Punjab in
India. II occupied five days in
passing. Not much harm was done
10 crops, however, since they were
so far advanced that they could be
harvested before the locustS reach.
ed them.
A Young girl of fourteen ha,
died at Dusseldorf from excessive
JOY. She had been promised one
of the most delightful Rhine Ak
cursiOns, and The prospect filled
her with such Overpowerng JOY
as 10 produce a strain upon The
hearts action, and size fell TO The
floor and died.
The recent diecussiOn on tobac-
co and alcOhal following Tolslol's
mercile>s screed against their use
revealed a man who smoked for
seventy years without interruptions,
consuming between eight and nine
thousand pounds of tobacco, and
YET retaining perfect physical and
moral health.
Addressing a camp meeting at
Decatur, H., Bishop Turner said
that any man who thought he was
near the close Of his life at sixty or
sevenly.five ought 10 be ashamed
OF himself and that those who
oheyed The laws of nature ought Ia
live 10 the age of u hundred
years. Bishop Turner is sixty
nine and in his prime.
The recent hanging Of Boudinet
Champion on The old gallows in
the United States Jail yard at Fort
Smith, Ark, was The seventy-sec-
md execution of the death penalty
ON that scailold since The first day
January, 1863. All the victims
we're condemned in The federal
courts for crimes committed on
territory belonging TO Indians.
DIR. llardwick, surgeon of the
hospital at Sheffield. after twenty.
years experience, concludes that
he a cure cancer and lupus with.
out The knife. His system appears
10 have been announced limulta-
neousIy IN the physician of Vienna
by Prof. Won Moreiz. DIR. Hard
wick has no yet publicly explained
his treatment, but he invites his
medical brothers to examine it..
A New York steamship agent
lays that so far 1000 people have
sailed ior Europe every week since