The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-10-06
He was singing After the Bail"
In the scented garden dim;
A window snsh-then sudden fash
And the ball went after him

And the ball went after him
Life is song" said some poet, and he
told the truth. But it is n sad reflection that
man may make his existence as obnoxious
to society rs some popular tunes get to be-
Capt. W. Z. Hunt, Of Greenville, Miss, has
been appointed United States minister 10
liong Kong China, by President Cleveland.
The position pays from sS,O0o 60 10000 a
year
Butter, which is almost Indispensable t.
the meal nowadays, was formerly used
solely as an ointment. licredOtus, Il Greek
historian, is the first writer who mentions
butter, b. G., 800.
A merchant OF Meridian is out in acard
announcing that he believes in 30 inches 10
| the yard and lG ounces TO the pound. That's
| II good belief and will 20 far toward helping
| IL man to heaven.
Counting the bearing and non-bcaring
orange trees in Florida, there are estimated
to be ten million trees. California is credit
ed with having six hillion, and Arizona
about one million.
A man who Is said to have the "cvil eye
has created some excitement among The ne
groes OF East Tennessee. It IS claimed by
some Of the most superstitious that he Can
cause sickness or death ut will.
The marriage Of Miss Annie Howard and
, Mayor Carter Harrison, OF Chicago, will not
take place Mt Biloxi until early in Novem'
Der, as tho preparations for the wedding
cannot be completed before that tme.
II. Clay King, who is confined in the pen
tentiary at Nashville unanr II life sentence
for numbering David p0ston in Memphis ha
written and published II pamphlet Of his iif,
in which he tries to excite n sentiment o
sympathy IN his favor.
. The storms that have swept over the ATTAIN
tic coast during the last six weeks hay
been responsible for the loss OF many vessel
but the number has never been figured ou
At the New York Marine Exchange is u lis
of eighteen vessels that have disappcare
y and made no sign OF their fate.
The reunion OF Confederate Veteran
which was to have taken place in Birming
ham during the second week In this montl
. and which had been several times postponct
u has been indefinitely declared off, owing I
u the strlngency of the times, and In respons
\ to suggestions To Gen. Gordon from Confet
crate Camps and individual veterans "a
over the South.
Thc.fction OF the deadly upas tree OF jaw
- has only this basis OF fact to rest upon Til
n tree cXudcs IA poisonous juice that the nj
l tives use to mix with other ingredients
] coat tnolr arrows It also grows In the loy
. lying Java Valley, where deadly carbon
gas or less always escapes from the crcvic
of the volcanic rocks.
Apropos Of the present epidemic OF yo,.o
fever at brunswick, Ga, George I. Angc
writes the Boston Transcript recalling u
L. virtues Of sulphur During the pestllcn'
le at Momphs number of gentlemen were ~
vised to wear powdered sulphur IN the
stockings All oi these complying with q
advice escaped the disease, but nearly q
who failed to do 80 succumbed 70 it, y
q personal investigation showed that none
the employees OF II certain match factory
Boston suffered from the grippe when II W
epidemic there, and u German physicist
!. vouchos for the efficiency OF sulprer agai
holera,