The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-11-10
Editorial andOtherWise

in go years.
Clouds are on the average about five hum
dred yards in thickness
Gold latch keys are affected by some fash
ionable men and women.
Mississippi has go Masonic lodges, with a
membership of nearly 1900.
I'm better OFF, :" buzzcd the fly as he tried
TO break away from the fly paper.
The queens Scotch journeys cost her Sos
600 a year for travelling expenses.
Hon. Thos. c. Catchings, of this State, is in
favor Of removing the duty on wool.
Physicians are made not born-no boy
ever yet took naturally to medicine.
A Newport, Ky, girl married a fellow sew
en- feet tall. She had loved him long.
Electricity and scandal are fast racers,
but the latter usually gets there first
The Moslen World is the only Mohammc-
don paper published in the United States.
Cats cannot see in the dark but they pos
scss remarkable powers of vision in II dim
light.
Twelve thousand microbes strung on II line
would make procession only an inch in
length.
The business boom should not be at all
backward in coming forward. The time is
ripe for it,
There is firm of merchants at Brandon
Miss, bearing the peculiar name of "Stlngy
Taylor Co."
Through mountain pressure for ages, ma
lures pulverizcs chalk and moulds il into the
hardest marble.
The practice of using eggs at Easter is of
IIindoo origin, the egg being in India an en-
bem of Immortality.
A single polypus has been cut into one hun
drck and twenty-four parts. and each In
tlme becomes perfect animal.
Why should we buy anything abroad that
we can raise at home? This is not political
question--it is "a common sense inquiry.
There Is a coal mine ut Nanamo, in British
Columbia. the galleries of which extend fol
Il distance OF twelve miles under the ocean
After the fair Is over.
| After the jag is done.
Some folks will then discover
They paid well for their fun -
The tallest tree ON earth so far as know
at present is gum tree lately measured ii
the Cape Otway range, Victoria. This Eu
calyptus rcgnans is AS feet high.
The corn market continues to show more
life than wheat. and the exports so far thi'
| a mn onO INN
bushels for the same period of last year.
The Vicks6urg Democrat SAYS "When
ever man gets bigger than his country an'
bigger than his party 1t is time to call in Thy
cistern maker and put hoops around In
head.
Within the past two months negligence ha
been the cause of seventeen railroad acci
dents in which l3s persons were killed AM
olo seriously injured. This record is simpl
appalling.
Speaking of the gubcrnatorial timber tina
: is beginning TO sprout. the Grenada sentlne
says I'VE believe in the scriptural rule ap
piled to politics. that the first shall be last
and vice versa"
| ~ NAN nuii-tu iNN'ilAiy IN O''' - '''' So
want to be cut up by the medical student
and threatened To get even with them If the
did so. 1t is said the students did not wan
to dissect him after that
1t is stated that while boring n well a
Obion, Tenn, the dril passed through
large log at a depth of twenty-five feet fror
the present surface OF the ground, Th
kind of wood is rot given.
Miss Annette Daisy, of Kentucky. an
thirty other old maids have secured tire
adjoining quarter-sections in the Cherokee
strip and swear that no man shall set fot
thereon for amy purpose.
, On Of the most striking specimens of II
gcnuity the Tupelo Journal has seen in
long time was the model OF ship. with con
: plete rigging. made of cake icing. The mot
: el is described as beautifully and perfect
constructed
Y A Virginia murderer, before taking h
Journey via the gallows route, preached i
own funeral grafton, and said that he wou
vet return to earth. The sheriff think
however, il he does return he will not
quite 50 long-winded.
The experiment of shipping Florida orang
to London has been very successful III
steamer Campania took to England PIG box'
which went OIL readily at an average of 10
per box. The Germanic carried 1000 box
J more, which are now about due In Londt
The State of Missississippi realized on prl
ilege taxes for the fiscal year 1892 the $,
of s2O4. 4.Gi5s7. OF this sum $4,000 was paid
liouor dealers. Most OF the railroad ta,
T. were paid in after January /, 1903, so I'll
only so,9O7,OS from that source appears in t
report of 1902.
! II has long been considered that stutteri
- Is contagious. Here is proof OF IT, Tn,
III are so 900 suffering children in the scho
III of Germany. The increase has been so gre
s during the past four years that the defect
considered to be transmitted from the ST
terlng scholars to the others.
Miss Lizzie Clarke, of Virginia, who was
- lccted to represent her State in the table
, of beauty at the Confederate reunion
i Birmingham Is the victim Of n mock N
! rage. In spirit of fun she consented to
] married to Doctor Taylor, and the lawy
say that the marriage holds good.
We have heard Of dollar looking big
these hard times, but this poem, from
Buffalo Courier, about sizes up the real 81
alton:
IT. oh. Ferris Wheel. though big thou art
De In some mems eyes, you bet,
An ordinary silver dimes
A blamed sight bigger yet.