The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-05-05
Editorial and Otherwise.

thing because they try to do too much.
The fellows who do not get political plums
look as though they had tried their teeth on
| persimmons.
The Marquis of Londonderry has the small
est pony IN the world. Itweighs only l6 pounds
and at its birth was but 1917 inches high.
When you walk, says Russian proverb,
| pray oneee; when you go to sea, pray twice
when going to be married, pray three times.
! The famous liberty bell which will be one of
| the attractions at the Worlds Fair, will be
guarded day and night by six Philadelphia po-
licemen.
Lecretary Lamont says he is going TO make
the hoard of Idle army officers at Washington
do something. This is stepin the right di-
rection.
| A Kansas official made his mother-in-law
his typewriter. This will easily 20 on record
as the most remarkable case of nerotism ever
heard of.
A tornado swept over east Mississippi last
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Scores of lives are reported lost, and the dam
age is enormous.
The Birmingham News sizes it up when it
says that the veterans have accepted the re-
suit of the war, but they have not forgotten
their dead comrades.
The Augusta Chronicle says that Lee Meri-
wethcr may tramp and write books, but he
wants it understood that Office seeking is one
vice which he has not.
1t was Vanderbilt who ssid that poverty is
the best foundation for wealth. Millions have
the foundation laid, but the coveted super
structure is reared by very few.
]. Marriage comes high in the ChOctaw nation,
Indian Territory. A man must have resided
in the nation two years before he will be
granted license and then it costs him 5000.
A Kansas City man the other day took out a
license fora dog named Christopher Column
! bus. And the license clerk made the trans
action historically complete by numbering the
\ license 1872.
The Supreme Court of Mississippi has rem
eered decision in case which was appealed
to it involving the constitutionality of the
stock law. The court decided that the law is
constitutional.
! The Delta Cotton Mills, at Carrollton, Miss,
recently sold under the hammer for 81 800.
4 The machinery alone originally cost $SO,OOO,
to say nothing of the l,lOO acres of land be-
longing thereto.
South Texas will send carload of cape jas
4 mine buds to the Texas building for the open
ing of the Worlds Fair on May /, 1898, and
distribute them to the many visitors with a
little ribbon with Texas printed on it.
4 The rates charged by the Southern Express
Company were cut down very materially last
week by the State Railroad Commission. On
N packages less than 50 in value the reduction
ranges from twenty-five to forty per cent.
| August 9th has been named as the day for 9
grand gatherngOf Virginians at the Worlds
Fair. On that day the 274th anniversary o.
the assembling at jamestown of the first rep
resentativc legislative body of Americans vii
occur.
An Oregon lady, in applying for govern
ment position, states that she is "a years ole
and weighs Az pounds. She would undoubt
edly fill any office to which she might be ap
pointed, but certainly she already holds ia
position.
The Memphis Appeal-Avalanahe learns iron
Sam Jones, who is there, that Paducah is in
habited mostly by liars, thieves, drunkards
saloon keepers, hypocrtes and stingy oil
church members, who are all going tohell in
whirl basket.
The Florida orange crop this season wi
probably be the largest ever known. The tree
are now in blossom, and are so full of blooi
that should only one half Of them mature. tn
trees would not hold the fruit without consd
cradle propping and bracing e p
An English physician says that every ma
who comes to the front in his profession
London is marked by one CHARACTERISTIC, viz
That. the larger his practice, the less in Il
shape Of alcohol he takes, and his excuse
81 am very sorry but cannot take it and {
I duty!
The New Orleaus Spicayrne says The il
n tcllircnt merchant is known by the way he al
= yertiscs. Dtpd waAlcttering, thrown in IL
gutter circuars and dingy cards in dirty mu
cars are ~ .f1twith clean and popular p