The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-01-13
Editorialand Otherwise.

The right hand is slave to the left.
Look on the bright side of everything.
The Democrats are on top in Wyoming.
Thirteen Michigan hens laid l,l59 eggs last
year.
Thanks to Senator +. C. Wathall for public
documents.
Mrs. Cleveland is a member of the National
Press League.
Better rise an hour earlier mornings than
run all day to catch up.
The reason figures won't lie is because they
always stand for something.
The gem cannot be polished without friction
nor man perfect without trials.
The Chicago Times alludes to Elder Shep-
ard as the editor Of the Mule in Distress.
Louisiana gave Cleveland larger majority
than any other State in the Union. 1t was
90, 800.
Mrs. Mary L. Lease has put an end to her
candidacy for the United States Senate from
Kansas.
One hundred and sixty-6ve Confederate
army generals yet survive. Twenty-nine have
died this year.
Smoked glass will not be in demand this
year, as there WILDE no eclipses visible in this
part of the world.
The Supreme Court of Louisiana has de-
cided that there is no law which can compel a
man to support his wife.
Chairman Carter, of the Republican Nation
al Committee, comedies the United States
Senate to the Democrats.
While orange picking was going on in Flori
da last week the farmers in more northern
States were gathering splendid ice crop.
1t is stated that there is "A good opening in
Sturgeon, Missouri, for a lawyer who will
pledge himself not to run for the Legislature.
Mr.. Cleveland has Just bought huge waste
basket, which will receive nearly all the appli-
cations for Office sent to him before his inaug-
uration.
Gen Garman, who died in North Carolina
last month, requested that he be buried In
Confederate uniform. His request was COM
piled with.
A political sage once said that when man
holds public Office too long, he begins to be-
lieve that no one else can fill that Office but
himself.
With the news that Mrs. Langtry is worse
comes the reminder from Mrs. Grundy that
she often said the Lilly was no better than she
ought to be.
DR.. Briggs, who has for several weeks been
on trial for heresy before the New York Pres
bytery, has been declared mot guilty" on all
the charges made.
"When l.. Q. c. Lamar was made Secretary
of the Interior, nearly every young man who
had known him in Mississippi went to Wash
ington to get job" said II. F. Cole, Of Water
Valley.
The New York Tribune estimates the Janu-
AIRY dividends throughout the entire country a,
from $3.50 900 to 100000. That is
about $3.50 for every one of US. Pass them
around
Don't be content to sing "by ear 1t il
easy to learn "sight reading" of music and SC
much more ENJOYABLE is it than singing from
memory purely that nobody who has good
voice should neglect it.
When they give Texas reporter pie and ict
cream this is the way he describes the wed
ding "a cloudless sky, ruled by the radiant
moon and gemmed with millions ofstars, arch
ed grandly the nuptial night"
Annie Owens, aged Is, and Charley East
aged 10. elopcd from 0syka last week, anC
were married. Mr.. Owens captured his daugh
ter and took her home, and both bride and
groom are consequently disconsolate.
In this State by the provisions of the dram
shop law the entire stock in trade of an unli
censed liquor dealer, as well as the buildin,
in which he carries on business, is liable to at
tachment for the amount of the license.
Jay Gould was lumberman in 1856 and 10
81, before he became famous, and was inter
estcd in the lumber business at Alexandra
La, at the time of bis death. His estate own
large amount of Southern timber land.
The DEMoCRAT-STAR gives no chromos
pufs, no swindlcs, inserts no humbug adver
tisements, and does not devote one half Il
space to telling how good the other halfis.
is published every Friday and is furnished /
subscribers at 80 year, in advance, postag
prepaid.
Trainer Jimmie Wakeley, whom John L
Sullivan recently abused and accused of ''do
! ing him" at the New Orleans fight, hits bac
at the ex-champion, and says Sullivan is in
sane and the biggest no-account counterfe
and liar the country has produced.
Judge DuBose, of Memphis, has read tn
riot act to the gamblers. Hereafter"
says, ITO the rock pile you go. lam going
J break up the practice Of working men sur
porting lot Of gamblers" These words CON
ing from one who means all he says, is goin
to make the knights Of the green cloth kee
J shady in Memphis.
OF the convict lease system the Birmine
ham Age-H Herald saws: every State in tn
Union that has alcase system, 1t appears,
now discussing and demanding its abrogatiol
/. II is pernicons and harmful in all its tender
cies, and will have to 60. On internal publ
improvements is the place to work convicts.
I An interesting outcome Of our peculiar ne
tional election system is seen in the electors
votes Of California and Ohio. In both Of thes
d States the party in the minority will have
: single vote in the ELECTORAL college. Harrisu
will receive one vote from California, au
!. Cleveland one from Ohio. This is better tha
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