The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-04-28
Editorial and Otherwise

According to DR.. Talmage, heaven is buster
than Broadway.
II is said that Charley Mitchell will abandon
pugilism for the pulpit.
The Presbytery of Charleston s. c., has
decided to cxclude all Sunday workers.
Postmaster General Bssell pronounces his
name with the accent on the last syllable.
Eighteen of the principal presents given to
Bismarck on his birthday are valued at $780,
900.
Congress appropriated the money, the Pres
ident will touch the button, and Chicago will
do the rest.
A baby who can sleep with its feet over
pillow while standing on its head is always
worth raising.
The DEMOCRAT-STAR is straight out Dem
ocratc newspaper, not sensational, but truth
full and reliable.
The total recorded immigration in this coun-
try is l6,0OO093, almost as much as the whole
population Of Spain.
Capt. Ben Stevens, of Augusta, has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Augusta. That is a
capital appointment.
A negro woman in SunHower county, Miss,
has given birth to freak of nature which is
half human and half billy goat.
Cardinal Gibbons says that Young men who
are specifically educated affect skepticism in
order to appear wise and learned.
Ex-Secretary Stephen D. Elkins is to have
his portrait painted by Benjamin Constant, the
French artist, now in this country.
The Meridian News threatens to issue a
Worlds Fair edition. Let it issue and show
up the resources of East Mississippi.
A son of the Archbishop Of Canterbury, pri-
lery and an entgusiast in the art of war.
Albert B. Osborne, the new mayor of Cor.
ry, Penn, is but 26 years old, and is probably
the youngest mayor of the United States.
Some men are honest by way of self-inter
est, just as matter of policy, and generous
as part of strategic plan for attaining sue
cess.
It is stated that the colored people Of tn
United States support colleges, II academic
and SO high schools, in which there are 5000
pupils.
The New York Morning Advertiser is of tn
opinion that bounty Jumper is as much en
titled to a pension as a veteran who fougl
bravely for the union.
California claims to be the third State in tn
yield of petroleum, the yield last year havin
been 5O0, 900, or 2O,350 900 gallons Crude, a
against $4,000 barrels in 1891
The retail grocers of New Orleans have de
cided to abolish ''lagniappe'-the giving of
small present to each customer making pul
chase. II is an old Creole custom.
Thomas Condor, NJ. p, who sued newspa
per in Cork for { 600 damages for intimatin
that he made hiccoughy speech when he wa
really too full for utterance, got an award {
f5. tr- t,Esft.
A great deal of walking must be done in III
Windy city. The Chicago Mail says: "Tf
worlds fair may be Justly called an exhibitio
for the purpose of promoting pedestrian excl
cise."
The man who would hide a dollar when !
owes it to his weekly newspaper, would drop
nickel with a hole IN it in the hat for IL
heather and sigh because the hole WASH
larger.
They say that Richard Croker has fatty r.
fused the profered twig of political OH
branch sent him by Cleveland through Tan
many Congressman last week. Perhaps tn
is just what the President wanted.
Persons who intend to make a long stay
Chicago this summer and to insist upon ha
ing accommodations in the hotels that are
, the immediate neighborhood of the fair gate
will need to go with their "inside pocket,
well lined
1t is now understood that Capt. Robert '
,, Banks, of Meridian, is to be appointed R
ceiver Of Public Money at Jackson, at the e
Of the fiscal year June 30th. Capt. Banks is
l. deserving Democrat and needs the receiving
money every hour.
Commodore s. d. Bolton, hale old sea-d
of SO, who lives in New Orleans, has vi,
? recollection Of Lafayette, whom he saw in Is.
Bolton was then midshipman 10 years {
and was on board the new warship the Brand
wine, which carried Lafayette home.
> Bishop William Stevens Perry, of Iowa, il
sermon at Buffalo few days sgo, is report
to have said that we owe nothing to eitt
Columbus or Spain for the discovery of Am,
lea. The honor belonged to John Cabot, W
sailed under the patronage Of Heury VII.
Our Senator, J. Y. George, is mad.
wants the Republican Office holders turned ,
n in this State. He says at is disgusting
: Southern Democrats to have to wait seve
u months for Republicans to be removed. tt
ie ought to be kicked out like rattle snakes"
A man went into an Alabama newspaper
flee the other day to killthe editor. There '
a brief interview, and then the editor wrot
u. touching obituary, in which the plea Of ST
y defense was ingeniously introduced. Ne
- fool with an editor or gasoline stove.
From 1889 to 1915 the postage on sin
letter carried under forty miles, eight cen
, over forty miles and under ninety miles,
l cents; under one hundred and fifty mi
4 twelve and half cents under three hund
II miles, seventeen cents under Ave hund
miles, twenty cents over five hundred mi
twenty five cents.
RS. Edison, the wonderful, the man who
~ work sixty hours on stretch, the greatest
my ventor Of the country, las interesting i'd
about food. "variety," he says, sis the
u'' cret Of wise eating. The nations that eat
most kinds Of foods are the greatest natioi
- and he said to his wife, just after they v