The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-10-27
Editorial andOtherWise

thtiNttuiiuitii us StdittIoWSs
The population of London increases at the
rate Of two hundred souls Il day.
The total valuation of our State penitenti-
AIRY and grounds is placed at $4,000.
Everybody and everything believes in re-
lief for the people except Congress.
Patient men frequently miss their opp0r-
tunities and they are regarded as a Job lot.
All things should be true to nature-a hor-
net that can't sting is Il melancholy failure,
When II Holly Springs gallant lights Il
match to start his cigarette his girl blows it
out
The clerks who have easy times are those
employed by merchants who do not adver-
tise.
Don't fall into the habit of calling pupil
scholar. Ten to one you are lying if you
do so.
w. A. Little, former Clerk of the Supreme
Court of this State, is indictment for murder
in Missouri.
Very fine goods are never marked down
| low enough to enable who are u little short to
reach them.
The year 1903 will go down in history as a
record breaker f)r cyclones, floods and rail-
way accidents.
Men who hold up railroad trains for gain
may have been holding up sedan chairs at
the Worlds Fair.
Position is everything. When a woman
wants to turn a mans head she gets on the
right side Of him.
Prize fighters are not always willing to
fight. They are generally ropcd in when 1t
comes to the test.
The Swiss postoffice conveys anything from
n postal card to barrels of wine, scythes and
bundles of Old iron.
No man will wake up in the morning and
find himself famous unless he has worked
hard the day before
Mr.. Allen, OF Nebraska, spoke 14ls conseru-
tive hours against the repeal of the sherman
act. A long time to say nothing.
out of the thrce-quarter million of visitors
to the Fair on Chicago day the Illinois Cen
tral handled between 100000 and 100000.
A bright Clarksdae boy has discovered
why the dog sits down so much: Because he
says, the seat of his pants is in his lungs.
Miss Emma Herncame Of Huntingdon
Pa, has an affection which causes her to
swing like pendulum at each heart beat.
The hotel men of the country will meet in
Louisville. November 18th, for the purpose
of organizing against their common enemy
the hotel beat"
1t Is said that some European bakers use
soap in their bread, This is probably whore
our foreign tramps acquire such an aversion
to that article of toilet.
The Bland dollar contains 4l2k grains OF
standard silver, being 1503s times the weigh
- of the gold dollar. This is called, for conve
nience "a ratio Of sixteen to one.
Bugalo Bill has just bought $4,000 resi-
: dence in North Platte, Neb very near th'
spot where he killed his first Indian, ant
there he intends to spend the rest Of his life
The biggest land case probably ever dcvel
p oped in Mississippi is pending In the Chan
Gerry Court at Jackson. involving 5000 900 90
acres of land in Sunnower and other delta
counties.
3 A Missouri paper gets off the following;
THE chinch bug eats the farmers grain,
The bee moth spoiis his honey;
The bed bug fills him full OF pain.
!, But the humbug gets his money"
A Pitstboro, Miss, tanner says he Will ia
all the hides brought to him by the first @
February. After that time the public scloc
teachers of Calhoun county will have to d
their own tanning.
There are twenty-eight institutions In Ru,
sa called technical railway schools, FOR I'll
special education Of people for all brancht
Of the railway service. All but three III
controlled by the government.
Mary Wells, an aged spinster of Boston ha
departed this life leaving $4,000 to her to-
ID cat. There are large number OF peop
H. who are not partial to cats would like to ~
as guardian for this particular thomas cat.
hv The experiment of growing willow and Il
- manufacture of willow ware has been a
tempted by Western capitaist,who expec
, great results. Four hundred acres of Ian
near St. Louis, have been reserved for Il
- undertaking.
The redoubtable Mrs. Lease Is getting
night for calamity bowling in bleedi
Kansas. This beats being a dog and bayil
ut the moon to death from material stan
point, though the other results aren't mu
more appreciable
Every dog in Jackson Miss wears coll
and the owner Of the dog pays dollar to t
city for the dogs collar privilege. Abe
four-fifths Of the American peopleuRre in @
ky,a sense like the jackson dog-they wear son
lody's collar and pay for the privilege.
A Texas widow re ,ently sued an editor
q 4 ten thousand dollars. She gained the S
~. and then the editor married her in order
old keep the money In the family, thereby mt
al, ifested u striking disimilarity to his cla
Editors. as rule, are sadly lacking in fns
"'' cial finesse.
q The Courler-Journal says: "What q gr
:, mistake those Secessionists who left
United States Senate to Join the South,
/, Confederacy. All that they need have dc
was to remain In the Senate and prev
! that body from ever voting an approprat
to carry on the war;"
"For what is the greatest amount Of III
ber used 2" asks the Southern Lumberm
"Nine people out Of ten will say for hou
and buildings. 1t is doubtful II IS per c.
OF the lumber output goe9into the huldir
MT The railroads, farmers and miscellane
inc purposes take about 40 per cent and the Q
er 25 per cent goes into boxes.
A young colored woman Is now In 1ai
New York with thirty-eight charges OF
it q berry against her. She is only 23ye
has dozen aliases and has plundered hot
In Newark, Orange, Jersey City and
York. She would hire out to family, "
or. n week and then slip away at the first opl
I'M tunitv. taking everything movable with