The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-06-02
Editorial and Otherwise

year was $33 100000
man in Alabama is to be tried for a mur-
der committed % years ago.
Sullvan's latest pugilstic trump over
0ne-armed man cost him 81 200.
Jimmie Carksons motto is Lie it out on
this lying, if it takes all summer.
Water costs eight dollars barrel in portions
of Mexico where drouth prevails.
The Galveston News says "a skirt divided
against itself is merely pair of pants"
Susan B. Anthony says this is a non marry
ing age; but Susan should not Judge the age
by herself.
Chas. Wortham, Mississippian, has the ex-
elusive right to sell peanuts on the Worlds
Fair grounds.
The New York Herald looks for hot anG
humid summer favorable to the spread of
Asiatc cholera.
Sam Jones says the fools are in the major-
ty in this country, but about this time the
fools are all broke.
An exchange says it cost $500 to discover
this country, and it is costing $20,OOO,OOO to
to commemorate the event.
Southern negroes believe that the blue Jay
carries sticks to the devil to burn them with if
they reach Satan's dominions.
Before the year 100 everyone wore mittcns
or went barehanded. Gloves with fingers to
them were invented in the twelfth century.
The doctors say that the reason that the
summer girl only lasts one summer is owing
to the vast amount of ice cream she eats.
West Virginia has two-headed woman who
has two voices entirely different in tone. She
talks bass on one side and tenor on the other
lock of Andrew Jackson's hair, and also a
lock of the late Presidents wife's hair, is in
the possession of resident of Rome, Georgia.
Forest fires are raging in northern Michigan
and number of people have been burned to
death. At one place fire ran two and a half
miles in eight minutes.
Skinning man at cards is different from
robbing him on the highway. In the latter
process the victim puts .up his hands. In the
former the robbcr does it..
Capt. W. A. Harper, prominent in insur-
ance, distinguished for gallantry in the Con-
federate war, is dead His body was inferred
at Brandon, Miss, his old home.
Lady Collin Campbell says that kissing
! ruins the complexion. Lady Collin ought to
try shellac on her complexion, and then it
wouldn't come off when kissed.
Foster, ex-Sccrstary of the Treasury, is an
eminent success as financial wrecker. He
left "busted" United States Treasury and
went home and 'busted' his own bank.
The armored cruiser New York ON her trial
trip Monday developed a speed of 2l.l6 knots
per hour, making her the fastest war vessel
afoat. The United States Navy is all right.
Joseph Jefferson, says the Detroit Frcss
Press, has submitted to severe surgical op-
Grafton. He has had large abccss in his
throat, aud it grew to be so painful that he
had to submit to the surgeons knife.
The New York Marine Journal spins yarn
to the effect that whale at Nantucket got en-
tangled and excited and ran away with bell
buoy. If this can be believed there is bet
ter chance for the Jonah story to go down.
Republicans who are getting out of the par
| ty now are those whom tina, party can very
well spare, and whom the Democracy has no
particular use for. Those who got out before
the November elections exhibited some nerve,
| if nothing else.
Mrs. Clevcland's tastes in jewery are very
simple. Although she owns a number Of rings
she never wears any except her wedding ring
only very rarely. A favorite ornament. on
dress occasions is beautiful star, which was
one of her wedding gifts.
The Albany Times says those who delight il
being among the first TO adopt modern i'm
provements may walk in paper stockings this
summer on paper mattings. The stockings
are German invention, said to be preventive
of colds, and the paper mattings are said tt
wear longer than straw or any other kind.
Brother Turner, of the New York Recorder
notes with pleasure and fond anticipation the
announcement that the Georgia watermelon
crop will be the largest ever planted. Well
The time a fcller's thankful
That he's livin' in the South,
Is when the knife is in the melon
An the melons in the mouth.
| A Worlds Fair correspondent says: "a
marked feature of the Fair, especially t,
Southerners, will be the almost total absenc,
of colered people. Not one in 1850 of the peo
pie who hourly swarm the big park and tn,
buildings during the day is colorcd. Tn,
writer has on several days seen more Turks
japanese, even Esquimaux, and a great man,
more Chinese than Africans.
Mr.. Carlisle declared again on Saturday las
that he would certainly enforce the Unitet
States law which provides for sending Chimes,
laborers back to their own country so far Al
the means at his disposal would enable him s.
to do. lie added that only $4,000 remains o
the appropriation for the present fiscal year Il
carry out that law, but that $50,O0O will b
available for that purpose on the first Of July
Tee Louisiana Democrat sarcastically criti
cises the New Orleans Cotton Exchange for it
"sipgularly inappropriate"gift of a gold-tippe,
gavel to Judge Chrisman,of Mississippi for hi
resistance to white-capism. The nemocra
thinks gavel has no connection with judicia
functions, and that "somc token emblematica
Of judicial authority" should have symbolize'
the appreciation Of the Exchange for the Dol,
defender Of the law. The gavel may, however
come in handy in future little ructions, as oft
times does the pecler's club.