The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-07-21
Editorial andOtherwise.


straws show which way the wind blows.
Uncle Sam pays 100, O,OOo0OO year in salaries
The principal food export Of Sweden Is
butter.
Never count your fish until they are cook
ed.
The Worlds Fair has two miles OF lunch
counters.
There is IL fearful epidemic Of yellow fever
in Brazil.
There are 6OoO women postmasters In the
United States.
Justice Blatchford, Of the U. $. Supreme
Court, Is dead
1t would be appropriate for waitress to
wear Il fetching costume.
Senator vorhccs predicts that Congress
will sit u year or longer.
False teeth are now made from paper and
are said to wear well and last a lifetime.
Judge Terral knows how to deal with white
caps-he sends them to the pen for ten years.
The first bricks made In this country were
manufactured by the Virginia settlers IN
1912.
Surely the good Lord must favor the news.
paper nlen--we never hear OF anybody else
doing 1t.
Senator Hill, Of New York. Is quoted as ia
vOrlng the unconditional repeal OF the Shcr-
man act.
Twelve years ago one sailor In every los
who went to sea lost his life now only one
In 255 Is lost.
Mrs. Matte Wooten, Of Viola. Tenn, has a
quilt which Is made up Of 3,l62 pieces, no two
Of which are alike.
Us. Bailey has been appointed assistant
Internal revenue collector for the northern
district OF Mississippi.
Gold and silver. by article l. section 10 Of
the Federal Constitution, are made the mon
ey Of the United States.
1t Is so dry and hot In Texas that the song
OF the grasshOpper sounds like somebody
frying meat across the way.
In Mexico there is not one wagon factory
Every man makes his own, or gets IL from Il
nelgnDOr or uHOthef country.
The Mohawk Indians will not allow so
much as II blade OF grass to grow upon the
graves OF their companions.
The saddcst sight in the world, says a
Georgia paper Is a negro with a nlckle gaz-
| Ing upon ten-ccnt watermelon.
There are $50 different mountain peak,
within the limits OF the United States, each
OF which exceed 10000 feet in height.
The tercdo, submarine worm, causes
much damage to telegraphic cables. 1t will
eat through anything except brass.
The first lighthouse built In America was
ut st. Augustine, Fla. 1t is now believed
1t was originally used as IA watch-tower.
| How the silver and gold will jingle when
the extra session opens speech is silver
silence is gold" will take OH u new meaning
1t Is all well enough to say Don't worry,
but the man that doesn't worry has mnG
us blank and characterless as frozen duck.
pond.
determined to do away with the Commences
mcnt ball at that institution. and to abolisl
baseball there.
Nothing slow about that Texas bank cash
Ter who Is charged with having embczzlet
s2a0 600, but II seems odd that he did not MAKE
1t even money.
The rascagoula DEMoCRAT-SrAR has com,
out In neat new dress. 1t Is one of the bcs
country weeklies in Mlssissippi.-Miss
issippi Leader.
The vicksburg Post has discovered tina
the real Blarncy Stone is in Ireland and no
IN Scotland, as some poorly informed editor
have stated.
The Princess Of Wales Is very deaf. Sh'
public she simply smiles and mods. as II sh
understood.
Lady Aberdeen has given an order to
Dublin nurseryman for thousand pots 0
shamrock to be sent to the Irish village u
the Worlds Fair.
The Slaughter family of Texas are said t
be the most extensive landowners In Ameri
ca, their combined holdings amounting t
half u million acres.
A doctor has succeeded in teaching sevcra
mute women to talk. This only confirms til
0plnionion VIC have so long entertained US I
the supcrabundance Of doctors.
The word Syndicate" which Is OF Amer
can origin, Is now nsed In the British Ilous
Of Commons to characterize combinations
which number Of members having CON
mon object IN view unite for balloting pur
poses.
,ay GOuld's children are going to erect
memorial church costing e2i0,00O ut ROxbur!
N. Y, where their father was born. With
modcsty quite unexpected, they put God
name before that Of Jay Gould ON the corr
erstOnc.
In the course of u trial to determine III
ownership OF bushel Of oysters, IL Cape Ma
0ysterman testified that he could identii
his own oysters wherever found. The jur
. didn't agree with him, but he says he will al
peal the case
] It IL astonishing to sec the trade slip ava
. from the old merchant that does not adve
tise. In these days Of progress the merchai
who expect to get and retain trade withol
advertising had just as well be preparing
quit business.
! Tee originator Of the Concord grupc Is st
living In Concord, Mass. He Is Ephriam
/! hull. now 81 years old. and one Of the prom
4 ncnt men In the historic town. In his gard,
In Concord he still shows the old moth
vine Of the Concord grape, which he devclo
cd from tho seeds Of a native wild graz
planted just fifty years ago.
Rev. Sam P. Jones says In the Allan
l. Jaurnal: '.Most OF us will soon be where II
debtor was when the creditor pressed him 4
payment OF account and said to him ~
= bcen 10 you twenty times for this accoui
DO you ever intend to pay III" The debt
/. answered Eyes, intend to pay It," We
:" said the creditor, will you please tell y
when you will pay II !" Tho debtor rcpllc'
DO you think am prophet that Gun for
;. tell future cventsT