The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-12-22
Editorial andOtherWiSe.
Old age thinks backward.

d. NJ. Dcnt takcs tne Sllnps0n county pau /
pers at "a per month. ,
Tackled to the bill admitting Utah to State
hood is an amendment prohibiting polvgamy.
If you would have good time in heaven,
don't try too hard to have good time on
earth.
There are two things talkatiye person can
not keep. One Of them is silence and the other
a secret
A Scotch boy named Vernon has invented
contrivancc by which cannon balls in fight are
photographed.
Nearly all the Georgia weekly editors are
returning thinks for fat turkey gobblers and
bushels of potatoes.
The Legislature of Mississippi meets on
Tuesday, January 2, 1894, the session to last
only thirty days.
II you are merchant, don't advertise, but
buy II rubber stamp and use it that looks
looks like business.
The grip this year in Philadelphia is attack
ing freely youngsters and babies, say the ply
sicans of that city.
Kansas, already the home of cranks,
about to become the paradise of tramps. Gov.
Lewelllng was once tramp.
Ed Carney, the man who captured Rube Bur
rows and jim Cummings, died from the effects
Of gunshot wound, in Chicago, Saturday.
The acknowledgement recommends the
discontinuance of postal notes. He claims that
the money order system answers all purposes.
1t costs the government about $4,000 a
year to feed the crew of frst-class man of
war. A navy is a luxury that comes rather
high. W.
An exchange saws that "baggy trousers
conceal bo0ms." What the average editor
wants is baggy trousers that will conceal poy-
erty.
If about 1900 Republican Office -holders
would follow the example of Mr.. Van Allen and
resign, the country would be Supremacy
happy.
Owing TO the low price Of cotton the Board
Of Control has reduced the price Of convict la
Dor to $a per month for negroes and 81 for
whites.
The W. G. 7. U. throughout the United
States will observe Dee. % as Crusade Day,
it being the 2oth celebration OF the Woman's
Crusade.
Chairman Hatch Of the Agricultural Com
mittee, announces that the anti-optons bill
will certainly be presented to the House again
this session.
The wealth of the south in 1850 was $4,000
100000, and in 1890 abont the same. What
the figures will be ten years hence it is hard
to conjecture.
tits said that useful Christmas presents
viii be the fashion this year. This goes to
show that fashion and common sense are not
always antagonistic.
You may rail at the nation
Say Nancy is slim;
But the Christmas relation
Is still in the swim!
After the football is over
: After the field is clear
Straightcn my nose and shoulder,
: Help me to find my ear.
Mobile has new daily newspaper, SAYS the
jackson Clarion-L Ledger, and adds "Mobic,
: like good many other places in the country,
has more papers already than it supports"
1t is estimated that there arc fully 100000
: | 4 Al.
ditions were brought about by the financial
troubles Of last summer and the consequent
sussension Of manufactures.
All the BOYS in the Winona, Mimi, Normal
School parted their hair in the mAde 'tothei
day, and the faculty made them depart and re.
part il all the side. Didn't that faculty ex.
coed its rights somewhat?
!, Patronze outside newspapers to the exclu.
sion of your own, pay for your county paper II
country produce and charge two prices after
taking the paper two or three years, and thcr
;. denounce it for not being as large as the city
Il papars. es
" The total number of Mississippi convicts OF
hand are 676, but large number Of these, ow
ing to old age and bodily inhrmities, are unii
for manual labor. About 5lj have been lease,
to various parties from 1G to 100 in Il svuad.
State Revenue Agent Adams, has entcrc,
suit against the Illinois Central and Yaxoo
. Mississippi Valley Railroads in the Hind
il, county Circuit Court for 100000 for ad valo
10 rem and and priyilege taxes for the year 1899
: Abram s. Hewitt denounccs the propose
Il income tax levy as "practically the worst forr
:. of taxation that has ever been devised in this
IL and that 'the proposed modification BY whicl
it will be limited to corporations is evcl
worse than general income tax"
D. c. II. Swan, Of Potwin, Kansas, who hal
u kept weather record for hfty-sx years
'e claims that We will hayc warm open winte
y with only few days cold at a time, and thu
~ ~ next summer will bring destructive hot wind
ur and serious drouth.
Secretary Carlisle has ordcaed the removs
ola number Of Republican officials who dc
cned to send in their designations when re
quested to do so. Secretary Carlisle Is on
: Cabinet officer who Is making up for lost time
Let others profit by his example and "tur
i, the rascals ont"
The following figures, which have neve
l., been published before, are taken from ad
vanccd sheets Of tee Auditors report and NJ
interesting as showing the number Of exemI
=" stock there is in Mississippi. The large nun