The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-03-24
Editorial and Otherwise

0OOOO00O9.
Mr. Rockefeller has now given $4,000 to Des
Moiaes College.
President Cleveland is to open the Worlds
Fair in Chicago, May t.
Mr.. Hill probably called on Mr.. Cleveland in
order to say to him, II am Democrat"
The hold-over course of treatment is very
popular with Republican office holders now.
Ed Smith, the latest graduate from the
School of Dramatic Art, has now become an
actor.
Suppose merchants should keep this notice
ply for job 2"
Men will skin one another alive in trade who
would starve rather than 60 into housebreak-
ing as a business.
The Bartender's Union, of New York, has
drunk while ow duty.
It's easy enough to say "I'm Democrat"
but its going to be mighty hard for some Of
tce-seekers to prove it.
The Chicago City Council has prohibited
the building of houses which are more than
1870 feet high, or ten stories.
An ounce of pure gold is worth S20.64 !;
therefore, ton of pure gold, which contains
$4,000 ounces, is worth $i95,3GO.
The grandest and most beautiful spots in
nature are generally reached by rough road,
and it is largely so in human life.
There is bit OF grim irony in the fact that
the ablest man in the Cabinet-Carlisle-i the
only one who is not a college graduate.
II Cleveland keeps on shaking eight thous-
and hands day, his own will get so played
out that he can't sign a commission for some
months yet.
A Georgia editor seys there is vast differ
ence between matrimony and the kingdom of
heaven, because rich man may enter the one
but hardly the other.
James Bracket was bitten by mad dog
while in Spring Place court, last week, and
upon having maidstone applied to the bite it
adhered nearly forty y-minntes.
| A North Carolina man is said to have traded
one of his boys to a neighbor for an old mule
| lie remarked on making the trade, that "tht
boy was too lazy to work and all the mule
needed was fattening."
A pie served to Charles II was made of spar
rows potatoes, eryngoes, lettuce, chestnuts
oysters, citron, artichokes, eggs, lemons, bar
berries, pepper, nutmeg, cloves, mace, cur
rants, sugar and wine.
The affairs of our civilization are in sac
need Of revision when prize fighter can ear!
in less than dozen minutes what some edu
Gated aud hard working people cannot aequir
through all the best years CT their lives.
Near Natchez, Miss, there is said to be
young girl who can beat all the young men il
that section in n foot race. She has frequent
" accomplished this feat, and now offers t.
run against the best of them in a crinoline.
A man claiming to be "an inspired prophet
is said to be preaching to the negroes of east
yrn Tennessee that the world is comingio Al
end in sixty days. He i. said to have create,
considerable cxcitemen among the eredulous
The GAINESVILLE (0hio) Daily Signal says
"Thc axe is poised in the air. The mus
cannot begin too soon." But lloke Smith
Journal says that "remoyals will be slow
and it ought surely to know something abou
it.
At Chattanooga, while husband was test
fying against his wife in a justice court, tf
wife lost control of herself and gave the hus
band beating in the presence of the justice
VIII, after looking on at the fight, discharge
the woman.
Mr.. Clevelands selection of an ex-Confeo
, crate colonel to be secretary Of the navy hi
been accepted by the Republican press in
commendable spirit of meekness. The Repu|
licans are beginning to admit that the war
> really over.
"Do We Know George Washington ?" is Il
! title of recent magazine article. The que
. lion should be answered in the negative.
the old days writer's did not handle great MI
with as much freedom as they do now. III
biographers of the present are not afraid
, tell the truth.
A Georgia man recently died from readil
patent medicine advertisements He found
reading them that he had The symptoms Of G
}, ery i'll that flesh is heir to, and becoming co
vinccd Of his inability to survive such
weight of allliction as was impending, he di
from sheer hypochondria.
Several Confederate Generals, says the
lanta Constitution, have recently discussed
question as fear cowardce 7" The predol
mating opinion is that fear is not cowardi,
n The courageous man conquers fear, the CO
If ard yields to it. General Cheatham is quot
as saving "Thc man who says he goes il
10 battle without fear is an idiot, a lunatic, or
liar"
There has been discovered on the stat,
4. books of Pennsylvania Sunday law nine
nine years old, which, if observed, will reqs
Z. the discontinuancc of Sunday newspapers
that State. A strong effort s'being made
- have the law so modified so as not to interf
with the newspapers, but of course cert
element will strenously oppose any modif
tion of such a law.
u, A Methodist preacher in south Georgia, v
recently followed the profession of an edl,
and knows what he is talking about, said
rs the pulpit the other day "a good newspa
y. sa blessing TO every community. Hav
,ss been once a newspaper man, know someth
Of its influences for good among The peopl
M visits regularly. also know something Of
trials. There are two things in the world |
{. people imagine they can do better than tn
engaged in the work. One is running ne