The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-02-24
Editorialand Otherwise.

The steam printing press was invented by
Richard Hoe in lS42.
An enemy can be killed quicker with love
than he can with bullet.
On the lst of January, 1898, there were 93l,-
$50 pensioners on the rolls.
Only nineteen pieces of real estate are de-
linquent for taxes in Adams county this year.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of the
State OF Mississippi will meet in Jackson May
ID.
The moment we begin to think somebody
else has no religion we lose good deal Of our
own.
Congressman Herbert of Alabama is now
spoken of as Clevelands Secretary Of the
Navy.
And now Boston is talking to Chicago over
the telephone wires. The distance is ,lsO
miles.
Ninety per cent. of the manufacturing labor
of the country, it is stated, is produced by ma
chinery.
The estimated value Of the honey and wax
in the United States during the year 1892, is
$40, ,oOO, 900.
1t is said that Meridian has gained 1900 in
population since January 1872. The people
now number 1900.
The young man on the lookout for a "soft
place" through dislike for hard work, can
find one under his hat. D..
The King of Spain is suffering from severe
attack of inflammation of the gums. His Maj
esty is cutting his teeth.
The prosperous condition of the lumber
trade ought to show that the country is in a
good and Aourishing condition.
If hoop-skirts are coming back in fashion,
the girls will have to abandon the use of ham
mocks, at least in public places.
| Algernon Sartoris, the Englishman whose
marriage with Nellie Grant while her father
was President caused a sensation, is dead.
A poodle in Elkton, KY, has just died from
licking its mistress's cheeks. The girl paint
ed and the poodle died of poison, of course.
Hawaii's flag bears.sripes of red, white and
blue--a sort of outward and visible sign that
the little isle has kind of affinity for the
great republic.
Judge Gresham is near GO years old. lie is
not in very rugged health, and is inamoderat(
pecuniary circumstances. His place on the
bench is life position.
Editor Hoke Smith, of the Atlanta journal
will be Mr.. Cleveand's Secretary of the Int
rior. Being and editor and Southerner, his
appointment is an excellent one.
One by one new grounds for divorce ar,
coming to the front. The latest Isl that of tht
young Illinois woman who claims to have beer
married under hypnoctic influences.
A man in Copiah county, Miss, was con
victed in three cases of selling lqnor contrar,
to law took his case to the Supreme Cour
and has had them affirmed. The penalties ag
gregate 81 500 and eighteen months in tn
county Jail.
1t is said that Tennessee justice of tn
peace has written the governor to know if h
the iustice-has the power to grant divorce
and il not, why not ? 1t seems that he had al
ready granted several, and the lawyers wer
after him.
Cabot, Ark, boasts of the most diminutiv
young lady probably in the South. Miss lie
ma Jones is 10 years of age, 90 inches high an
weighs 80 pounds. She will visit the World
Fair.
Col. Oliver G. Dease, an old and prominer
citizen of Paulding, Jasper county, Miss, die
on the Sth inst, at his son-in-law's, Col. ia.
J. Shannon, in Meridian, at the ripe age of
!. years.
Meteorological history records the year l.
35 as the coldest the world has experience
. since the glacial period. Spring came on
the last days Of June, Of that year, in. the ten
perate zone.
a q A Texas editor wants a law passed compel
j. ing actors to wear clothes on the stage.
will be necessary first to provide against Il
l. numerous stage robberics for which the Lol
Star State is notorious.
= Senator Hill, of New York, says that Il
? whole financial question lies in fixing the r
ito between gold and silver. lie is bi-me
alist, but wants the goldites TO-. agree upon
ratio between the two money metals.
From statistics covering the last thirty-ty
years, II is computed that the average life
women in France has been thirty EIGHT yea
and of men thirty-s years. During the Ia
year, however, the average rose to forty yea
for both sexes.
Rev. s. X. Griffin is daisy, says the De
nison Herald. Judge Cook and Mr.. Tibl
= candidates for the city judgeship, received o
OF Of the reverend gentlemans epistles recent
IA He is very modest. For the sum Of $25
agreed to pray for them and urge their elt
tion from the pulpit.
There is in Huntsville, Ala, a wonder
nuubu ucink-u Cutiosity ."hu I" uohstiooi
' A young woman 10 years old, weighing
pounds, with fairly well developed he
though devoid of human intelligence. /
body and limbs are spider-lke and ossi6cd.
, A cubit foot Of hewed or sawed timber
. equal to twelve superficial feet, all luml
IL measurement being based on the unit Of
inch boad one foot square. This statement
not new, but II comes mighty handy to rec
=. lect when figuring on dimension stuff or Il
- - Der squared by the broadaxe or saw mill.
DIS The Memphis Scimitar gets of the follow
good one "The ignorance Of Europe conce
M ing this country sometimes costs them ds
For instance, Florcntine bank has just fal
u for 100000 lire, when II could have drawn
this republic for 100000 liars, and they y
. ! a. vvnuld n naips sad ~