The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-07-27
Editorial and Otherwise

The earthquake "shakes" continue in Turkey
nd quininc has gone way up.
New York is broken out all over with the
Ieat and even the ice carts are perspiring.
Mrs. s. Grant visited Mrs. Jefferson Davis
It Narragansett Pier one day last week.
There is as little mercy in stabbing with a
word as there is in doing it with a knife.
A Connecticut woman sprained her tongue
he other day. A misfortune worse than
ieath Her husband has left her.
The board of councimen Of the city of Meri-
lan have icreased the rate of taxation from IL
to 10 mills.
Railroad men at Chicago are estimating
their damage by the strike at from $5,OOo,OOo
to $s,OOo,0oO
The Louisiana Legislature increased the
leyee tax on cotton from fifty cents to one dol
lar per bale.
Edison, the inventor, has never carried
watch in his life. lie says he has never wanted
to know the time.
time journalism is recalled in the forced
publication of a late issue of the Whiting, Ind,
News on wall paper.
Mr.. pullman's manager says he is author
lied to take back all the old employees who de-
sire to return to work.
President Cleveland does not expect to join
Mrs. Cleveland at Gray Gables until after the
adjournment OF Congress.
Cholera is steadily spreading in northern
Europe to the increasing alarm OF the people
throughout the continent.
During the dull season the West Point
Leader ensmas, when business is good II
spreads out to twenty columns.
If you see anything in this paper that pleaseS
you don't speak of it, but if you see anything
you don't like abuse the editor.
Utah will the forty fifth State in the Union
She has population of over 100000 and
debt of less than $500 600.
Jack Edwards, a negro preacher oi ives
Paint, has been sentenced to the penitentiar,
for life Tor an unmentionable crime.
The bill which permits Utah to apply TO
Admission to the Union, guarantees religion
freedom, except as to bgamy and polygamy.
Congressman Catchings was renominate
last Thursday at Vicksburg. The conveniio
| adoptcd resolutions endorsing the admins
tration.
Mr.. Jesse Bounds, of IIattiesburg, announce
that he will not be a candidate for Congress
from the Sixth District, but will support th
nominee.
Lettuce was eaten by the anclcnts at tn
close of meals, as, from its cooling quality,
was considered an antidote to the heatn
effects of wine.
If YOU have a horse with the big head, woul
advise YOU t" pasture him on white clover, a
that is the best treatment when the clover ca
be obtained.
Electrical weaving machines are in nse
Germany. Seamless stockings with doub
heels are ratified ont of each machine at tt
rate of eleven pairs an hour.
From 1884 to 1856 the style of hair-drcssir
in Paris changed seventeen times, and we
from the extreme of short curls and skt
cap to hat three feet broad
A statistician says that there are only 3
women to 1000 men in Hong Kong. The wor
an who can't maintain her rights in that cou
try doesn't deserve any rights.
The human race is increasing at the rate
10000, 600 yearly, and still an exchange su
gests that every new father thinks his one
worth all the other 29,999,999 put together.
Whose neglects thing which he suspet
he ought to do because it seems to him
small thing is dcciving himself. u is r
! too little, but too great for him that he doe
, it not.
A citizen of North Carolina recently dra
seventeen bottles of Jamaica ginger at O
sitting. 1t isl question now as to what ki
of stomach that man has or what kind
ginger that was.
The State Annual encampment Of the NJ
: sissippi National Guard will be held at Me
dian, beginning August goth. Meridian p,
up $1,000 for the encampment, and the be
will put up the balance.
: The Durango Democrat notices the fact Il
Pullman, Carnegie, Frick, Depew, Vanderb
| Tbnpct.,u in, faat al
the corporate managers who are schemng
: rattle and crush labor are "leading Republ
ans"
Congressman Paschal Of Texas, never spt
truer than when he said: "The demagogu,
: in Congress and the Press and among a re
less, shallow, low order of politicians is
sponsble for much of the contempt for
forms of law and government" :"
"Old Glory" is now entitled, with the adm
, sion of Utah as State, to forty-Rve stars
! her blue field. New Mexico will no doubt $,
be admitted to the sistcrhood of States, VIII
should have been consumated long since, {
then still another star will have to be addes
A Greenville special says Gen. :. W. +
guson's shortage as treasurer OF the Le
Board will not exceed $2l,332.95, but that q
Ferguson, who says he will make an earn
effort to procure funds to replace the amo
! of his shortage, is not in Greenville, nnd
exact whereabouts are not known by the
eral public, and SO Ear as known no le
effort is being made to secure his return.
Now that the strike is over
Now that the war is done;
Cows--they are still in clover,
And railroad trains on the run!
So, you will see, It's idle
To block this old world for day;
An that we want is the bride,
And the horse will speed Oh his way