The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-05-18

Editorial and Otherwise

All good roads are poor enough for tramps. |
Only sweet words should be used over sugar
The man who borrows money borrows trou-
Bile.
The Russian thistle and the English sparrow
must 90.
A new $500 school building is to be erected
in Vicksburg.
A young man in vest he hasn't paid for is
mighty poor Investment.
Port Gibson Presbytcrians have just pur
chased $1,000 pipe organ for their church.
The postal note will be abolished July LIST,
and the money order will take its place.
Winston county horses are dying as result
of having eaten too heartily of snecze-weed.
One sign of hard times is that more UNI
brellas are being stolen this year than ever
before.
Why was Noah like hungry cat9 He went
forty days and forty nights without finding
Ara-rat.
Billie Breckenridge has been restored to full
membership in the church and promised to do
50 no more.
The Durant Democrat has suspenned again.
This time it is thought it has sure enough
gone dead, dead.
There are ten thousand licensed rum shops
in New York City, so there is no need for a
policeman going dry.
The fair editress of the Houston Free South
SAYS that "dude is like a match, because his
head is his light end"
The blind tiger business in the southern part
of the State cost the general government the
sum of SG3, 900 the past year.
Postmaster General Bissell has formulated
policy to prevent saloon keepers and bar
tenders from being appointed postmasters.
A Married Mans Club has been recently or
ganzed in Chicago having for lis object the
discussion of "Th1 Tyranny OF Women"
BY order of the United States Court, the
Memphis Appeal Avalanche will be sold to
the highest bidder ON Monday, June 4, 1894.
William Mittendort, of Chicago, tried to
shoot himself because he could attain no
higher rank than corporal in the Coxeyte
army.
The city council of Canton has appropri-
atrd $ll 900 for the erection of IA school build
ing and expects to have it ready for the fall
session.
Little strcaks of sunshine,
Little birds that sing,
Aren't the most reliable
IIarbingers of spring.
The stockholders of the Kinds County Bank,
located at Bolton, Miss, have decided to close
shop, simply because they are making no
money.
The Knights of Pythias have just laid the
corner stone of grand University at Gallatin'
Tenn. 1t will cost S25O,OOO and is beng built
by the order.
| A man in Florida has pair Of young eagles
trained to carry his little son through the air
in basket. This is solution of the ploblem
Of aerial navigation.
American miners who resort to dynamite
and the torch to bring the mineowners to
terms, are on level with French anarchists,
and deserve the same treatment.
| The artificial rain making experiment is
soon to be put in operation again. This time
by the Rock Island Railroad Company in the
arid regions OF Western Kansas.
1t was fitting tribute indeed, that the first
monument ever reared bv women to woman
should be in commemoration of the virtues of
"Mary, the mother of Washington"
Woman suffrage is not very popular in New
York. At Newberg, that State, the women,
when they voted for the first time, defeated a
$4,000 appropriation fora new court house.
Out in Nebraska the Burlington railroad
offered gang of sevcnty-ive commonwealcrs
work at $l.5Oa day. Sixteen of them accepted,
but the rest preferred to tramp and beg cold
grub.
Dealers in "hopfen tea," a rival beverage to
"hopfen weiss" have been arrested in Meri-
dian for violating the liquor law. The drink
is said to contain seven per cent. alcohol, about
the same as in lager beer.
1t reported that Senator Mcpherson was so
much offended at some remark of Senator
Hill in the committee room few days ago
that in the heat of passion he slapped the New
York Senator's face.
South Carolina is strictly "dry" State
now. The State jumped from the dispensary
to absolute free whiskey. After reign of
whikey few weeks the Supreme Court has
decided that absolute prohibition is in force in
that State.
Counting all the bands of struggling, strug-
Cling Coxeyites that are roaming over the
country, there are only about 5000 of the
"army." 1t tisnoticeable that most of them are
recruited from the West, where populism most
fourishes.
The Raymond Guzette last week celebrated
its fittieth anniversary. 1t is an old and excel
lent newspaper. We trust the Gazette in the
able hands Of our esteemed young friend Sam
d. Harper may survive many years more.
A Iillsboro (,rex.) man has sued for a di-
vorcc on the ground that as he is a Democrat
and his wife Republican they cannot live in
harmony. No matter what the Populists say,
it is evident that the old party spirit is still
alive in this country.
The Texas State Court of Appeals has de-
cided that the laws prohibiting prize fighting
in the State are null and void because of fatal
defects in their drafting. The only penalty
now enforcibe in Texas is a small fine for as.
sault and battery.
The postofllce authorities haye been called
upon to decide whethdr the history of the
Breckenridge cascd is too obscene to be al
lowed in the mails. II has been published in
book form by Chicago firm and the Chicago
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