The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-10-12
Editorial and Otherwise.

A fat man though not pima Is coWpeHeu 10
feel his weigh.
To be found in bad company is often equiva-
lent to being lost.
A man seems wiscst to himself at seventeen
to others at sixty.
There are educated pigs, but there are none
chat do not like mud.
The bear can never see the use of high |
fence around the pig pen.
John l.. Sullivan is going to retire from the
stage and take to farming.
Sixty thousand acres in this country are
devoted to celery growing.
The most distant relatives are not always
those who live farthest away.
The A. & NJ. College opened with 2S4 stu
dents. Last year there were 256.
Mississippi will return a solid and nnbroken
Democratic delegatian to the 5ith Congress.
If the Chinaman can hit Jap as easily as
he can hit pipe he will be all right in the
army.
Drowning men catch at straws, but they do
not grasp them with the avidity of men who
are trying to drown sorrow.
Pinchback, the negro Ex-Governor of Louis-
lana, says thst State will go Democratic not
wihstanding the sugar bolt.
A movement is on foot to place on the wall
of every public school in the United States
the portrait of George Washington.
Stock -raisers in the drouth stricken portions
of Kansas are bringing their stock to Missis-
sippi to pasture through the winter.
What is the difference between a swiss
mountaineer and dandrutf? One scales The
| Alps and the other scaels the scalps.
The President has by proclamation pardonet
all Mormons who have been behaving them
selves during the last four years.
Hoke Smith is cnergetically Strengthening
Georgia against the free silver craze. and the
Popuists are becoming very unpopular
The Newton County Progress says if yo'
will carefully examine an independent yor
will find Populite tick or Republican flea.
AT recent wedding in Mokane, Mo-, thu
groom's name was Abraham Lincoln Strck
land and that Of the officiating clergyman wal
jefferson Davis Greer.
The planet Mars is now about 5O,Oo0,oo
miles from the earth and is rapidly drawing
nearer. By the 18th of October it will b
somewhere about 100000 miles away.
The rolls in the Auditors Office ofths Stat
show that about 5000 -Confederates hav
applied for pensions, who, with the presen
appropriation of SG7 800, receive only S27.z
each annually.
Three Monroe county white men have bee
sentenced to terms in the pcniten,iary TO
white Gaping. Their crime was whipping tw
women, one of whom was the wife of one {
the cowardy Williams convicted.
Judge Culberson, the Democratic nomine
for Governor Of Texas, says the free coina2
| ti SILVER W tht bHilEu NihttS AZ ~ w - W.
maintain the parity, and he is heartily in fave
oft He thinks Texas is a unit for free coil
age.
. Joaquin Miller is raisiug a mile Of roses {
his California farm. He believes that peop
, live too close together, and has four sma
houses on his ranch-one for his mother, OF
for his brother, one for himself and anoth
for his guests.
. The tomato season at Oxford has close
The cannery has put up 100000 three -poul
I cans. In addition it put up $500 cases
, blackberries. The planters are much encou
), aged, and say they will double their crop
tomatoes next year.
There is rumor at Washington to the efft
a that the ant-TIill element of the Democra
: party in New York viii not pnt third tick
IN the field, but will try to elect the Sarato
!. ticket with the exception of Hill and in Il
way destroy his political supremacy.
Chicago, it is said, has twenty-nine m
worth over S3 600, 900, torty-one worth abe
) 81 ,o0O,O00, and 1877 plain miIlionaires. It'll
Z some $4,000 residents who will have to pay
s income tax, and the tax in the city, if flu
a collected, will amount to some $2,00o,00O
= year.
Z An encouraging feature in the financial S
: uaton is the gradual increase Of the g
reserve of the treasury. A week ago t
! amounted to a little over $56,OOO,00O; tod
= 1t is over $57 100000. When the imports
{ gold commence this increase will become M
/. marked.
y A Ke,nper county Young woman is Fl
{ believer in advertising. Two years ago
s advertised some choice watermelon seed
. rich Shreveport bachelor ordered some and
> correspondence continued, eliminating
( their marriage last week. There's moth
: like printers ink.
= Last week labor agents in Birmngh'
. Ala, shipped 800 negroes to the Massil
- Ohio, coal distfict, where they will take
place of striking white miners. Seven h
dred more are expected to follow them SO
There is bitter feeling among the 0
miners towards the newcomers, and seri
trouble is feared.
Secretary Gresham was right in decid
that Uncle Sam should not enter the adv
- tising business. Had he not stopped
advertising scheme of Director Furbish, of
Bureau of american Republics, someb
would soon have been proposing to utilize
margins of U. 8. currency and postage stai
for advertising purposes. +
Oh, the Democratic suns a-risin'.
A-risin',
NJ A-risin', M
IN. An the country looks surprisin
M, When they see that sun a-risn' Z!
all Buckle on yo' armor, believers.
en- Don't you listen to deceivers;
oo, Fer the devil deals double,
!" An he'll I'll YOU full O. trouble
Wait fer the big sunrise !