The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-02-09
Editorial and Otherwise.

Editorial and OtlerWlSe.
He says it is the sea coast air that did it.
A dwarf only Ii inches high is the latest.
The New Anio aqueduct at Rome was So
niles long.
Getting to the root of the matter-digging
or potatoes.
The arm crutch is in the fashion even in the
Crescent city.
Terrific wind storms are reported along the
Atlantic coast.
Woman's virtue and mans honor are the
brides of worth.
The friends of the chronic borrower are few,
md growing fewer.
With some people the nuptal knot can
hardly be called family tie.
Paying customs duties by check may be de-
,cribed as check on smuggling.
The root of the brier is the only wood which
locs not burn when exposed to fire.
The suspicious of some jealous mortals are
Two or three sizes too large for them.
Horseradish is said to be cure for the grip,
md to afford almost immediate relief.
The tariff raises the duty on diamonds from
10 per cent under the bill to 80 per cent.
The House has passed the specific repeal of
the reciprocity clause of the Mckinley act.
Mitchell has one consoling thought left him.
lie is still able to whip anybody in England.
The sharp man never works his own rabbit
foot. He has his lieutenants to operate it for
him.
New York bankers have decided to purchase
the $50 900 900 in bonds issued by Secretary
Carlisle.
Cornelius Vanderbilt has given one million
dollars to religious work during the past two
years.
The cooks of an Eastern city talk of apply
ing rigid civil service regulations to the lady
of the house.
Cuba claims to have the smallest bird in the
world, "ay-eater." 1t is one-third the size of
the humming bird.
According to Ayers catalogue for 1894 there
are 20 ia newspapers and periodicals pub
lished in the United States.
Close application, reflection, and the expert
ence Of years are necessary to complete sue
cess in any legitimate business.
1t is the little rivalries of life which make
all men feel akin; and the competitions of a
day which bind the ties of friendship.
Dispatches from Congo show that the Arabs
are trying to drive out the Belgians, and that
the condition of the latter is precarious.
The flow of negro emigration from Arkansas
will be checked in few months. Water
melons will be ripe in that State in June.
Some people in order to keep in the social
swim will compromise their religious obliga-
tons. "Sawciety," good Lord deliver us.
In the country newspaper you have relia-
BILE friend that does its mission at more fire.
sides than do many of the metropolitan daiies.
2 The Bell Telephone patent, issued January
80, 1877, has expired. 1t has earned millions
of dollars under its patents which compromise
the essential features of all telephones.
John Rider went coon hunting upin Missouri
the other night, and while looking up a tree for
coon, horned owl flew down and scratched
and carried away one Of his eyes.
Jas. D.. Houston, a noted politician of New
Orleans, died at his home in that city this
week He had held number of public offices
and welded as much political influence as any
man in that city.
Mr.. Neil reiterates his estimate of 2 900 900
bales for Texas, and feels sure that the aggre-
gate cotton crop will reach 700 900 bales.
The remedy for this condition is to raise more
corn and meat this year.
Anent the suggestion that the young men
should wear gloves at parties so as to avoid
soiling the dresses of those with whom they
dance, the Picayune says: Handling society
people without gloves is not the proper caper.
Bill Arp says the climate of Florida is worth
5000 an acre, but the land amt worth damn.
Bill also says that it's risky to die in Florida,
for there isn't virtue enough in the soil to
make q man rise when Gabriel blows his horn.
The tax collector of Union county Ga,
blacked up like negro and went to his own
house and robbed peddlor who was a guest
at his house, and also himself of the county's
money. AS he turned to leave the peddler
pulled his pistol and shot him dead.
The Memphis Commercial says: "Mrs.
Lease VOWS she will never let up on Gov. Le-
yelling till she drives him out of Kansas.
Mary Yellin' is cyclonic illustration of the
fact that hell hath no fury like some women,
whether they are scorned or not"
The district court at Everett, Mass, has
decided that storekeeper is guilty of keeping
gambling house who sets up in his place of
business nickle-in -the-slot machine which
may put forth cigar or present only fortune
telling card. The slot gambler must go.
The Garrison, Texas, Signal says: "Hell is
full Of newspaper men who killed themselves
blowing for some little one-horse town, and
that too, without support enough to fatten a
grasshopper. We've decided that it is sin
to lie, anyway, aud in the future we'll be found
telling the truth"
President Harper, Of tho Chicago University
is reported to have stated that the story of Cair
and Abel is a myth, with no more truth in j
so far as known than the story of the wooder