The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-01-26
Editorial and Otherwise.

Some OF these days skies will be brighter.
blush is beautiful, but often inconvenient.
A man cannot save time by stopping his
watch.
Henry Watterson says this is an age of little
men.
small mini has usually plenty of room for
pride.
That labor is sweet is no sign that rest is
bitter.
Men may acquire reputation, but character
is Inherited. s
What a woman thinks is a sandwich with
words between.
Twenty -four persons die annually in Eng
land from dog bites.
Give every man justice whether his coat is
cut to suit you or not.
To marry for love and miss it, hurts more
than to marry for money and miss it.
People have been known to die for those they
love, but not for those who love them.
Dyspepsia makes a man feel like he is dead
and his monument erected on his chest.
Some tramps have so much on their hands to
do that they never have time to wash them.
The Picayune says Congress is run on tho
barber shop plan. All bills must wait their
turn.
You can't tell what a man will do in horse
trade by the amount of noise he makes in
church.
Society note: Striped stockings will be
worn longer this season. People are too poor
to buy more than one pair.
The Savannah Press is being sued for the
modest sum of $40 600. Verify, the newspaper
business is ooking.up!
II is estimated that there are fully 1000 Chi
namen resident in the internal revenue district
composed of the States Of Mississippi and
Louisiana.
The London Times says that the last year
has been one of the most trying years in the
commercial and financial experience of Eng
land. &N
The daily lottery that has sprung in New
Orleans is giving the authorities down there
no end of trouble, and great numbers Of arrests
are being constantly made.
W. B. Gardner has curiosity IN the form ol
a fruit tree in his grove at Fort Meade, Fla. II
bears oranges on one side and grape fruit on
the other, each side having been budded differ
entity.
Mr.. J. W. Armfeld, of High Point, N. c.,
swallowed an oyster shell, while eating oysters,
which was an inch square and sharp on both
edges. Physicians succeeded at last in pump
ing the shell out of his throat.
The cigarette craze has taken such strong
hold on the girls of Emporia, Kansas, that the
council of that place propose to put such a
heavy license tax in the sale of these articles
that it viii amount to prohibition.
We don't believe the story that Texas
woman set speckled hen on dried apple pie
and in three weeks the hen hatched ont four
teen nightmares with blue ribbons on their
tails.
An Indiana woman who hadn't spoke for
twcnty-three years aroused her husband just
before the dawn Of 1894 by screaming aloud
his name, since when she has talked volubly.
Near Birmingham, Ala, man on retiring
for the night heard strange noise from his
chimney, and discovered the Mks of man
dangling therefrom. He hastily lit fire and
scorched the fellow considerably before he
released him.
By an order issued recently by Governor
Lewelling, of Kansas, only married men will
be retained on the police force at Leavenworth,
in that State. This order may have the effect
of encouraging matrimony in spite Of the hard
times.
There are thirty-two land barOns in Louis
lana whose holding aggregate 2 500 900 acres
in bodies of from 20 900 to 40 900 acres, and
what IS worse most of them are aliens, ind-
viduals, corporations and syndcates.
A lady at Cannonville, N. c., fonnd snake
in her stove nicely Drowned and toasted II
seems that the snake had gone into winter
quarters in hollw stick Of wood. The good
lady in order to have her wood nice and dry ia
cook breakfast with Put it in the stove the
night before.
That was an amusing scene in the House oi
Representatives when Mr.. Bowers, Of Califor-
MIA, threw native grapes to brother Congress-
men, in order to give persuasion to his argu.
ment in favor of the retention Of the present
duty on the fruit. 1t was a case Of taking
California wine in pills.
Never tired singing
Of the good, good times
Seem to be a-wingin'
Through the world on rhymes!
Kccpin' up the jingle,
Like the ring O. dimes
Till the world shall tingle.
With the good, good times.
The order Of the United States Judges Il
Alaska to arrest all white men in that TERRITORY
living with women to whom they are not Law
fully married, has resulted in the arrest o
three -fourths Of the population, and thu
jails OF the territory are insufficient to hold tn
prisoners, but when the cases come to tria
| the verdicts will be on a par with that Of tn
old hog thief.
The following from the vicksburg Post, ]
just as applicable to Scranton as i Is Z
vicksburg. Everybody in vicksburR shoul'
turn over new leaf in regard to patronizini
home industries and home establishments
Money sent to distant cities, ssordcr to save
few cents, or even few dollars, never conc
back again, and the people here who practic
this sort Of economy, injure themselves in tn
long run"