The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-07-06
N, MISSISSIPPI, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1894.
Editorial and Otherwise,

Lots of fashionable women are going about [
now without gloves.
Sam Jones SAYS Congress is "mixtry"
about half fool and half rascal.
More than rour-6fths of last years murder
ers were men Of no occupation.
The good that is IN a man is like the money
that is in bank, valueless if not circulated.
A woman will or she won't, but whether she
will or she won't, she will, just the same.
Generally the more aimless boy is the bet
ter he likes to run around with shotgun.
Folding fans were invented in Japan, and
were suggested by the way in which bat
closes its wings.
| It is asserted that in 90 cases out Of 100 the
left side of the human face is the more perfect
in outline.
The Washington Post pretends to believe
that Coxey will be the most available Demo-
catic leader in 1896.
German pcstoffice employees ARE not permit
ted to marry without the special permission of
the governmrnt. As
A machine for counting coins has been put
into use at the Philadelphia mint. 1t can
count 1000 coins in a minute.
Chicago is now yearning for first-class
blizzard. The streets are baked to crisp,
and pedestrians are as brown as berries.
Capt. Thos. b. Sykes, one Of the most emf
nent lawyers Of East Mississippi, died at his
home in Aberdeen few days since.
A conservative estimate places the loss to
the country from the great coal strikes Of the
past two months at $2O, 100000.
One of the vanderblts has just paid $1,000
for cat. The present generation of the Van
derbilts is very amusing one.
Mississippi heads the graduating list of
West Point this year. Our State may be
little slow, but she gets there just the same.
At the end of each hair Of cats whiskers
is a bulb Of nervous substance which converts
J the hair into extremely delicate feelers.
The smallest woman now on earth is Mile.
paulina, of Holland, Is years old, and twenty
inches high. She weighs less than nine
: pounds.
II is said that the Orthodox church of Russia
!. is rich enough to pay the 81 ,OOo, ,Ooo, 900 ma
tional debt Of Russia and not mpovorish
itself.
= By an English invention camcl's hair, cotton
plant and chemicals are being substituted for
leather in machinery betting with considera.
BILE success.
A western exchange says Georgia mar
"sold his vote for dollar" 1t seems, from
the article, that votes bring a dollar and Q
!. half out west.
The assassin of President Carnot, Santo, il
to be tried on the Odd of July. 1t Is prett,
safe to predict that he will be guillotned be
fore the lst Of August.
:. Judge Payne has decided in the Prendcr
gast case that the defense must prove that tn
o' prisoner, ifinsane, became so after his convic
tion, otherwise the verdict must stand.
Charcoal powder, Il laid fat on a burn, vii
cause the pain to abate Immediately. D.
- leaving it on for an hour the burn seem
nearly healed, If it is superficial.
Let your words be well weighed consde
whether the thing itself should be spoken
whether it should be spoken against this pei
Y. son; whether this be the proper time for sue
NJ, n speech.
Murders, burglaries, train robbing, stor
vs. robbing, general cussedness and the old tim'
os' honored jury system, still abide in the land
=, the free and the home Of the brave.
dd Paris, Texas, will soon head the list in Il
way Of hangings, six men having been sel
~. fenced to be hung there on the 2Sth Of Sc
~ tember. Three Of them are white, the 9th
lst three being negroes.
ws W, The Louisiana legislature has passed b
prohibiting any intermarriage between Il
- white and black races. Now the Pelican Sta
= is in line with the other Southrn States.
A prominent fiber manufacturer Of n,
E York is at st. Augustine, Fla, looking in
the properties of the plmetto roots. The col
Ks mittee on tanning factories Of the board
trade is furnishing him with information.
fS At the close of the present fiscal year the
AN will be a saving of $25, 100000 on account
9N pensions. And there could be saving
,lS $50, ,000, 900 without wronging the old sold
a. in the slightest.
IA St. Louis beats them SO far in official RI
'T cality. The morgue keepers have been r,
a. bing the dead, on the principle, probably, Il
ssN money belongs to this world, and is no use
w the other.
~ The urban population Of the country; 4
~ is, the population living in towns Of 1000
y upwards, constituted, in 1890, 1920 per &C
w Of the whole. In 1870 the percentage Of url
~ population was 2.35.
ssM Nevada is the most sparsely settled st,
r. There are nearly two and half square m
e to each inhabitant next comes Idaho, "
- one inhabitant 70 each square mile. Mont
~ and Wyoming each has les than one.
The new French President, NJ. Casin
Perir, is man Of ability, dignity and gr
political astuteness. He is a moderate rcp
lican, and desires more cordial relations
tween the Catholic church and the govcrnn
than now exist.
win the sweet girl graduate roll up
sleeves and wash the dishes for her dear
|un mother She will not. Why will she
pray! Because the sweet girl graduate
lovely soft white arms and never wears
sleeves 70 roll up whatever.
r. The times are all right,
Or the times are all wrong
So runs the proverb,
So runs the song.
But little II matters,
In freeze or in fame;