The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-01-12
Editorial and Otherwise.


the ladder OF knowledge.
New York city has perfected arrangements
to feed 10000 poor people every day.
The pleasant weather this Christmas ex-
tended over Europe as well as America.
Gladstone, the Prime Minister Of England,
celebrated his Slth birthday Christmas.
The man who works the hardest for the least
pay is the one who has the biggest fortune.
The Baltimore Sun wants a tax of$l0 head
imposed ON bachelors to help out the deficit,
the Wilson bill will create.
In railroad construction Mississippi Jagged
behind all other Southern States last year,
having built but ten miles Of new road.
II is estimated that over COCOON people have
moved out of the State since the close Of the
war, and yet the population has increased.
Charity is one of the few things that is JUS
tilted in not Advertising, though even charity
can set good example by letting its good
deeds be known.
James Gordon Bennett, editor Of the New
York Herald, says that the averege life Of a
managing editor Of the great dailies is only five
years.
After an existence ofncarly thirty years the
Memphis Public Ledger has succumbed to
the hard times, and has passed into the hands
of the sheriff
An old colorcd woman Of Rankin county is
SAID to be 1873 years old. She remembers Sec
ing George Washington, and the red coat
Britishers, during the Revolution.
II is estimated that the income tax will af.
feet but $4,000 people in this country, and its
advocates at Washington claim that it is tht
farest and most equitable mode Of taxation.
Rev. J. B. Stratton, Presbyterian minister
in Natchez, is now nearly eighty years of age
Last week he preached his fifticth annual ser
mon.
New Orleuns is making bitter fight agains
the bucket shops, who pay no license, ant
who have opened up IN full bloom sine the de
parture Of the state lottery.
An encore dses not always mean that thu
audience is pleased with the song and want'
to hear it again. II may mean that the singe
needs practice and should try again.
?. s. Pinchback, (col.), Of Louisiana, Of re-
construction not torety, has just purchased
very handsome house in one Of the most fash
ionable districts of Washington City.
Land was sold in Chicago at a higher rat,
than in new York, $4,000 per square foot, n
against $4,000. Aquarter Of an acre in tn
heart of the town is worth 81 ,25O,0D0.
| A New York captain describes the latest Sc
serpent AS emitting a buzzing sound from its
head. The captain mluskhave been wrestling
with old Dexter the time he saw 1.-THE buz
xing.
The Denver, Colorado, Republican, says tha
notwithstanding the depression in silver min
ing the condition Of affairs in that State i
much better than in any Of the Eastern States
The Twenty sixth Annual Convention Of tn
National American Woman Suffrage Associa
tion will BE- held in Washington, D. c., j
Metxroot's Music Hall, February IL to 20 in
elusive, 1894.
Mrs. Annie D. Smith, Of Canton, Miss, ha
given $500 to Millsaps' College at jackson t.
cndow the Jefferson Davis scholarship" il
honor Of her uncle, the late exConfedcrat
chcftain.
Down in Mexico an old man named Brow
makes living by peddling coiiins on mul
cart. Cofiins are bought from him by fami
lies at a distance from town and stored ava
for possible use.
Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease is now after Govcrn'
Icwelling with very sharp stick and vow
that she will make II warm for him. Old ma
Lease should feel thankful, because he wi
now obtain much needed rest.
Senator PETERS proposition to appropra
$63, 900 900 to relieve the destitute is not incor
sistent with economy from his point Of vie,
lie holds that money should come easy froi
printing press and 20 easy in paternal cal
Of the people.
You may call II the. "auenza,'t the "grip,",
any name;
But it's ridin' round the country, and II &c
there just the same
II puts the high an lowly on terms with pa,
and pills;
It's congh, an then it's cofiin'--an' then Il
doctor bills
Prospective brides may be interested
learn that there are thirty-two days in the ye
on which, It is said, It is unlucky to marr
They are: January !, 2, 40, 7, 10, 10; Fe
ruary 8, 7,s; March ], o, N April 9, II NJ
s, 81; June I, Is; July 6, 10; August II, !
September 81; October6; November Is, 1
and December, 10, l6, II.
: Aint no use in grievin'
r Over these hard ×
Amt no use in weavin'
Ofyour mournful rhymes.
Amt a bit O. good In III
Neither bread nor wood in ity
But the way to do
, Roll your shirt sleeves higher up;
Loose the brakes and fire up
Then, 10 steamin' through!
Dry goods merchants need not worry the
selves much by fear that the new tariff will
into effect on March lst. Congress will
doing remarkably well, observes the Philsd
'' phia Ledger, II II should get through within
bill in timc to have II take effect on July Il
The committee could, however, relieve the b.
mess apprehsusions BY fixing . late date
4 Tho hill 10 take effect.