The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-04-27
Editorial and Otherwise.


Japan will have Worlds Fair in 1895 at
IIiygo, the old capital of the empire.
There are.7OO 900 applications for pensions
in the pension Office not yet acted on.
1t will be time wasted to undertake to preach
any higher than your own experience.
Philanthropy is often not the love of man,
but the love of being thought to love him.
You can generally tell how man would
treat Christ, if you know how he treats his
wife.
Men of earnest thought and contemplation
exercise wonderful influence over men OF
action.
The Shubuta Messenger says that over one
hundred acres have been planted in watermel-
ons around that burg.
Judge J. B. Chrisman will not let man
who is in the habit Of getting drunk SIT on a
jury in a murder case.
The baseball season has been opened in all
the leading cities of the North and West, in
cluding Washington City.
Meridian entertained several northern edi-
tors last week. They expressed themselves
well pleased with our sunny cline.
Jealousy Is the most bestail, the most fool
sh, the most Ridiculous, the most cruel, tn,
most embecie of human passions.
Brookhaven has sold to one firm the right t.
furnish beef to the citizens of that town fol
one year, receiving therefor the sum of $500.
There is baby in Columbus, o., two weeks
old that weighs 46 pound. Its mother, Mar,
Cannon, weighs less than one hundred pounds
'Tis neither wealth
Nor rank or fate,
But "get up and git"
That makes men great.
Coxey's army and tariff debate are moving
slow but sure. It's hoss and hoss betwee,
them now with big odds that Coxcy 6nishe
first.
Goodwin Smith thinks that England is o.
the verge of revolution, Democratic and SO
cialistic. But le says the United States is al
right.
A New York doctor has put up over his doc
an illuminated sign: "In all cases that d
not cure ! guarantee to pay half the funera
expenses"
Gen. WalthalPs rest from his arduous labor
in Washington has restored his health and h
expects to be able to resume his place in tn
Senate next March.
Breathes there man with soul so dead
Or fails to take good care of it,
Who's handsome or accomplished, and
Is thus far not aware of it?
Secretary Norton says there are two kind
Of farmers in this country, the political farme
| and the one who has to work hard for a living
The first, he said, enjoyed his contempt AM
the latter his respect.
A Chicago dog that answers to the name o
Patsy and had the misfortune to get lost re
Gently was identified and restored to his owne
by means of a goldcapped tooth. Some dent
ist Of the Windy city must have an occasiona
| snap.
The shoe dealers of Brazil, Ind, think o
awarding n testimonial to John &. Smith, o
that place, for the impetus he has given to thu
shoe trade. He is the father Of thirty -iv,
children, all of whom are alive and shufIln,
out shoe leather.
Speaking of the professional agitator, th'
discussor of "fenancc," ETC., who PERIODICAL!
bobs up, the Meridian News says: "lIis nam,
is Demagogne he travels under the alias o.
"patriot," but you can always identify him b!
his mouth he makes great noise with it,"
N. Kufosse, a French savant, declares tha
fishes can talk. They can, he says, produc'
certain sounds at will by the vibration of Ger
tain specially designed muscles. These vibra
tions are caused by little air bladder, whicl
is alternately d,stended and exhausted.
Says a Washington special Of Monday: 81
was pathetic scene in the Senate while Sena
tor Ransom was feelngly speaking OF tn
death Of his colleague, Senator Vance. Sena
tors Pugh, Blackburn, and several of tn
Sothern Senators, who had known Mr.. vanc,
for years, wept like children"
An Indiana man who successfully courted
Chicago widow now declines to marry her o
the ground that she is older than he though
that she is over 40 and is grandmother
Now the widow, who thinks she made grea
concession by promising to marry a hoosicr
has brought suit for $40 600 Of his gold.
The smallest inhabited island in the world |
that on which the Eddystone Lighthous
stands. At low water it is thirty feet in dian,
etcr at high water the lighthouse, the diane
ter Of which at the base is 2sA feet, completed
covers the island. II is inhabited by nine per
sons. II lies nine miles of the Cornish Coast
aud fourteen miles southwest Of Plymout
brcakwater.
The Tupelo journal, which never fails +
ring the bell when 1t shoots, has this to sa
about Democrats elected to Congress who
not stay there and attend to their busine IS
"The lower house Of Congress had to suspen
business again last week for the lack Of quo
rum. All absent members were telcgraphe
for at the expense Of the people. lfa State a
county official should close up his Office an
10 of in pursuit Of his private affairs, th
people would FIRE him at the first opportunit,
and there Is M reason why they should b
more lcnicnt with Congressman who mani
TESTS aud unblushng disregard for his onicis
duiirs.