The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1894-02-02
Editorial and Otherwise.

Legal executions in Mexico are by shooting,
and take place in the prison yard.
Some girls don't like to be squeezed in a
everybody is locking.
The kcrosine can is the only thing that can
raise our hired girls to higher elevation.
The buzz saw is generally temperate, but
once in while it takes "two or three fingers"
That which is gained by fraudulent dealing
is often lost with big interest in the same
manner.
An Illinois man. named Storms has named
his three sons Hale Storms, Rayne Storms
and Snow Storms.
The United States government spent &c.
600 900 o month more than its income during
the last six months of 1893.
There is no use in any young man being too
fresh, as the annual salt product of the world
amounts to 100000 tons.
OF $4,000 persons one arrives at the age of
100 years, of 800 one attains the age of 80, and
one in 100 lives to the age Of 60.
That man who Keeps his promises, pays his
debts and attends to his own business is the
man who is most respected and honored.
In Southern, California there is an immense
mass of hardened lava that looks exactly like
an inverted cup in an enormous saucer.
The Brandon News suggests that it is time
to begin making preparations for the Press
Association which convenes at Greenwood in
June.
The farther north, the more injurious to the
human system is the use of coffee. Green
landers have found it necessary to prohibit its
use by the young.
An intelligent cat is a pet in the house of
Mrs. Mary Brownell, of Wilmington, Del.
When the animal desires to get out Qf the
cellar it rings a bell. ~
Love scorns golden chest
Nor would his key unlock it,
But when love strikes your vest at night,
lie cleans out every pocket.
A painful and serious operation was per-
formed on a Mrs. Massey, of Kosciusko,
Miss, in the removal of tnmor from her
abdomen weighing s. pounds.
The biggest man on earth lives at Dan
vile, Ind. He is 81 years old, weighs 9O7
pounds, and is feet 8 inches high, yet he has
to pay taxes just like an ordinary man.
The Viking ship will play an important part
in the Mardi Gras festivities this year, and
will doubtless prove great attraction to Wis
itors who failed to see her at the Worlds Fair.
Three places are known where green snow is
found. One of these is near Mt. Hecla, lee
land; another fourteen miles east of the
mouth Of the Obi, and the third near Quito,
South America.
A. B. Myers, of Hanover, Pa, lost both his
hands In an accident years ago. Holswas re-
Gently married and signed his marriage GER
tifcate with pen held in his teeth. His pen
manship is fine.
The upper third of the face is altered in ex-
preston in affections Of the brain, the middle
third in diseases Of the chest and the lower
TINA in the diseases of tile organs contained
in the abdominal cavity.
The full bench Of the supreme court Of
Massachusetts, have decided that verdicts ar
rived at by chance are not legal. The decis-
ion was rendered in astest ease where the jury
had reached verdict BY casting lots.
A lake Of boiling mud, two miles in circum-
ference, exists in the island of Java, neal
S0lo. Masses of soft, hot mud continual,
arise and fall, and huge mud bubbles sexplod.
like balloons, with reports like guns, at ,ht
rate Of three minute.
A cat, imported from Madagascar, is in tn,
possession of W. G. Robinson, of New Castle
Pa. The animal has no tail and runs like
rabbit. The cat is great rabbit hunter, ant
can follow Mr. Bunny into almost any burrow
Mr.. Robinson claims that it caught nineteel
rabbits one day recently.
DR.. Talmage will leave the Brooklyn Taber
nacle IN May next. He says he has bee
preaching here for twenty-five years, and "
quarter Of a century is long enough for an
minister to preach in any one place." He ais
says "My plans after resignation have no
been developed, but ! shall preach by voic
and newspaper press as long as my life an
health are continued"
Bill Nye says: "Go where yod will in thi
country to-day and you will find men talkin
about the tariff and tax on raw materials VII
haven't q mouthful Of raw material or an
other kind in their homes, except as the
wives earn it and bring it home to them. II
Icountsy is full of men who have thought I
lizard for the commonwealth that the seats
their trousers shine like the dome Of the Ma!
sschusetts state house."
In Southern Europe the peasants alway
eat fruit in its natural shape and never thin
Of treating it to doses Of sugar, salt or 9TH
ScNSOulnp. hiVuHu AN"PsoS ""u -"
the people bite hole in the orange, stek g
the Juice and then throw the orange ava
Some American people often do the same, b
!. the American must try his hand at improyir
nature, so he puts lump of sugar in @
orange planter thinks such thing ds1nRr
tion.
Says In editor Of the Hawkinsville (G'
Dispatch: 1--WE have good, gentle FAM
horse that we are anxious to exchange fol
good 'possum dog or reasonable amount
} flsh bait. There is positively ne4ning wro
with the horse but his voracious appetite.
have had him with % now about two wee
!, and he has eaten up three loads Of cypr'
VI shingles, two old gates, licked the bottom
, Of casliron ear kettle and commenced
~ the gable end Of our residence, and the fact
wc have just got to swap, sell or kusFor
without a house or home"