The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-11-16
Editorial and Otherwise.

n cOttOn Hllu is pTuyeClcu at DlonsV", W.
ida.
When you have nothing to say don't try to
say it.
Russia's army numbers $4,000, on a peace
footing.
five improve our Circumstances they will
improve us.
American cattle aud beef are denied entrance
into Germany.
Too many people would rather have glory
than goodness.
We can readily see how easy it is for other
people to do right.
The Pope has pearls left by his predecessors
valued at 100000.
The manuscript Of the Old Testament was
completed 430 B. G.
Character is always writing its name on the
face in indelible ink.
1t is harder to guard against liar than It is
against the smallpox.
There are 10000 more women than men in
the District of Columbia.
The Empress Frederick has a chain Of 32
pearls valued at $4,000.
Sixty thousand acres in this country are
devoted to celery growing.
The most distant relatives are not always
those who live farthest away.
The man who looks for difficulties will find
two where he only expected one.
Chicago has had "pnre" food exposition
That Is a funny way to spell poor.
Great victories are not always won on the
fields where the great armies fight.
| When the sower goes out to SOW he carries
more than one wheat field on his back.
The Memphis bakers arc now selling forty
one-pouud loayes Of bread for dollar.
El{ Sam Jones is working upon Texarkana, one
Of the toughest towns in the Southwest.
Baltimore has eight colored physicians
dealers in black draughts, 50 to speak.
Let us be cheerful. These November skies
arc blue enough for the whole country.
The Chinese soldiers are great cigarette
smokers. No wonder they are so easily de-
fcated.
Is there anyone who thinks it is as easy fol
him to take other peoples advice as it is 'ol
them to take his
Natural gas has been discovered in Yer
mont. No wonder that State gives big Re
publican majority.
The presidential bee is said to be bnzzing
: about the silk hats of Supreme Court Judges
Fuller and Harlan.
The president has pardoned James A. JAS
sui, sentenced in Mississippi to tour years
Imprisonment for pension frauds.
: Keen YOUR feet dry. An eminent throa
spccialist says that ",he best chest protecto
is worn on the sole of the foot"
: Mohammedan widows find il difficult to re
marry. An association to assist them in find
ing husbands has been organized in Turkey.
Boston is troubled with whstlng. One {
the papers declares that il is so prevalent ther
|. as to constitute serious nuisance to ncrvou
people. ...
:, The Hcrmean Society, of the University
7. Mississippi, celebatcd its 4Cth anniversary
= the I'd, with Mr. Denton, Of Panoia county,
ID orator.
~ Rev. C. II. Spurgcon left team load Of Sc
4. mons on hand when he died and there are "
~ as many unpublished as would take years tin
a Ia get out.
!. Rev. DR.. Talmagc has again resigned :
pastor Of the Brooklyn Tabernacle. This
= about the fourth time. Resignation should
q one Of the virtues Of minister. ~
p Miss Helen Peel granddaughter Of Il
= famous English statesman, has cmulated MI
= Pcary by taking an Arctic voyage from En-
( land to the Kara Sea. -
= / costs about SIS to manufacture a tyr
g writing machine, and a first-class one could
: sold at big profit for $50, now that all I
+ valuable patents have expired.
! The British steamship Montezuma sail
s. from New Orleans last week fre'ghtcd vi
the largest cargo of cotton that ever VI
& down to the sea in one vessel, l4,S9s bales.
tits reported that the young empress
IE China committed suicide because the empel
slapped her face. II all married women {
& that bad, their ranks would soon be decimat,
j. On account the prevalence of diptheria
s. the Northern cities, thousands Of people v
" leave the cold North and spend the winter
NF the South. Dirtheria is becoming gr
\. scourgc in the North. ..,
- Two saw logs were received in Palatka IL
" week from the Ockla~ aha river section, Fla
rs da, one measuring $500 feet and the otl
= 7,o75 feet, sixty inches in diameter and thir
u six feet in length.
= It is said that, although a whales mon
when open, is about IL by Ii feet in dim
sions, its throat is so small that hens I
might choke It. Now, how do you supp
that Jonah, who was much Of ii man, ever
down thers3 81
Mr.. NJ. ~. Zones, cf Monroe county, tells
Aberdeen Examiner that he has been success
80 in protectinghis corn in crib from the att
Of weevils BY scattering dry salt upon it
propertion to 4 gallon Of salt to ten bushels
corn.
A panther carried of baby at Jones
Oregon, some days ago. The body was 70
ancrward in the neighboring forest, 'ife'
but entirely uninjurcd save for few scrot,
;. on the face. is supposed that the ami
~" tried 10 adopt the child.
,m', An artificial cotton Is made In Fancc, an
all said to be much cheaper than the natural
ter, iSmade AZ the wood Of the pine, spruce
coS, , larch. II IL de6brated, bleached and ire
~ with various chemicals. This gives
" thread that.c be woven iuto fabrics.
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