The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-12-14
Editorial and Otherwise.

hood.
Only morbid mind is on the lookout for
sights.
Every miser is like Samson. His power is
is his locks.
Beware of a man when he begins to dispar-
age himself @S
Cuvier says that whale might live to be
1900 years Old. -
The water lily is largely used in some parts
Of India as food.
Never let thy right hand know what thy left
hand doeth badly. A
A man in Mexico is trying to get a patent
on flying machine. @
A scientist declares that fish can hear man
talking half mile away.
The price of -four has never been as low in
this country as it is now.
Wise men eat their words fools chew them
and spit them out again.
Mexico is receiving offers of assistance in
case of a war with Gautamala.
One man can make 5000 tin cans in day
by the aid of improved machinery.
More than 100000 persons read or studied
in the Boston library last year.
Women have some form of suffrage in
twenty eight States and Territories.
The Texas Cotton Palace, at Waco, Texas,
closed December Q, after "a days successful
run.
The idea is gaining ground in Europe that
woman has as much right to propose as
man.
Aluminium corrodes in salt water and bar
nacles attach to it, making it unfit for naval
uses.
The English Lord Chancellor gets 100000
year; the United States chief justice gets
SIC, 500.
An exchange says that football is disease.
Perhaps that is the reason it needs so much
doctoring.
During the gold fever in California the price
of board was from S. to SIS day in San
Francisco.
A 225-ounce gold nugget in the shape of
horseshoe has been discovered at Hargraves,
Australia.
AT the Bombay Geological Gardens the skin
of sea serpent sixty -four feet in length is on
exhibition.
An English coin of the reign Of Charles
II. once sold for $500 the highest price . sim
gle coin ever brought.
The art of bell founding is one Of great an
tiquity. Bells were used in England long
before the Norman conquest.
A sanitary authority insists that catarrh and
cold are caused, not by cold, outside air, but
by warm, impure, indoor air.
United States engineers are considering the
plan of connecting Lake Superior with the
Mississippi River by canal.
A collection of Australian stamps has been
bought BY a London dealer for $4,000, the
largest price ever paid for stamp collection.
Governor Atkinson, Of Georgia, will be asked
to pardon Porter Stocks, a nephew Of Rev.
Sam Jones, who is in the penitentiary for
murder.
The longestIaam of chess on record re-
quired between five and six years to play it.
One player was in this country and one in
Australia.
Friend-"Are you Superstitious Do you
believe in signs!" Successful Merchant
"No; newspaper advertisements are better
and cheaper"
A stranger supposed to be W. B. Dudley, a
newspaper man Of Memphis, Tenn, committed
suicide at Waco, Texas, by stabbing himself
in the left breast.
Grace-"Are you sure she loves you"
Dick-"Positiye. She said she would rather
have me save my money than buy her
Christmas present."
| In Australia horses and cattle are now be-
ing branded by electricity from storage bat.
teries. The temperature is uniform and the
brand safe and artistic.
A Buffalo photographer mixed mp the photo
graphs of twenty different babies, and asked
their mothers to pick them out. Only four
mothers hit it right.
The Columbian river was named after the
Boston ship Columbia by her captain, Robert
Gray, IN 1888. The Spaniards called the
stream Rio de st. Rogue.
A Chinese paper says that Mariana Sunta
Ana, a native Of Albay, who is III years Of
age, has just completed the long term Of fifty
three years imprisoanent.
The cross mark instead Of . signature
dd not originate in ignorance. 1t was always
appended to signatures in medieval Times as
an attestation Of good faith.
The bees Of Brazil hang their combs outside
on the branches of trees at the very summit
aud at the end Of the slenderest twigs, to be
out Of the reach Of monkeys.
Hon. H. M. Judge committed suicide at
Eutaw, Ala, December s.. He was one Of the
most prominent lawyers in Alabama, and was
to have been married in few months.
lnree maSkeu Hieu rouoeu AeA"S fac'hc
Passenger train near Fort Worth, Texas, De-
cember 8. II is said the robbers got away
with $4,000. The express car alone was
robbed, the passengers not being interfsred
with.
The Arst public test in the United States Of
a long distance telephone has been made over
the wires of the Postal Telegraph Company
from Memphis to Birmingham, . distance Of
1856 miles. The sound Was transmitted very
distinctly.
The westville News suggests, As the next
Legislature will be called upon to elect =
United States Senator, that the Democrats Of
the different counsiss Of the State should see
that only true and tried Democrats be chosen
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