The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-06-01
Editorial and Otherwise

United States.
Many man who has no fear of a lion backs
down before a gnat.
A bald eagle carried off bottle of hair re-
storer from Perryville, Pa.
1t seems that the good points on some peo-
pie have all been broken off.
In every rank, both great and small, it is
industry that supports us all.
The cat, of all domestic animals, retains
most of its wild characteristics.
1t is one of the best laws Of God that the
man who will not give shall not possess.
Every man owes something to himself, but
what he owes other people Is what bothers.
In the Atlanta bicycle races, a bicycle was
raced against a trottng horse and won easily.
Love is the central, deepest, highest thing
in life. Music and brain are only its servants.
In 1916 Francis I. gave to his queen the
equivalent of $4,000 in our money to buy a
hat.
To earn $4,000 900, 900 it is only necessary
to sell the sea at one cent for every 10000 gal
Ions.
The man who says he is not able to take his
county paper always borrows his neighbor's
copy.
A good wife never cracks smile when her
husband steps upon an inverted tack at mid
night.
God never hears the prayer of man who
locks up his money before he gets down on his
knees.
Never tell an editor how to run his paper.
The poor devil will find that out himself soon
enough.
The trial of Major Gibbs, Jackson's default
ing postmaster, was continued, on account OF
his illness.
That Senate investigation committee is to
Try to find out how many Senators took sugar
''in ther'n."
Rev. L. II. Mounger has been elected presi-
dent of the Whitworth Female College, at
Jackson, Miss.
The latest flying machine is being tested by
| The Austrian government. 1t is the invention
of George Wener.
The Alfalfa Herald was destroyed by a wind
storm. Most papers suspend because they
can't raise the wind.
A Coxey army of Laporte, Ind, is composed
entirely of Poles, and is going to ask Congress
TO stop immigration.
| The Bank of England will be 200 years old
next July, and the event will, perhaps, be cell
ebrated in some way.
| a Norwegian woman living near Iankton,
S. D., is 80 years old and is said to be the
mother of twenty-tour children.
| The women of the Middle Ages always part
ed their hair with small dagger. When not
in use it was carried IN the grdle.
Carl Browne is said to be writing a book on
Coxeyism. He could not devise more effect
ual method for killing the movement.
Herman Marx was convicted in Meridian for
selling hop tea, with a ~ per cent. of alcohol,
fined and appealed to the circuit court.
The House committee on pensions recon-
mends increasing all pensions for the Mexican
and Indian wars from IS to $l2 a month.
The. "best'' people in any town are those
who live consistent lives, always try to do
right by everybody and pay their honest debts.
Now come the boys to act a part,
With faces fresh and ruddy;
One fellow gets his speech by heart,
Another one by study.
The publishers of the United States are up
in arms because of the effort to increase news
paper postage 700 per cent. 1t is an outrage
and an injustice which should be put down
forever.
On hearing that Madeline Pollard was en-
gagged in writing an autobiography, the editor
OF the Richmond States was so overcome with
emotion that he declared she "autobiashamcd
Of herself"
Senator Cattrey, who has just been elected
for the long term from Louisiana, is the onl,
member OF the Senate whose term of oAic.
lapses over into the twentieth century. He ma,
even be Oh hand when the tariff debate is ended
OF more than 400 amendments to the tariff
bill last reported, 1913 provide for increased
duties and six for reductions. "Compromis
ing" platform pledges is like lying-as, indeed
it is lying. The first lie bcgets endless ant
countless others.
So far as the hard times are concerned, tn,
pretense that the Democrats are primaril,
responsible for them is simply false and ha.
been often exposed. No intelligent man il
this country believes it, unless he wishes t,
believe it for party purposes.
Rev. DR.. parkhurst, of New York, speak.
the right idea when he tells women that il the,
would preserve their individuality they mus
remain womanly. Some thinking people cal
not but abhOr manhood mania in women Al
they despise effemlnacy in men.
or the 1856 birds bagged by the Clevelan,
hunting party, on Bodies Island, the Presi
dent shot l44. The catch of blue fish an,
drum beat anything in his experience. Afte
another hunt on Bodies Island the Presiden
will return to Washington.
Miss Francis Z. Willard has delivered he
farewell address to the National Brihsl
Woman's Temperance Association meeting il
London. During the delivery few wome
shed tears. She will sssn return to this coun
trybut may go back to England.
Mrs. Olive Thornc Miller read paper O
"Birds" before the New York Sorosis on Mon
day last, in which she noted a curious fact
"With many BIRDS" said she, 'the plumag
changes. During the wooing season extra an
more brilliant plnmage is donned, to b
thrown off when the mate Is won.