The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-01-05
Editorial and Otherwise.


Indigestion Is the devils ally.
A good dead needs no applause.
Poetry Is thought run into mods.
A woman's age is one Of natures secrets.
What the rosebud promises it does not al
ways fulfill.
Ambition is all right until It runs to vanity
and foam.
II is seldom that woman thinks so with
out saving so.
Learning the Hawaiian language is social
fad in Washington.
The Legislature Of Mississippi met in spec
ial session last Tuesday.
What man hath done is not always what
man should have done.
A revolver has been invented that shoots
seven times in u second.
The fashion of serving fish before meats be-
gan as far back as 1862.
In spite of his name, Swift got left in the
Chicago mayoralty race.
you speculate with death you are apt to
get in on the ground floor.
The wrinkles of the heart are more indeli.
BILE than those of the brow.
All great many people need to cure them
is plenty of clean water.
The small boy of tins country is now too
big for his fathers brceches.
Do not count vour chickens until they are
roasted and on the dish before you.
A woman Of Spring Hill, Mo-, has baked
loaf of bread from yeast thirty years old.
A Chinese bank note 800 years old is at
present preserved in Chinese museum.
In Norway persons who have not been vac
cinated are not allowed to vote at any cleo
tion.
In the far West girl who works in rail-
road restaurant is known as a "buscuit shoot
en-"
Sometimes the early bird fails to catch the
worm, and gets cnsnnrcd by the hunter him
self.
The walnut is a native of Persia, but the
chestnut is found in the New York comic ia
pers.
Governor Hogr, of Texas, wants to 90 to
the United States Senate. Too many hogs
| there now.
A ia ia t1nctan Il, lIrut,,ro or;v
lax. How would that sound htclcd to big
| long-eared mule?
New Orleans has lao bar rooms, that is
one to every 10 population, or one to every
thirty-four families.
A Baltimore banking house has vcntured
to make the prediction that those who buy in
1893 will grow rich in 1894.
A lIindustani work on music says that "mu-
sic is the painfully acquired art of speaking
very loud in shril voice."
The nations Of Europe are uniting for the
extinction of anarchy. One Chicago judge
did the lob for this country.
Bob Ingcrsoll saws there is no hell. How
about being in strange city, very dry and
without IA niekle in your pocket.
A man with broken neck is living in Prov
idence, Il. |. Many men whose necks ought
to be broken are living elsewhere.
The Boston Herald says the Louisiana Lot
terry Co., is on its way to Honduras, but it
will probably weigh anchor in Florida awhile.
North, east, wcst-thcy're all a-frcczin-
Folks a-coughin' an' a-sneezin'
Here, down South, no frost er fuss
Roses reach the lips of us.
Fire Island Lighthouse, just off Long Is
land, is TO be provided with the most power
ful scarchlght in the world. 1t will fash cv-
cry five seconds.
II is all right for ministers to attack pugil-
ism. They know all about it. The pugilists
are Founders and the ministers expounders.
Christmas came and Christmas went;
Had enough ofit-eontent!
Let the whole world go its ways
Thirty dollars or thirty days!
The Selma (Ala.) Times says: A Demo-
cratic editor with grievance against his par
ty is like an anarchist with boom in his
hands. When he throws It he is liable to kill
his friends.
Talmagc SAYS that "thc earth is rosebud
in Gods garden Of worlds, aud the oceans are
dcwdrops." If SO be, the "roscbud" and
"dewdrops" ave sadly in need Of some able
bodied dsnfcctsnt.
Jerry Simpson says the Republican party il
stronger than ever, and yet the report that
Mrs. Lease has packed up all her influence and
marched over to the Republican camp still
circulates.
The Republican hand organs say "the treas
ury is running behind" but neglect to poin
out the interesting fact that the z. o.p. ha,
for a good many years running behind tn,
treasury.
"A man in Illinois is making good living b,
writing to hard drinkers that II they will sen,
him dollar, he will impart to them an infai
lible cure for drunkenness. When they com
ply with this request, he sends them neatl!
printed card bearing the words: "Do no
drigk saything but water.'
An exchange says that farmer near Shcp
hardstown, Pa, raised a stalk Of cabbage witt
one huge head in the center and eighteel
smaller around II. It naively adds that the,
!, were all perfectly formed. So was the imagi
nation Of the liar, who got up the story.
The following named articles have bee
placed on the FREQ list in the new tariff bill
Coal, iron, tinplate, copper, silver, lead ore
fax, jute, hemp, wool, lnmber, salt, cotton tie
aud baggiug, and binding twinc and <long lii
I. Of chemicals and dye stufs.
A French syndicate recently closed trad
for 1OO 900 acres of land In Mississippi, 0
which they propose to settle large colony {