The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-03-09
SCRANTON, MISSISSIPPI. FRIDAY, MARCH O. 1894
Editorial and Otherwise.


The silver dollar contains only forty-six
cents pure silver.
The great things of life are dependent upon
very small causes.
Every day that Congress is in session costs
the people $25 900.
Coffee is so called from being first brought
to Europe from Caila.
Corpse wax xbrmerlv applied to any body,
living as well as dead.
The title bailif' was formerly very honorable,
and the official was vested with many import
ant powers.
Over a million acres of coffee land were sold
during last year in the State Of Vera Cruz,
Mexico.
Man is so cruel to woman that it is certainly
remarkable that he has never boned her for
his rib
In japan for $3.50 year a man can rent
good house, employ two servants and live like
gentleman.
There has been brick and pottery company
organized at Natchez with paid up capital Of
ss6 900.
The mayor and marshal of Brookhaven,
backed up by the cieizens of the town, are
making a vigorous war on "blind tigers"
The Hurontario Canal project is again being
agitated in Canal. 1t is to be ship canal |
between the Georgia Bay and Lake Ontario.
A Boston man was fined 50 the other day for
spanking boy. The average Boston child is
so frosty that he is liable to break in two when
spanked.
II is siad that the Jackson Corbett fight will
be ''pulled OFF, at Cuttychunk, Mass. If is,
Corbett may cuttychunk out of Jackson before
he knows it,.
Kentucky raises more hemp than any other
! State in the Union. Enough to decorate all
the anarchists in the country, and it could not
be put to better use.
Senator McIaurin made a brilliant speech
at the annual reception given on the night of
February the goth by the Washingto Board of
Trade. 1t was received with great applause.
Grand Master McClurg recommends that
the Mississippi Odd Fellows celebrate with
appropriate ceremonies the seventy fifth ami
versary of the order, which occurs April 20.
| Secretary Gresham's refusal to draw his
pension any longer has brought out the state
| t1,t bo hntt
wounded at kennesaw by a sharpshooter.
Gov IIogg of Texas has been arrested for
shooting game out of season. 1t was deer
he killed and not a hog, the latter being game
always in season, even for the newspapers.
A machine for making tacks was patented
in 1906, but not put into practical use until
near the middle Of the present century. Now
the world consumes 50 900 900 tacks a day.
Rev. II. f. Sproes has withdrawn his resig-
nation and will remain pastor of the Baptist
congregation at Jackson, idstead of going to
Macon, Ca, as was announced last week.
There is no knowledge for which greater
price is paid as knowledge of the world and
no one ever became an adept in it except at
the expense of hardened and wounded heart.
Mr.. Cleveland says that the reports that he
is troubled with cancer indicate "an epidemic
of mcndacity eminatng from the dull aud
stupid brains OF some of these correspond
cnts."
In olden times the mayor of Leicester,
England, was chosen by sow. The candi
dates sat in semi-circlc, each holding his hat
full of beans in his lap, and he was selected
mayor from whose hat the SOW ate first.
In Switzerland girls, on arriving at the age
Of IA, are regularly employed as porters, anG
during the season in that country my be seen
daily carving the baggage Of travellers up
and down the steep mountain paths.
Mr.. Stanley Heard, of BRIDGEPORT, England,
who is in the South buying lumber to sell to
ship builders, is quoted by the Liverpool Tim
Der News as saying that "the best pine timber
in the world comes from Mississippi and Ala
bama."
The Courier-Journal boldly aud truthfully
says that the White Cappcr dis a sneaking
coward, and In nine cases out of ten a bigger
scoundre than his victim" So say we all.
The only good White Capper is dead White
Cappcr.
The man who was seriously hurt in Georgia
and on recovering forgot his own name has at
last come to his senses and remembers his
| 10 nd hat ha, t.v,,
wives. This Of itself is enough to make him
forget that he is living.
Senator White, the new associate justice Of
tho U. s. Supreme Court is forty-ninc years
of agc Chief Justice Fuller is sixty zone
Justice Field seventy-eight Justice Harlan
sixty -one; Justice Gray sixty-six; Justice
Brewer ffty-seyen: Justice Brown fifty
eight Justice Shiras Sixty 1.-TWO, and Justice
jackson sixty-two.
A Londen. lumber trade journal actually
admits that American supplies Of lumber arc
very much decreased in the London yards and
docks and that yellow pine is very much lower
in stock than last year. The reduction in log
timber is especially marked.
Ex-Lieut. Gov. J. d. Stands and Judge J.
A. p. Campbell are spoken Of by the press Of
the State as men most suitable to oil the chair
Of law at the University, made vacant by the
resignation Of Hon. A. II. Whitfield.
The press dispatches report 1Feat destitu-
tion In the Starr county region Of Texas.
"Ninety per cent Of the stock is dead, no crops
Of any kind were harvested last season, and
absolute want exists. Resources are ex-
hausted and Il impossible for the more fortu-
nate to longer assist their suffering fellow
creatures"
Missionary johnson says hc has seen as
many as seventeen inen thrown 10 the croco.