The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-06-14
Editorial and Otherwise.
There Is no rest for the wicked.


Do not depend upon the tricks Of your trade.
An instrument has been invented to meas
ure thought.
In all tropical countries the vulture is the
natural scavenger.
Good advice is liable to spoil for want of
use,
The Tupelo Journal has ceased to support
Ansc McLaurn.
Cherries are ripe and the boys are making
them bounce.
The truth hurts some men worse than false
hoods.
Women kiss one another merely to keep in
practice.
The owl looks dignfed and wise, but it is
an owl all the same.
Some people consider piece of Limburger
cheese rank nonsense.
IIetty Green bellies her name IN all money
matters.
An attempt is being made to drive Ameri-
can lard out of France. 0, Lard
These financial debates lack animation.
The lie is not passed at any of them.
The new woman will grow old as the days
90 by.
A mother is the only person on earth whose
goodness isn't the preface of request.
There Is so little reason for vanity that it is
remarkable that it is so prevalent
When we look at the result of some human
follies they become too tragical to laugh at.
patent side paper accuses all home print
papers of stealing matter from its patent side.
The Florida lottery law really prohibits
marriage, as that is very often considered
game Of chance.
Monday of last week the darkness of night
settled over New York city at MONDAY The
sun got tired of shining on the unjust.
The unjust man cries for Justice to-day, and
tomorrow he weeps with fear that he will
get justice.
In some sections the reason the wise man
takes the back seat is because the other class
has the majority.
An Eastern weather prophet says that there
will be frost in the United States every month
this year, excepting July.
IF people strove as hard to get into heaven
as they do to get into society, there would be
no use for a hell.
Bishop Galloway has written a book on his
travels in China and Japan, which will be pub
lished soon.
"General' Coxey has announced that he is
a candidate for the govership of Ohio. That
is about as close as he will get to it.
Sir Edward Braddon, a new authority on big
game, says that the elephant is revengetul
treacherous, and is an arrant coward.
A young lady recently died in Liverpool of
tight lacing. The jury returned verdict of
"death from peritonitis or tight lacing.'
1t is funny to hear man pray "Lead us not
his brother into it.
c. P. Huntington says that he is dreading a
boom in railroads. lie does not know which
he breads most, boom or panic
! Utah has one thousand miles of canals
Why not put the balance of the polygamists
on raft and Set 'em adritt without any spe-
cial directions as to destination.
The secret of the marriage of rich Ameri.
can girls to foreign men with titles is now ad-
mitted to be that being overwhelmed with
debts they are men of extraordinary promise
Friday of last week was Queen Vctoria's
and on the goth Of June will have reigned 81
, years, or l3 years longer than Queen Eliza
beth.
A Cleveland widower who promised his wifi
that he "would never marry any other woman
: on earth" is to be married in balloon on the
J Fourth of July 1t will probably be wed
ding in the highest circles.
The sale of ice, fruit, etc., on Sundays |,
q prohibited in Hattiesburg, Miss, by city ord
nance, save upon physicians prescription
In case of illness, the patient gets ice--fv,
pounds for $lO5; the cents being for tn
d ice and the 81 for the prescription.
The New York World has interviewed tn
members of the next Congress on the finan
J cial question, and of this number 81 are op
4 posed to free and unlimited coinage, and onl
55 declare for free silver.
a The persons appointed managers, clerks an
p bailifIs to hold meeting or primary election
shall before entering upon the discharge Q
their duties, take and subscribe to an oat
d faithfully aud honestly to perform their du
ties, and endeayor to obtain fair expressio
, of the will Of the party.
y Since the Oscar Wilde case the London pc
lice have issued warning notices to 400 Eng
within three months. Oscar may have pleut
of company before he finishes his sentenc,
says the Chicago Dispatch.
4 Oktibbeha county is the first in the State [
select delegates to the State convention.
instructed for none except its home csnd
- dates--Arkew and Nash. A great many cpui
ties have disregarded the recommendation
the State committee to the effect that a
should held their meetings on August l.
The good deeds Of good men outive the bs
deeds Of bad men. The poet, Longfeow, sa
it better and more truthfully;
"I.ives Of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime"
4. An old subscriber to the DExoCRAr.Sri
a in sending ~ for another year says "M'
the "old reliable" have oil the success It
o. RICHLY deserves, and may It keep up brave
the good 6ght for true Democracy aud hone