The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-05-24
Editorial and Otherwise.


Asses milk is sold at three shillings pint.
The bright side is not always the right
side.
Many poor man smokes enough cigars to
support his family.
The future is coming our way, but we have
no string to il.
Some people are so conservative that they
never dare to think for themselves.
new broom will not sweep clean unless it
has some industrious person at the handle.
Some vain mortals are so sensitive that no
body can touch them with forty foot pole.
If the sexes did not indulge in so much ex-
travagant politeness on meeting they might
part better friends.
1t is probable that in very few years 1t will
be common thing to sell electricity in jars,
like milk.
Tom Reed says that a statesman is dead
politician. Tom Reed is not statesman by
any means.
An Irish friend is iubilant over the fact that
: the present ruler of Japan is the Irshman,
Nick Adoo.
II takes six million bales of cotton at twenty
five dollars bale to pay the yearly pensions.
Georgia, North and Sonth Carolina have
produced Sij, 900 in gold in the last hun
dred years.
New York has twentyseven female BARRIERS.
Any one Of them can take man by the nose
scrapehis face with razor, and put soap in
his eyes
Lieut.. Bcrsicr of the French navy has in.
vented compass which does away with a
steersman, as the compass steers the vessel
itself.
Seven New York Romeos were arrested
in one week for borrowing money Of their
lady loves and then refusing to marry them.
The condor is the largest bird in existence.
Some OF those shot in the Andes had spread
Of wing Of eighteen or twenty feet.
The sum of human happiness will be greater
when the engaged young man buys fewer
flowers now that he may purchase more vege-
tables later on.
The Prince Of Naples wants no "fne Italian
hand" doesn't like girls and viii sooner re-
nounce the throne than marry. Who Tilted
him =?
Clarke, Jasper, Kemper, Lauderdae and
Noxubce counties will vote in their primaries
for United States Senator.
Japan is to receive $50, 900 900 for the terri
, tory she has concluded not to take. Thisi,
pretty valuable real estate.
China has such large population that no,
more than one-fuurth of the population knows
that war has been going on.
The drone bee haiches from the egg in 2.
days from the date of deposit, the worker
in q and the Queen in from 10 to ls days.
y fazoo and Wilkerson are the only connic.
in the State that have ordered conventions t,
nominate county officers.
x.-G0v. Ames, who was induced to leay,
Mississippi for the benefit Of his health severa
Z years since is sick unto death in Boston.
A pony only twelve inches high is pet u
the shah Of Persia. 1t sometimes stands ou tb,
table at his elbow, while the shah is eating hi
breakfast.
After July post office orders will be tn
size Of bank note, it having been discovcrc,
that the one now in use was too incony ycnien
4 to fold IN a letter.
;. Congressman Money wears upon the lcf
v lapel Of his coat neat silver badge on whic
IS inscribed those significant figures 40 to l..
His light is not hid under bushel.
5, Missouri contemporary is authority "a
the statement that the Lord hates man VIII
keeps three dogs and cannot afford to subscrib
for his home paper.
Judge Bailey, Of Eau Claire, Wis, in sent
cncing a defaulting cashier 10 prison, said
"Tbe Chicago Board Of Trade has caused NOR
distress, ruined more men and wrecked NOR
families than the civil war;"
- The Manufacturers Record gives figures
prove that the South spends 0O,OO0, 900
: year for corn, bacon and other supplies ihs
= might as well be raised at home. This enorn
/ Gus dram on the South Is one Of the causes
lu the scarcity Of money.
% DR.. Kelley must make public his formu
for the cure Of the whisky habit, 50 the cour,
have decided. This decision, of course, D
Kelley will not like, as he has heretofore e,
Z joyeda monopoly Of his gold cure.
q Tho Londor press claims that The Riv,
4 Platte is rapidly coming into competition wit
the Uoited States in supplying meats to tn,
market Five thousand live sheep from IN,
section were landed at Deptford In one day
Beef from the United States costs six pept
per pound laid down in SmithReld.
p A Northern man tried 10 convince Boliv,
county man that II was better to raise IN
= stock hogs than razorbacks. The native repie,
"Thats all you know about IL stranger. Whe
you've lived here as long as have you'll Rn
out that IL amt worth while Ia raise sny kin
Of hogs here that can't out run 4 Niger"
y Tho Jacksonville Times Union says, II
q women cf the United States, old and younl
, chew every year 2e,eos, 900 worth Of gun
p The power thus wasted, properly utilize,
would almost double the factory enterprise
The country.
d Col. ". II. Sims, assistant Secretary Of N
Interior, on retuvnisR from a visit Ia Plorid
completely confirms the reports NJ the greI
extent Of the destruction Ia the rsrids orans
y interests By last winters frsess. He says,
has bsss truly that II every house
y florids bad bsss VkrRsd the loss would ha,
b. been Iess thsn resulted from the destruclion
orange trees"