The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1895-02-15
Editorial and Otherwise

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You can't dodge poverty and work at Tn
same time.
Sam Jones is making it lively for the wick
ed in Memphis.
The United States of Columbia has sive,
basis for money
A salt well at Warsaw, n. Y, is 1920 fee
deep and cost $9,5O0.
The Meridian Times, populst paper, ha.
been attached for debt.
Oxen and sheep fatten better in compan,
than when kept alone.
According to Chinese iaw, a wife who is too
laxative may be divorced.
The road to Heaven seems to become steep
er every time We look back.
When you can't find anything else to do for
Tod try to make child happy.
The authorities OF Chattanooga have de-
clared war on child insurance.
Content consists largely in not wanting
something that Is out of your reach.
Senator George is doing his best to push
the Bankruptcy bill to vote in the Senate.
A Boston electrician asserts that the com
mon poplar tree is natural lightning rod.
An egotist is man who thinks the world
thinks as well OF him as he does himself.
Too profuse floral decoration at dinner par-
ties is declared to be questionable" taste.
Something new, pretty and useful for the
desk is paperweight aud clock combined.
Queen Victoria's latest speech evnces all
her od skill in very gracefully saying nothing
at all.
There is but one spectacle in life than
neglected wife, aud that is a neglected hus-
band.
Ifa man strikes another with n weapon in
Madagascar there is but one law, aud that is
death.
The Queen Of Engand's household last year
amounted to $SG5,OOO, three quarters Of which
was salaries.
The person who endeavOrs to be all things
to all men usually ends by becoming nothing
to any one.
The most shapelv thing in sleeves solilo-
quized the policeman at the street crossing
is the arrum.
The European tranquility is now 50 thick
that no one OF the powers dares to turn its
back or even sneeze.
1t is a sad commentary on human nature
that only one woman is among those saved
from the Elbe.
There appears to be an overproduction of
everything in the realm Of politics except pa
trlots and statesmen.
The immigration movement to the South is
assuming enormous proportions. 1t is like a
hegira to the land of promise.
There were very few paved streets in any
part of England before the year 1853, when
The streets of London were first laid down.
Every man who smokes or chews helps to
support the government. In 1892 the gov
nrnment revenues frem tobacco were $3l, ,O0, II.
Secretary Carlisle now claims that there
will be surplus of $22.500 900 for the calen.
1ar year 1895. The new tariff is working all
right.
Hundreds Of Italians are going back to
Italy from the sugar districts of Louisiana
because the repeal of the bounty has cut their
wages down.
Miss Susan B. Anthony, the great apostle
IF woman's rights, will lecture in Jackson
Feb. 2lth. The men will be out in force to
hear her.
The word humbug is of Irish origin, and |
means soft copper, or worthless money. 1t |
was originally applied to the money by James
II, at the Dublin mint.
A large hand and large foot never look
worse than when they are encased in cover
ngs too small for them. "a word to the |
wise is sufficient"
After the tax lists are out the DEMOCRAT |
STAR will contain its usual amount of ch oice |
reading matter. Bear with us, friends, this
,nly happens once in year.
Ex-President Harrison is quoted as SAYING
ne prefers the practice of law to the presi- |
lency. But just wait until the bell rings and |
see what he will do.
The strike among the street car employees |
Di brooklyn is causing deal of worry. The |
Policemen and militia have been used, but as
At Chicago, they were only menace.
Numbers Of small towns in France have
been overwhelmed by avalanches of snow from
The mountains. The inhabitants were gem
orally warned in time and escaped
The production Of gold in Georgia, at the |
present time, as officially reported by the |
United States, saws the Blue and GRAY, is es-
Iimated at about 100000 annually.
Tihamar H. Fennyery, friend and compa-
riot OF kossuth, and who was assisted by the |
a n aan pa N l., -. -
'xiled, is living in Springfield, Mass.
When Julius Rogers, Of Marshal county,
la., was baby, he was so small as to be
wonder to his parents and neighbors. Now he
Is feet inches tall and weighs 352 pounds. |
The United States court Of claims at Wash.
ngton granted judgment on last Thursday in |
favor OF Lew NJ. Lowenburg, Of Warren coun-
"a, for ,s25, c. A. French, Of Claiborne coun-
", for $3.50.
. The most certain wav to get rid Of the Eng
sll sparrow nuisance is to make the plumag ge |
! fashionable hat and garment trimming for |
aides: The sparrow pot-pie dodge is com.
plete failure.
This item comes by wav Of the Chicago
Herald Two men in Mississippi had fight |
u room. Ore threw the other out of the
window and, thinking he had killed him,
nmped himself. They fell distance of
hrty feet and neither was hurt.
Maine has chosen the pine cone as her
State emblem. North Carolina, where tall
'lne trees grow, so appreciates the compl-
nent to her popular and profitable industry
hat the State has officially presented to the
Maine State Floral Society huge pine cone.
Mrs. U. 8. Grant has been down in Georgia
haking kands with the Johnny Rebs. Outside
4 the Friday night sessions Of the house of
representatives. there seems to be a general
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