The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-02-08
Editorial and Otherwise.


An idle brain is the anarchists workshop.
Hard times is something of a revenue cut
} ter.
Mississippi has $50 convicts in her penten-
tiary.
Triaes make perfection, and perfection is no
tribe.
The way of the transgressor does not get
any softer.
The man that never makes mistake never
makes anything.
The income tax seems to stand all the tests
of the courts
Shrewdness knows how to make much cap.
ital from one success.
Free wool has resulted in starting up all the
wooen mills in the country.
cheerful friend is like sunny day, which
sheds its brightness on all around.
Some of the insurance companies of Paris
refuse to insure people who dye their hair.
Many pairs of sandals have been recovered
at Pompeii. The soles are fastened with
nails.
A charter has been granted for building m
electric railroad between Pass Christian and
Biloxi
Arctic experts believe that Dr.. Nansens
vessel has been crushed in the ice of the Polar
Sea.
Siberian women are raised as abiect slaves
-untdy in dress, and are bought with money
or cattle.
| In several European countries, including
France and Belgium, elections are always held
on Sunday.
1t is estimated that the income tax will in
crease the public revenues fully $5O,OoO,-
900 annually.
1t is reported that postmaster general Bis
to discuss the subject.
The Carksdale Advance says over 500
northern families have purchased farms in
that section recently.
Insteed of an enga cement ring, the Japanese
lover gives his sweetheart a piece of beautiful
silk for her sash or obi
ranchman in Contra Costa county, CAL,
has his farm stocked with about 100, ,OO0, 900
frogs for the city market.
II we are ever in doubt what to do, it is a
good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish
on the morrow that we had done.
An old negro woman of Holly Springs, with
a growth of hair nine feet long, is on exhibit
tion in Chicago, and is drawing large crowds
Several hundred manuscripts have been
ding up at Pompeii, but, very fortunately for
the human race, not one of them was poem
on spring.
Callahan, the convicted alderman of New
Orleads, who was sentenced to the peniten-
tiary, has been granted new trial by the
Supreme court.
Much as worthy friends add to the happi-
ness and value of life, we must in the main
depend on ourselves, and every one is his own
oest lrieHu or worst enemy.
The Natchez Evening News SAYS: "Goldbug
VS.. silver discussions have not half as much
interest to us as our consuming desire to see
honest men elected to office"
Attorney General johnson says the poll tax
is State tax and not county tax, and tax
collectors are allowed three per cent on all
poll taxes collected and paid over to county
treasurers.
So far, only $50 japanese have been killed
in the war now going on. The Chinese
couldn't shoot strait enough to hit any body,
and run too fast for the Japs to take good aim
at them.
India is not very pleasant country to live
in. 1t is estimated that during 1893 24lO7
human beings and 9O,253 animals were killed
in that land by poisonous snakes and ferocious
wild animals.
whatever your sex or position, life is bat
tie in which you are to show your pluck, and
woe be to the coward. Despair and postpone
ment are cowardice and defeat. Men are born
to succeed and not to fail.
The whskers Of cat are supposed BY some
naturalists to be provided with nerves down
to the tip, while others believe that the base
OF the hair is better fitted out with nerves
than most other parts of the skin.
Hon. VIM. l.. Wilson, father of the tariff
bill has accepted the invitation of Chancellor
Fulton to deliver the annual commencement
address at the University Of Mississippi next
June. This insures a large attendance.
The Arizona Indians have n peculiar and
effective way Of branding animals. The brand
is made Of steel, with knife edge. 1t is fixed
on the head Of an arrow and shot with bow
at the animal to be branded with such force
that it cuts the mark in the hide.
Reports that the ffteen-year-old wife of
Kentucky's fighter, Gen. Cassius NJ. Clay, had
deserted him, are as false as some women's
hair. She Is still with him, delighted with
loves young dream; and the old man is just as
happy as a fly in sugar barrel.
Here Is tip for hunters and butchers: An
enterprising butcher up at Dell Rapids, Da-
kota, has established new manufacturing
enterprise. He is making jack rabbit sausage
for the Chicago markets, and finds it pays
him well. lie ia said to keep several hands
constantly employed.
John R. Lynch, the colored republican lead
er Of this State, addressed a large republican
gathering at tho City Hall at Meridian the
other night. He advised his, race to he ODE.
dent to the laws under which they live and
strive to become more intelligent, educate
their children better, to be sober, honest and
more industrious.
Give ms showing when You want any
Job Printing. We can suit you both in
price and qualit Of work.