The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1895-01-25

SCRANTON MISSISSIPPI FRIDAY, JANUARY Is, 1895.
Editorial and Otherwise.

AA~AVOA ANA ~ UAbN OVAbSA II APSs
Make yourself necessary
Careless charity favors the cheat.
To haye friend You must be one.
Miracles require age to make them authentic
Ceremonies differ, but politeness is ever the
same.
Truth is stranger than fiction and more
scarce.
The youngest class requires the wisest
teacher.
The error Of a moment may become the
sorrow of life.
A great deal of stealing is being done that
does not 60 by that name.
It's see-saw business in Florida-oranges
go up as the mercury goes down.
A beautiful woman without tenderness is
like flower without fragrance.
Many man surveys his head and wonders
at Wisdom's powers Of condemnation.
Men are often sorely tempted to make the
cruel mistake of lying in kindness.
Senator Isham G. Harris, of Tennessee, has
been elected to another term in the Senate.
When you 20 to war with snake, the
battle ought 10 be with the end where the head
is.
Among the spoils recently captured from an
African chief were 1000 cases of Rotterdam
gin.
Steve Elkins has been elected to the United
States Senate from West Virginia to succeed
Camden.
There are 1000 people in Paris who are
employed in the preparation of human hair for
the market.
When you have nothing else to worry over,
you may be sorry that somebody else is a
hyrocrite.
An Austrian nobleman in Vienna won big
bet by standing on one foot constantly for four
hours.
State Treasurer W. ". Taylor, Of South
Dakato, is missing and about $25O,OOO of the
States funds also.
According to Maj Gen. Tulloch of Victoria,
New South Wales depends for its defense on
ten obsolete torpedo boats.
The original of the face on the silver dollar
is Miss Anna Willess Williams, formerly a
teacher in the Philadelphia public schools.
Gen. Harry Heth, the gallant Confederate
Brigadler, is dangerouly i'll with acute
pneumonia at his home in Washington City.
When woman begins to show dislike to
being called by her pet name she may be con-
sidered as officially out of the matrimonial
race.
Senator Vest is entitled to great credit for
his characterization of the Senate as a lot of
"muscovite brakes" No aptcr phrase was
ever coined.
And now the Atlanta Journal is to be edited
by women on st. Valentines day. The "com-
ing woman" seems to be getting there very
rapidly.
Miss Ellen Tickle, of Heno, Butler Co., o.,
is said to BE- the smallest full-developed woman
now living. She is 81 years old, and weighs
but 2s pounds.
An elaborate celebration Of the 25Oth ami
versary Of the establishment of the first public
school in the world was held at Dedham, Mass,
ON Friday last.
The Jackson Blade wants the Legislature of
Tennessee to pass a law making it legal for
newspaper man to waylay delinquent sub
scriber and kill him.
A fence Of wire netting 500 miles long is one
Of the wonders Of Australia. It was erected
for the purpose Of confning the rabbits to
certain district.
Coffee is taxed 1910 ton in France, $3.50 in
Italy, 5000 in Austria, $25 in Portugal, $i2O in
Norway, 500 in Germany and Spain, $75 in
Russia, so in Great Britain.
According to an English authority, no fewer
than 100000 horses have been imported into
England for hunting and harness purposes
during the last twelve years.
The study Of the nose as Il relates to charac-
ter is one Of the prevailing fads in Italy at the
present time. The devotees Of the science have
magazine published in their interest.
George Washington was the richest man in
the United States when he died. His property
was worth about $O6o, 900. There were no
millicniares in the country in those DAYS.
A Psvsee sacred FIRE, which is burning in a
M}M at LeigSie, Persia, is known to have
~ been ~sxsinguishsd since the days of
~ piboreth, Mo lived twelve centuries ago.
fhis coagrs,s seems fable
y For the litie children ct;
'' pcs al bills re on the table,
IRE the menb(s under ~
ih' zee Of tAs ses.st cotton manufacturing
a'aol shments of Lowell, Mass, have asked
y 'ee islature for amendmcnts u heir char
~, PRINTING them 10 do business In the
= Ion. I. D. Moneys bill introduced itic The
4. ss in,ax, ~ per barrel Of 81 gsllom oil
NJ 80 porter, oil mali, ,vinops or ferrsnted
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l'."o' ys'clan has, beea us,ng the
'e'u" y y blood as an injection for con-
sumption, IND has achieved very gosd results.
the ohYd Of tho ass rssists The attack Of
'aosrcn'}sis better than that ef ssy other
a"'mal, fnd the experiments with Il have A.
srac'sa vide attention in medical circles.
Representative Money, Of Misslssippi, las
lnsroduesq bin in the House 10 raise revenue
oy an 'se,sass Of tax on rstat (nn)uev in
liquors. Hs AK on such desless,is ased A
w. 'na sv@vy person who sells lsrsisa Or
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