The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1896-02-07
Editorial and Otherwise


fat.
Kosciusko is to build $40, 90 school build
ing.
Fourteenth of February is 81. Valentine s
Day.
You cannot pour knowledge into an empty
head.
Discussion is sometimes the better part Of
valor.
A New York artist has painted justice with
one eye open
A Columbus, Miss, blind tigerte was fined
$lOO aud costs.
Atlanta is considering the advisability of
having an exposition every year.
One can be frank without turning himself
inside out
1t is now necessary for at least two gentle
men to get up to give a lady a seat.
1t isn't the men who bawl the loudcst for
war that make the best "standing" armies.
If YOU would break the heart of greedy
man you would strike hin below the belt.
Alameda, Cal, has bloomered ghost that
rides a bike over bridge.
a drunken monkey cannot compare in fool
ishness with a love-sick man.
To be professor nowadays all one needs is
knowledge how to cure corns.
The king of Ashantee, now a prisoner, or
"hostage," in British hands, has 1888 wives.
Fedovovitch Conzmin, of Dukova, Russia, is
l3S years of age and in vigorous health,
Some men are like watermelons, green on
the outside, but fully ripe on the inside.
A lovesick woman is a greater aggravation
to the household than an able bodied bed bug
Women would not he so nervous were it not
for the men. The average man is calculated
to make a steam engine nervous.
Mardi Gras for 1896 falls on the 18th dav Of
February. New Orleans, Mobile and Birming-
ham are making preparations for this event.
Senator-clect Money declares himself OPP
posed to the administrations policy about
Venezuela, and says that he will do all that he
can to avert the possibility Of war.
Somebody has said that the time to adver-
tise is all the time, and that was one of the
smartest things that was ever uttered.
The DEMocRAr-STAR is turning out some
beautiful Job Printing every day at hard times
prices.
Some newspaper subscribers are mighty
pcnurious. Still they like to read their local
paper without it costing them anything.
The merchant who don't advertise in the
DEMoCRAT-STAR is the loser. He does not
invite customers to buy from him.
Several "racket stores" of this State have
failed recently. These stores buy for cash
and sell for cash and it is a mystery to us why
they fail.
There are people who can make a living by
working the prejudices of people against 9TH
ers and in favor of themselves but it's a poor
living.
The highest degree of moral culture is
reached when one can hear the whisper Of his
own conscience above the clamor of thous-
and tongues.
The world conforms to every mans thought.
The cold and suspicious will find nothing but
deceit but he that takes humanity to his
heart will find it faithful.
The boy or girl who spends evenings on the
street is apt to become cipher in life. It
takes moral fibre to stand the test Of life. Poor
place to get it on the street.
The Picayune says "The Schneider who
murders people and tries to think he is crazy
should have his name changed out of respect
to the dog Schneider, who had character and
gratitude" We think so, too, because our
dog Snyder is like Rip Van Wrinkles.
The pictures drawn in our minds are laid on
in fading coors, and it not sometimes refresh
ed vanish and disappear.
In all great arts, as in trees, II is the height
that charms us we care nothing for the roots
or trunks, vet it could not be without the aid
Of these.
The slowest street car service in the coun-
try is at Council Grove, Kansas, where a car
rusted fast to the rails while on its way to the
station.
Mary had little lamb,
She got it very cheap,
For it had been, ere it was served,
A very aged sheep.
The new State of Utah has sent two Repub-
lcans to the United States Senate. One Of
them is a son of the Mormon leader, Cannon.
The Grown Princess Stephanie, OF Austria,
has taken enthusiastically to the bicycle, and
proposes to tour England awhcel next sum
mcr.
A medical writer says that seas Of mineral
water, and such things, have been poured into
unoifendng stomachs to cure headanches,
which are due solely to the abuse of the eyes.
A woman of Elk Rapids, Mich, who has
gray horse, said she was tired of hearing re-
marks about red headed women, so she got
some dye stuff aud colored her horse bright
cardinal red
Rev. T. B. Hargrove dropped dead in his
pulpit at Coldwater, Miss, last Sunday. He
was repeating the words, "Beleve in the Lord
Jesus Christ and ye shall be saved" As he
uttered the last word he exclaimed, "Oh y
and turned partly about and fell.
In many parts of England and Scotland it is
still customary, as 1t has been for many cent
urles for young men and women to regard
their valentine the first person of the opposite
sex whom their eyes behold on the morning Of
st. Valentines day, and they haze the right
"a claim the said valentine with a kiss which
he Is or she in honor bound to accord withous
rsmonstrancs Of any kind.