The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1896-05-22
Editorial and Otherwise.
Odditv is not originality.

4 The favorite gown is the one that is frs
2 worn out.
!: Henry Wa,terson, of the Courier-J Journal i
/, in Switzerland
The man who is failure seldom claims t,
Z be a self-madc man.
1t is n fact and parodox that the need,
5 never have the "dough.'
. Honesty is the best policy, but not alway.
. the winning policy.
The eleventh commandment should read as
: f.liows: Mind yaur own business"
A boltcr is all right enough in -four mill
bu. not in party.
Ben Harrison is right where the Office can
find him without any trouble.
The bachelor girl is the glrl who failed to
capture a bachelor.
Spectaces were first used in the latter part
of the thirteenth century.
The candid friend all too frequently degen-
crates into the disagreeahe one.
A good advertisement in good paper like
the DEMOCRATS STAR will always pay.
A woman can give fvc-ccnt tip where
man would be afraid to offer quarter.
Charity cannot cover sins as fast as the Cos
sips can invent them.
There is a law prohibiting profane language
on the streets.
A dollar saved is dollar somebody else will
probably spend
The road to happiness is the plcasantcst
part of the journey.
Cupid shoots his strongest arrow nowadays
at the pocket book.
No man ever marries but some woman is
convinced he was "captured."
People usually pick out their own tempta-
tions.
The increase of knowledge increases the
need of it.
Many evening gowns designed for seashore
wear are OF white crepun.
No man can reap everything lie sows, or
sows everything he reaps.
| Every man determines his own destiny:
every man is as good as he wants to be.
When woman puts ''two and two together"
the result is always more than four.
The new liquor law of New York prohibits
! the giving away of lunches with drinks.
When q woman is tempted to tell the truth
she always stops to think what people will say.
Why is it that when boy is well-brhaved
people always say he Is a credit to his mother.
The woman who marres the man of her
choice frequently has occasion to wonder at
her poor taste.
The mannish girl is now parting her hair at
the side, while the wonanish boy is parting his
in the middle.
The reduction in crcpons brings very desira-
BILE skirts within the reach of most moderate
purses.
Vivid green shirts for men may be very
grape vine worms.
Cashmere gowns are being made mp cxten-
sisely and as trimmed with hnwered ribbon
and lace are very artistic.
New Orleans States: "Onc of the freaks of
nature is pony with tail sixteen feet long"
This is evidently case of lG to |.
St. Paul is to have building twenty i've
stories high. 1t is now in order for Minneap-
oils to make some nyidious remarks.
At the present time Cuba is in more hor-
rbIe condition than Armenia, and the Span
iards are worse than the Turks.
Zimmerman, the famous cycler, saws that a
wheelman who does net sit up straight, does
not know how to ride Wheel
Mckinley beat Cullom in his own State,
Illinois, and the latter has withdrawn. Me-
knley will be nominated on the first ballot.
James Fairly, of Mississippi, was among the
recent graduates from the medical school of
Columbian University, Washington, D. G.
Vicksburg is going to make strong fight
to secure the establishment of the South's
Battle Abbey in that city.
A Frenchwoman who died recently, be-
queathed the sum of $4,000 francs as an an
nual income to the physician who will discover
a cure for consumption.
A block of ice filed and surrounded with
wood vocts and ferns, makes lovely table
20 N ntnr- M at II
The Meridian police made raid upon the
blind tigers a few days ago and succeeded in
catching five. Four Of them were tried and
convicted immediately and fined $50 each.
The Mckinley band wagon is getting big
load aboard, but the old vehicle is strong, and
will probably last until it gets to st. Louis.
General Maceo is capturing the Spanish
ammunition as fast rs it is sent out into the {
country. Weyer seems to be Maceo's COM
The Iowa girl who is said to be able to To- /
cate gold, silver and lead buried 200 feet be- ,
low the the surface of the earth, has the
proper qualifications for queen Of mining
country.
The Dallas News is following in thc foot
steps of Dickens when it says; "A wife has
no business sewing FOR the heather when her
husband wears heavy long-tailed coat in
summer to avoid embarrassment" I
The London Statist advises English invest :
,rs to leave American securities alone, owing
% the prospect Of heavy gold shipments from '
New York and the financial uncertainty at I