The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1896-08-14
Editorial and Otherwise,

WAYS kC' 'Ue WIVES
The Federal government is not merely an
ult,mstum factory.
Fifty million dollars are spent annually it
Europe for bicycles.
A Democratic victory will rebound to the
good Of all the people.
Don't Judge a man by his clnthes-he may
be wearing his brothers.
The interest in base ball has given way tc
the interest in politics.
Girls may lead a man to church, but they
can't make him religious.
The man who sw,ndles the newspaper man
is a thief Of the deepest dye.
An Arkansas bully whipped a stranger be.
| cause he wore side whiskers.
BY nature hates change, which accounts for
the opposition to free silver.
II you must confde in some one confde in
Yourself, aud it is hardly safe then.
The very essence Of Christianity lies in a
strict obsei vance of the golden rule.
The narrow path Of righteousness is broad
enough to accommodate the travel.
The victor never tells why. It is only the
loser who has reasons for his defeat.
Jonah's experience with the whale is proof
that You can't keep good man down.
The different countries of the world now use
l3, 400 different kinds Of postage stamps.
One Of the trues. marks Of an honest man
is that he has faith in his fellow-men.
This is the time when the shirt of the candi-
date shrinks, and 50 does his pocketbook.
A great tidal wave on the coast of China
last week drowned four thousand people.
Base ball pitchers, letter carriers and
preachers are all judged by their delivery.
Some men think they have great wilIpower,
because they never had occasion To try it.
II all the devils were cast out Of some peo-
pie they would Look like walking skeletons.
Although money is close, some voters will
find It close enough to reach on election day.
Talk about yourself when with other people.
They will talk about you when you are gone.
I. Heaven sends its rains on the just, but the
unjust are generally able TO borrow or steal an
umbrella.
II takes money to go into politics-if YOU
would be upheld, YOU must be willing to be
held up.
When beauty draws us by a single hair, she
has probably caught it in the button.hole OF
our coat.
The happcst moment in mans life should
be when he is out of debt and ont Of love at
the same time.
It is rumercd that Queen Victoria will soon
rclire from the English throne in favor of the
Prince Of Wales.
When YOU undertake to Agh, the devil with
fire, don't forget to take into account the
amount of ammunition he has.
Railway mail clerks have been officially
warned to steer clear Of an active participa-
ton in politics this year.
What a nice place to live in this world would
be if women were all as good as they look, and
men were all as good as they seem.
II all the men who expect to 60 to Heaven
do 60, it will be a mighty depressing place for
some Of us who slip in accidentally.
He who wishes to become great is desirous
Of becoming So at once, but he who desires to
become good is willing to wait till tomorrow
Meat is now being cured BY forcing the
brine into it by hydraulic pressure, thus ac-
comtishing in twenty seconds what usually
requires several weeks.
A New York paper asserts that a man in
that State has died from being pccked by a
hen. We do not believe it. There are too
many henpecked men living.
This is pleasant for the ladies', but how do
the lords Of creation feel to hear that there are
900 more men than women in the popula.
iion Of the United States.
"Pcacock tea" is what the function Is called
held after the English drawing rooms. Al
these the ladies' presented gather to spread
their trains and display their brilliant plum
age.
An old man named Pollock, in one Of the
Louisiana parishes, put p,'ison in his water
melons to kill whoever was stealing from him.
He went out next morning and found two Of
his sons and three Of his brothers boys dead
in the patch.
In London women make regular business
Of going from house to house cleansing bicy.
ces and keeping them in order. II is said
they derive a comfortable revenue from their
work, and are absolute luxuries to the lovers
Of steel steeds.
American girls travelling abroad are rebell-
ing against being over.chapcroned. They in
sist that enough Of thing is enough, and too
much surveillance is not to be endured by
Young women born under the Stars and
Stripes.
The girls are running away with the poor
fellow nowadays. With the bicycle girl, the
golf girl, the tennis girl, the seaside g'rl, the
fishing girl, the riding glrl, the rowing girl,
the football girl, the fencing g'rl, the noun.
tain climbing girl, the graduate girl, the new
girl and the old summer girl, the youth Of to-
day lives iu q usver-ending quaudary.